MINNEAPOLIS -- Outscoring the hosts by a 7-3 margin in the second half, Aurora University scored an 11-6 victory over Augsburg University in a battle of Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference playoff contenders on Friday afternoon at Edor Nelson Field.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Aurora (Ill.) 11, Augsburg 6
LOCATION: Edor Nelson Field, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 7-6 overall (7-3 MWLC), Aurora 11-4 overall (10-1 MWLC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Augsburg trailed Aurora 4-3 at halftime, but the Spartans scored two straight goals to open the second half, then scored the last four goals of the game in the final 10 minutes of play to pull away from the Auggies.
• Allie Tuccitto (SO, Rosemount, Minn./Eastview HS) and Mikayla Jones (JR, Oak Park Heights, Minn./B.E. Emerson Prep HS) scored two goals apiece for the Auggies, with Megan Furlong (SO, Forest Lake, Minn./Forest Lake HS) and Mikayla Knudson (JR, Zimmerman, Minn./Elk River HS) adding the other Augsburg goals.
• Tuccitto added a ground ball and two caused turnovers, and Jones had a draw control for the Auggies in the game.
• Knudson contributed four ground balls, three caused turnovers and a draw control, while Annika Hegrenes (JR, Maplewood, Minn./Concordia Academy HS) had three ground balls and three caused turnovers.
• Christina Nelson (SR, Bloomington, Minn./Kennedy HS) claimed eight caused turnovers, seven ground balls and four draw controls to lead the Auggie defense, while McKenna Ellena (SO, Wales, Wis./Kettle Moraine HS) had two assists, five ground balls and five caused turnovers. Hannah Valen (JR, Owatonna, Minn./Owatonna HS) and Hannah Mincy (FY, Des Moines, Iowa/Urbandale HS) had two ground balls and two caused turnovers each, with Mincy contributing an assist, and Kassie Diaz (SR, Bloomington, Minn./Kennedy HS) had two ground balls and a caused turnover.
• Goalie Maddie Seykora (SO, Owatonna, Minn./Owatonna HS) had 10 saves, five ground balls and two caused turnovers in the game.
• The game was an evenly matched affair statistically. Aurora outshot Augsburg by a 29-23 margin. Both teams had 32 ground balls. Aurora  had 10 draw controls to Augsburg's nine, and Augsburg had 25 successful clears to Aurora's 24.

FOR THE FOES
• Kristina Krokosz scored three of her four goals in the second half to lead Aurora, adding two caused turnovers, two draw controls and four ground balls.
• Margaret Flanagan scored two goals with an assist, three caused turnovers and five ground balls. Marina Kanner had a goal and assist, with two caused turnovers and three ground balls, and Claire Carlson had a goal with eight draw controls and two caused turnovers.
• Reilly Armstrong had nine saves in goal for the Spartans.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg hosts Benedictine (Ill.) in MWLC action on Saturday (4/20) at 9 a.m. at Edor Nelson Field.
• Aurora travels to face Hamline in an MWLC game on Saturday at 12 p.m.