ASHLAND, Va. – The Guilford College women's lacrosse team saw their Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) postseason chances dashed with a 19-1 defeat at the hands of Randolph-Macon College on Saturday afternoon at Day Field.
Despite their now 5-9 record that will be good for the Quakers' most wins in a season since the 2020 COVID-shortened season when they began 6-1, GC falls to 2-6 in ODAC play and due to the conference tiebreakers, are now mathematically eliminated from postseason contention. Conversely, R-MC officially secures their spot in the conference tournament, improving to 5-3 in league play and 11-5 overall.
Zenna Carson (Blacksburg, Va.) started in goal for Guilford, and got peppered with shots in 30 minutes and change in net. She faced 18 shots on frame, a majority of those coming in the first quarter, allowing a dozen tallies against six saves to fall to 5-9 on the season in goal.
Sammy Keene (Greensboro, N.C.) played the other 29:56 of the contest in net and did not fare much better, permitting seven goals against four saves. Emma Taylor played the first half in goal for the Yellow Jackets, allowing one goal against one save to earn the win and improve to 11-5. Gillian Gladden and Ellen Stark played the third and fourth quarters respectively, making two saves apiece against no goals permitted.
After scoring her 100
th career goal on Wednesday,
Maggie Hartnett (Hebron, Maine) netted number-101 on Saturday, scoring the team's lone goal. She also caused a turnover and scooped three groundballs.
Maggie Bryson (Kernersville, N.C.) and
Kylie Horn (Fairfax, Va.) each had two draw controls while Keene corralled a team-high four groundballs. Randolph-Macon saw 11 different players find the back of the net in the win, including six with multiple tallies. Evie McNeally and Lilly Fowler recorded three goals and an assist each with the former adding a game-high five draw controls. Annie Bartley was their leading point-scorer with two goals and four helpers. Jenna Shaughnessy led the hosts with three caused turnovers and four groundballs in the win.
It took little time for R-MC to create some distance on the scoreboard. Bartley got them on the board less than 90 seconds in with an unassisted tally before she served as the distributor for a Maggie Muldoon goal half a minute later. McNeally found paydirt off an Emma Creekmore feed for the Yellow Jackets' third within a minute-and-a-half. Guilford got one back, forcing a turnover quickly after the draw, before drawing a green card. On the man-advantage, Hartnett cashed in, doing it herself and netting her 36
th score of the season. Unfortunately, that would ultimately be all the Quakers would get in the game. Taylor Mittelstadter scored on a free-position chance for the first of six goals that R-MC would get before the quarter's close. Amelia Davis scored on the man-up, then McNeally scored her second of the game before the hosts went on a binge to close the stanza with Muldoom, McNeally, and Kelaigh Mulligan all finding the back of the net within a 30-second span.
Randolph-Macon dominated in virtually every way in the first, collecting all 11 draw controls in the frame while forcing six turnovers and outshooting GC 18-1.
Anna Snoddy opened the second quarter scoring for the home team before Fowler got the game into running clock with 39 minutes remaining. McNeally and Fowler each added a goal before Jordyn Schwartz beat the horn with a man-up tally to make the score 14-1 at the break.
R-MC took their foot off the gas in the second half, but still saw success. Fowler and Bartley scored in the third before McNeally, Mulligan, and Annie Pruitt added three more in the fourth to bring the final score to 19-1.
Guilford completes their season on Wednesday night on their home turf, playing host to No. 7 nationally ranked Washington & Lee beginning at 4:00 PM.
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