TACOMA, Wash. – A streak of six unanswered goals midway through the first half provided a cushion that was too much for host University of Puget Sound to overcome in Whitman College's 13-8 Northwest Conference women's lacrosse victory Sunday afternoon at the Loggers' East Field.

The Whitties (3-8, 3-2 NWC) picked up goals from three different players during the 13-minute, 6-0 run that lifted the visitors from a 2-1 deficit into a 7-2 advantage over UPS (1-10, 1-4). Lindsay Schwartz, Anna Melville and Sam Sheffer each scored twice for Whitman during the streak.

Schwartz notched a game-high six goals, pushing her league-leading season total to 47, and added a game-best five caused turnovers to spark the Whitman attack and its transitional play. Melville added two other goals to finish with a single-game career-best four while adding an assist on Whitman's first goal of the game, a Schwartz tally 10 minutes into the opening half.

Neither team was able to gain the early advantage in the contest. It wasn't until just past six minutes in that the scoreboard became active as the Loggers' Callie Holgate scored unassisted to provide the home team with a 1-0 lead.

Schwartz evened things up four minutes later, burying a shot past UPS goalkeeper Leah Stromberg off a feed from Melville.

The Loggers were able to jump back into the lead at the 18:43 mark but three minutes later Schwartz would score an unassisted goal that would spark the Whitman attack. The next four draw controls would go Whitman's way, with Schwartz earning three of the four, allowing the attack to build pressure on the Logger defense and Stromberg who was under siege during the streak.

Their 7-2 lead looked safe, especially the way the Whitties were playing, but UPS was able to respond with two goals -- the second on a free-position chance with one second remaining -- to cut its deficit to 7-4 at the halftime break.

Like in the first half, though, Whitman found a rhythm in its attack and opened second-half action with a three-goal spurt, getting two from Melville and one from Nina Henelsmith to grow its lead to 10-4 less than seven minutes into the second frame. The Loggers would out score Whitman 4-3 over the remaining 23 minutes but the advantage Whitman had built from its 6-0 and 3-0 runs had essentially decided the outcome.

Whitman won the battle at ground level scooping up 29 ground balls, led by Henelsmith's game-best six, to UPS' 27, and also racked up an 11-8 edge on draw controls to command possession time.

Between the pipes starter Savannah McNichol earned the win with a pair of first-half saves, but after taking over to start the second half Kate Whittingham accumulated eight saves in just 30 minutes to fall just a bit shy of Stromberg's total of 12 saves for the Loggers over the entire 60 minutes of game time.

Whitman's season, only its second in program history, concludes Saturday, April 23 and Sunday, April 24 at home with visits from Linfield College and Pacific (Ore.) University, respectively. Both games are slated for noon starts at the Whitman Athletic Fields.