FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – Venturing across the state, the Guilford College women's lacrosse team (1-4, 0-1 ODAC) battled Methodist University (1-3, 0-0 USA South) on Thursday evening, falling 18-3 in nonconference action at Monarch Stadium.
The Monarchs outshot the Quakers 45-12 on the night, among them a 38-9 edge in shots on target. GC's Achilles heel was once again the clearance game, finishing just 10-of-27 while the hosts went 12-for-13 and also committed just 18 turnovers to Guilford's 28.
Sammy Keene (Greensboro, N.C.) fell to 0-1 in goal for Guilford although she performed admirably against the 38 shots on target that she faced, making 20 stops against the 18 goals permitted. Ashley Fuentes went the initial 30:00 minutes in net for MU, facing five shots on target and making four saves against a single goal allowed to get credit for the win an improve to 2-3. Victorianna Murray relieved her for the second half and allowed two goals with two saves for the hosts.
Kylie Wood (Greensboro, N.C.),
Emma Garland (Hampstead, N.C.), and
Maggie Hartnett (Oxford, Maine) all scored for the Quakers in this contest. Hartnett paced all players with six groundballs while also causing a pair of turnovers. Garland and
Riley Gravley (Greensboro, N.C.) finished tied for the team lead with three draw controls each.
Kaitlyn Coleman was the top-contributor for the home team, scoring four goals and assisting on one other while securing five groundballs, tied for the team-lead. Kennedy Martin was all over the place with a goal while also leading all players in assists, with four, caused turnovers, with seven, and draw controls, with six. Erika Henry pitched in a hat trick and an assist while Maggie Hagler, Brooke Murrell, Rylie Sturgill, and Layla Wiesenfeld all contributed two goals apiece. Mikayla Ramos had a goal and three assists for Methodist.
The Quakers kept MU at bay early with the game remaining scoreless through the first four-and-a-half minutes before Henry broke the ice off a Hagler feed. Two minutes later, Ramos found paydirt for the hosts before GC responded with Wood not attacking but rotating in front of the cage on a free-position chance and going top-shelf for her third goal of the season. MU did get the final tally of the frame with Coleman scoring on the man-disadvantage with 21 seconds left, but Guilford was in it with the score 3-1.
Unfortunately, the Monarchs created distance in the second stanza. Coleman scored her second-straight to open the quarter before Wiesenfeld, Hagler on a free-position, Martin, Sturgill, Coleman again, and Hagler on a man-up chance got the hosts to double-digits with a 10-1 lead at the half.
Wiesenfeld's second goal of the game just 17 seconds into the third got the game into running clock, and unfortunately, the contest would not get under that threshold the rest of the way. Coleman would net her fourth goal, Henry would score on the man-advantage then again on a free position. Garland would get GC on the board again with her fourth goal of the year, catching and spinning at the top of the crease before going to the bottom-right for the score but Stugill almost immediately countered for the hosts to make the score 15-2 through three.
Opening the fourth, Hartnett found paydirt, getting an early free position look and firing it into the bottom-left corner of the twine for her fourth goal. MU countered with a pair of Murrell tallies on free position opportunities before Macey Blackburn scored on a man-up chance to finalize the score at 18-3.
The Quakers have a little over a week off before hosting Pfeiffer next for a late morning clash on Saturday, March 8
th. First draw is set for 11:00 AM.
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