DENVER, Colo. - Facing their second top-15 team in their inaugural NCAA Division II women's lacrosse season, Concordia-St. Paul (8-6) fell 21-3 on the road to #15 Regis University (10-1) on Wednesday afternoon at Regis Lacrosse Field.

The Golden Bears play in their 2017 inaugural season road finale on Friday with a 5 p.m. (CT), 4 p.m. (MT) draw at CSU-Pueblo. A win on Friday secures a winning campaign in year one, as well as a winning road record for CSP.

Concordia faced an opponent poised in ball control with an aggressive defense that made a Golden Bear comeback extremely difficult in the Rocky Mountain altitude. The Rangers scored first just over a minute into play with CSP keeping the nationally-strong program mostly quiet in the opening minutes. Regis extended the lead to 2-0 just over four minutes in and put in a pair of goals in the seventh minute with another in the eighth to pull ahead 5-0.

Junior Kallie LaValle scored her 14th goal of the year on a free position shot in the 10th minute to keep CSP in the game. Freshman Maddie Hentges scored a pair of goals, her 31st and 32nd of the year to make it 8-2 and 11-3 before Regis closed out the half with three straight.

In the second half, Concordia continued to press, visibly competed hard until the closing seconds using their team speed, athleticism and perseverance to run with the Rangers for 60 minutes.

But Regis was able to force 24 turnovers, won 16 of the 24 draw controls and went 12-14 on clears including 8-8 in the first half. Meanwhile, Regis held CSP to 6-10 on clears in the first half and 10-16 for the game to keep the Bears from setting up the attack.

It all added up to a 36-7 shot margin for the Rangers along with a 22-12 margin in ground balls.

Erin Todd led Regis with four goals while Sarah Myres had a pair of goals and five assists for a team-high seven points.

In the net, freshman Katie Lottsfeldt registered six more saves to push her season total to 113, also adding four ground balls in the game to give her 67 on the year.

Defensively, freshman Brooke Genzler had three ground balls and a team-high two caused turnovers, pushing her totals to 26 and 29, respectively.

Freshman Kailey Heinl led the team by gaining three draw controls.