UNC Women’s Lacrosse 2025-2026
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And it looked like she was bumped into the crease by the NW player.
I would actually like the second one explained more. The Northwestern player made an unnatural move to get in the way. Even with that, i’m not even sure it made contact and it certainly wasn’t an out of control play. Given where the NW girl was, Godine made an awesome play and it somehow cost us the game
2 things - surprised there were 0 shooting space calls and only a couple of FPS. Much different from previous games.
Wish Chloe would play more up top instead of behind. She could have dodged more and maybe drawn some shooting space calls.
Wish Chloe would play more up top instead of behind. She could have dodged more and maybe drawn some shooting space calls.
In real time, there was nothing that gave me pause as to this being a good goal, but as soon as I saw the officials huddled together I knew they were cooking up some BS.
A completely inexplicable, indefensible call, especially given the stakes.
Question to those who watch women's lax regularly.
How many times this season have you seen a goal overturned? Is it common? And how often does one overturned and a penalty tacked on?
SECTION 13. Goal Circle Fouls: Outside of the goalkeeper, one of the following criteria must be met for a player to enter, or to have any portion of their body or stick on or over, the goal circle at any time:
a. On a shot, the shooter may follow through with their stick over the goal circle; however, the shooter’s feet must not touch the goal circle. The shooting motion must be initiated from outside the goal circle.
yhe key phrase here is “at any time” so technically, that includes after the shot is made and goes is the net.
but you don’t often see a goal circle violattion this long after a made goal. And she was pushed from behind.
conversely, NW scored their last goal on a much clearer circle violation, but no whistles nor review.
Goal overturned is pretty common. Probably at least one a game on average for circle violation, stick violation or dangerous follow-through. Charging sometimes too though that is more rare.
dangerous follow through is by definition a card, so that is the normal outcome.
but the two overturned this game were bad calls. Plain and simple. And the one not overturned on NW also a bad call. Three goal Swing on the face of it, and even more when you consider that NW scored on the yellow card.
Well. my fears came to life yesterday. I was afraid that NW would be given home cooking my the referees and yest it did happened on those three clips. Which erased 3 goals. This is what I stated about a team playing the national championship game in their own stadium. They made sure that NW won the game IMO. Also, I am going to go ahead and say it now. Chloe tied Madison Taylor for the most goals scored ever in a single season, and she did it as a sophomore and not a junior like MT. I got this feeling that the committee is going to give the Tewaaraton Award to MT when we all know that CH is the best player in women's college lacrosse. Which is another bias IMO.
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Let’s be mad at the rules, not the refs (except for Godine’s goal - but the rules for that one too), I agree they took away the game, but it’s because the rule book is the way it is
Disagree. The rules exist as they are because women play the sport with near zero protective equipment. You can’t be swinging your stick without care for who you hit and goalies are protected in tons of sports.
the interpretation was the failure here. No different than basketball or football where the rules are pretty solid but you don’t want refs deciding the game.
To be clear I am not a ref hater. It is a really hard job and fans demonizing refs only discourage competent people from joining or staying in the profession. That is a serious problem across sports. We get the benefit of replays in super slomo and 10 angles to see a call. Mistakes will happen as long as humans are making judgement calls.
but the fact is, these multiple calls were missed in this game and it arguably decided a championship. All in one teams favor. And all of them either were reviewed or could have been. That is a shame.
here are Levy’s comments on the matter:
Posting these just to show it is not our biased fan opinion; it is trending across the lacrosse media:
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Holy Moley, I did not realize that Gresham played on a torn ACL. That is insane commitment to the team and she played well 
Chloe Humphrey was named 2026 NCAA D1 most Outstanding Player today.
The problem is the inconsistency even with the benefit of review. When NW played Colorado, MT hit a Colorado player in the head on a shot follow through. The refs looked at replays and did not give her a card (she would have been ejected for a 2nd yellow card) and Colorado would have been a player up for 2 minutes with a chance to win in OT. Comparing that to the card given to Godine shows the ridiculous inconsistency. Godine did not hit the defender and showed tremendous control on her follow through.
Just inexcusable.
Just inexcusable.