DANVILLE, Va. – Concluding their 2025 season, the Guilford College women's lacrosse team (5-12, 2-8 ODAC) was defeated, 18-6, by Averett University (5-6, 4-6 ODAC) on Wednesday evening at Daly Field at Frank R. Campbell Stadium.
The Cougars finished with a 20-11 advantage on groundballs, but more significantly held onto the ball, with GC committing more turnovers, 21-14, and controlling the possession allowed them to control the game, outshooting GC 40-22 and 33-18 on frame. The Quakers were also outdone on the draw, 15-12.
Sammy Keene (Greensboro, N.C.) finishes the season with a 4-9 mark as net-tender for Guilford after making 15 saves against 18 goals allowed on the night.
Caitlin Alperstein made a dozen stops against six scores conceded for the home team, seeing her record improve to 6-6 in goal.
Riley Gravley (Greensboro, N.C.) provided most of the Quaker offense in this one, scoring four goals herself while assisting on another. She also seized a game-high five draw controls.
Maggie Hartnett (Hebron, Maine) did score once late, but was more impactful defensively with four caused turnovers and five groundballs.
Kylie Wood (Greensboro, N.C.) scored the other GC goal, but outside of that, the team was quiet.
Carm DeFeo (Shelton, Conn.) pitched in a trio of draw controls while
Emma Garland (Hampstead, N.C.) has two.
It was a dominant game for Faith Bowlin as she netted more than half of the goals for Averett on the night, with ten by herself along with four draw controls. Cayden Holdsworth scored a hat trick to go with three DCs while Lisanne Guiaux had a well-rounded game with three goals, two assists, and five caused turnovers. Gianna Minafo was the primary distributor with four assists and a goal of her own along with four draw controls for the hosts.
Averett opened the scoring 44 seconds in when Bowlin netted her 50
th goal of the season before Holdsworth added one a few minutes later. Gravley got Guilford on the board at around the five-and-a-half-minute mark, earning a free-position on the left wing and going low on the strong side before she evened things less than a minute thereafter. Working from behind the net, she had room to maneuver on a virtual isolation play, and eventually found a shot against the defender, going top-left to score the equalizer. Unfortunately, the Cougars took the lead back almost immediately with Bowlin scoring a free-position tally just eight seconds after to grant them a 3-2 lead they would never relinquish through one quarter.
The hosts swiftly moved to widen their advantage with goals from Guiaux, Holdsworth, and a pair from Bowlin, the second on the man-down in the second quarter. Gravley got one back at around 5:30 again, with her second free-position tally of the game. Her chance started deep on the right wing, creating a sharp angle, but she drove, flashed across the keeper, and went bottom weak side to score. Brianna Sams countered, though then Bowlin tacked on another to make the score 9-3 at the half.
Bowlin kept up her superb offensive showing with her sixth goal of the game off a Minafo assist 96 seconds out of the break before duplicating the sequence under two minutes later as the hosts just kept on piling it on. Holdsworth netted one in a man-down situation then Bowlin got the game to running clock, at least for a while, with her eighth tally as she continued to rack up the goals. Gravley finally slowed the bleeding with a free-position goal from straight-away with a shot into the top-left, but the score through three was 14-4 in favor of the home team.
Kylie Wood (Greensboro, N.C.) got one back for Guilford but Guiaux responded for AU, netting the next two tallies and then Minafo got in on the fun for Averett. Hartnett made sure to not finish her final collegiate game goal-less, scoring with just over three minutes remaining before Bowlin put a bow on things, bringing the final score to 18-6.
This concludes the season for the Guilford women's lacrosse team who will now head into the summer and get to work preparing and improving for 2026.
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