GREENSBORO, N.C. – In their final contest of March, the Guilford College women's lacrosse team (3-7, 0-3 ODAC) was unable to keep pace with Bridgewater College (7-4, 3-2 ODAC), dropping their Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) showdown, 18-5, at Appenzeller Field in the Armfield Athletic Center on Saturday afternoon.

GC was outshot 39-12 and 22-6 in looks on frame. The draw control margin was not out-of-hand at 15-11, but BC held a sizable advantage collecting ground balls, 21-11, and limited good scoring chances for the Quakers all game.

Facing 39 shots, Sammy Keene (Greensboro, N.C.) made nine saves but permitted 18 goals and also corralled two ground balls. She took the loss to drop to 2-4.

Rachel Robinson went the first half of play for the Eagles allowing five goals against three saves but got the win to improve to 5-3. Maisen Jenkins finished things off for the guests, saving the two shots she faced.

Emma Garland (Hampstead, N.C.) had a fine day leading the Guilford offense with two goals and two assists on top of two ground balls and two caused turnovers. Riley Gravley (Greensboro, N.C.) was active on the draw with a team-high five controls. Maggie Hartnett (Oxford, Maine), Kaylee Carr (Plant City, Fla.) and Carm DeFeo (Shelton, Conn.) each had singular tallies as well.

It was a career-performance from Paige Mayers who netted a career-high seven goals to go with three assists for the guests, adding seven draw controls and four ground balls in a superb all-around showing. Paige Overeem and Jenna Entsminger each recorded a hat trick while Caris Cianelli and Carly Gardill contributed a pair of goals apiece as well.

The Eagles opened the scoring 80 seconds in as Mayers found the back of the net, but GC swiftly responded. After a bad pass, Garland corralled the loose ball to retain possession beyond the arch and followed that up with a really quality find, with a longer feed into the heart of the defense to Harnett who went low-right side to score. Unfortunately, BC would run it up after that seven-straight from Entsminger, Overeem on the free-position, Mayers on the free-position, Overeem on the free-position again, Grace Pietro, Entsminger, and finally Mayers' third of the game already. GC got one back ahead of the horn with Garland collecting the ball on another broken play and sending a cross-crease pass to Carr who spun and went low and virtually between the legs of Robinson for the score to make it 8-2 after one.

Bridgewater scored three-straight to open the second before DeFeo got on the board for the Quakers making a nice move on a defender and then went mid-left side to score on the free-position off the right wing. The Eagles got it to running clock temporarily with a pair of goals, but GC responded with two of their own, both from Garland. Her first was on a free-position from straight-away, just beating the defenders to the spot and going low-middle for the score. Her second saw her cutting across the face of the keeper and catching a pinpoint pass from Gravley before going middle-left to score and bring the tallies to 13-5 at the half.

Neither squad would get on the board in the third as the defenses settled in, but the Eagles put it away for good in the fourth with five unanswered to make the final score, 18-5.

The Quakers host another ODAC foe, Roanoke College, in Greensboro next on Wednesday, April 2 at 6:30 PM at Appenzeller Field.

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