Jam Vertner scored a career-high four goals for her fourth career hat trick to lead the Fort Lewis College women’s lacrosse team to a 20-2 win over Colorado State University-Pueblo on Sunday afternoon at Ray Dennison Memorial Field.

It was FLC’s final conference game of the season. With the Skyhawks’ 4-2 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference record, they will be the No. 3 seed in the RMAC Tournament, which will be hosted by Regis University on May 2-3.

The Skyhawks’ defense held the ThunderWolves to four shots in each half. Ally Guerrero started the game in goal to post her third win of the season after making one save. Brie Walker closed out the game over the final 30 minutes between the posts, making two saves.

Ellie Carpenter also had a hat trick for FLC, scoring two goals in the first half. Three of Vertner’s goals also came in the first half.

Fort Lewis scored the first nine goals of the game. Carpenter tallied the first goal of the game at 26:53, followed by a Sara McMahon goal.

Nikki Fry added back-to-back goals within four minutes before Rebecca Miller scored a goal while FLC was down a player.

Vertner added another man-down goal one minute later from a free-position shot, and Lauren Appenzeller, Carpenter, and Brooke Galle also found the back of the net before CSU-Pueblo got on the board with 8:57 left in the first half.

Vertner, Megan Longtain, and Appenzeller combined for the final four goals of the first half to give FLC a 13-1 lead.

Vertner had a game-high six points (four goals, two assists). Fry, McMahon, Galley and Appenzeller each tallied two goals as six Skyhawks recorded multiple goals. McMahon had a game-high eight shots and Longtain and Katlyne Duffey posted three ground balls each.

Fort Lewis totaled 33 shots to CSU-Pueblo’s eight. Fort Lewis scooped up 21 ground balls and won 15 of 24 draw controls.

The Skyhawks will play their final regular-season game at home at 1 p.m. Friday against Adams State University.

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