Claremont, Calif. - Sallie Marx won the draw control to start the third overtime and fed Aubrey Douglass for the game-winner 14 seconds in as the Pomona-Pitzer Women's Lacrosse team outlasted Redlands 7-6 in triple overtime in the SCIAC Championship Tournament semifinals on Saturday night. 

(pictured: Sagehens celebrate the winning goal from No. 24 Douglass)

The win improves Pomona-Pitzer's record to 13-3 overall and 10-1 in the SCIAC, and clinches the conference championship even before next weekend's tournament finals against Occidental (Saturday, time TBA). The Sagehens won the regular season by three games and the conference determines its champion based on a combination of regular season and tournament results, giving Pomona-Pitzer too large of a lead heading into the finals. Redlands falls to 10-8 overall and 6-6 in the conference with the loss.

Both goalies came up big to get the game to its third overtime. Gigja Hollyday stopped a shot from Pomona-Pitzer midfielder Ally McLaughlin with less than 30 seconds left in regulation to keep the score tied 6-6. At the end of the first six-minute overtime, Redlands got two free position attempts from straight on, but sophomore Gaby Fukumura stopped both of them to force the game into a second extra session.

Dulce Moll missed just inches wide of the left post for Redlands at the end of the first three-minute segment of the second overtime, and then Douglass had a chance off the draw control to start the second segment, but missed just wide as well off a feed from McLaughlin, who had won the draw. Redlands then forced a turnover and called timeout with 21 seconds left, but were unable to get off a shot before the horn, sending the game to a third extra session.

Marx then won the draw control in traffic along the right side and turned the corner around the Redlands defense. She found Douglass leaking in unmarked up the middle and lobbed a pass in front over the top of several players. Douglass made the catch, dropped her stick to the right, and boucned a shot past Hollyday in close just 14 seconds into the third overtime to give Pomona-Pitzer the win.

Redlands was in good shape to win in regulation after taking a 6-4 lead, but Douglass forced a turnover and fed Hannah Christenson for a goal to cut it to 6-5, and then with time winding down, Christenson intercepted a pass at the top of Pomona-Pitzer's offensive box and fed McLaughlin along the left side, who broke in and tied the score with just 3:30 left.

Katie Savino won the ensuing draw and Pomona-Pitzer ran the clock down to 30 seconds before Hollyday stopped a shot in close from McLaughlin. After Redlands cleared and called timeout with nine seconds left, Emily Dalrymple tried a shot from distance at the buzzer that Fukumura saved.

Fukumura finished with seven saves for the Sagehens, but three came on shots that would have been game-winners. Hollyday had eight for Redlands. Rebecca Long had three goals for Pomona-Pitzer and Stephanie Garrett had three for the Bulldogs to lead all scorers.

Pomona-Pitzer will play Occidental for the SCIAC Tournament title on Saturday at home at 7 p.m., although the Sagehens will enter that game knowing that they are already the official league champion for the first time in their young history.