Box Score LEXINGTON, Va. – The Guilford College women's soccer team concluded their regular season falling to Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) foe No. 9 Washington & Lee University, 3-0, at Watt Field on Saturday afternoon.
Wrapping up their regular season slate, the Quakers finish at 12-4-2 on the fall and 6-3-1 in conference play. Needing a win to securing hosting privileges, they instead lock in as the fifth seed and will travel to Randolph-Macon College for the ODAC Tournament on Tuesday. For the Generals, they had already secured the league's regular season title, but now complete conference play unblemished at 10-0-0, and 15-1-1 overall.
Facing a season-highs of 33 total shots with 15 on goal across the first 86 minutes,
Ady Franken (Peoria, Ill.) performed admirably, but ultimately surrendered three tallies against 12 saves, the most she has had to make in ODAC play this season, to fall to 10-4-2.
Madison Musgrave (Lexington, N.C.) played three minutes of mop-up duty, making a pair of saves on the two shots sent her way. Abby Groff played all 90 minutes for W&L and did not face of shot on goal among the three Quaker attempts, completing league play facing a mere nine shots on target.
Sarah Zimmerman posted a brace for the Generals, netting the game-winner among her pair of tallies. Her sister, Elizabeth Zimmerman contributed with one of her own. Ann Riley Huber added a pair of assists as well for the home team. Guilford mustered just a trio of shots, with
Kylee Berry (Kernersville, N.C.),
Karly Griffin (Fort Mill, S.C.), and
Lily Brown (Boone, N.C.) each getting one off.
Under pressure virtually from the first touch, Washington & Lee commanded the tempo, quickly accumulating nine shots, six on goal, and seven corner kicks over the course of the first 37 minutes of play. Junior captain Sarah Zimmerman would finally break through with an unassisted goal in the 38
th minute of play to give the hosts the advantage.
For the remainder of the first half, and then into the second stanza, Guilford would hang on defensively, permitting shots but not scores. However, they could only contain the Generals' ODAC-best offensive attack for so long as Elizabeth Zimmerman struck for W&L in the 73
rd minute of play, assisted by Huber.
Just a few minutes later, Huber and Avery Hannah set up Sarah Zimmerman's second tally of the afternoon in the 77
th minute, bringing the final score to 3-0.
The Quakers permitted season-highs of 35 shots and 17 on frame, with both marks far exceeding any number they had allowed in a conference game to this point. Offensively, their three shots were also a season-low as they were held without a shot on frame for just the second time all season.
No matter the result, Guilford is ODAC Tournament bound for the third-consecutive season, this year as the fifth seed. They will travel to Randolph-Macon College who is now locked in as the four seed with the two squads playing on Tuesday. Start time has yet to be announced.
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