Mercer Island’s Elizabeth Bachman scored her third goal of a hat trick with 1:09 remaining in the game to help Mercer Island lacrosse outlast Bellevue East 20-16 in a girls Division II lacrosse win at Islander Stadium. Sarah Drucker scored six goals in the season-opening win for Mercer Island (1-0), which took a 12-8 lead into the intermission.

Bellevue (0-1) battled back to tie the game at 16-16 with an Elizabeth Soffey goal with three minutes remaining before Bachman scored the go-ahead goal.