GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Guilford College women's lacrosse team saw their season come to a close, getting blanked by Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) foe No. 7/8 Washington and Lee University, 20-0 on Wednesday evening at Appenzeller Field.
The Quakers conclude the season with a 5-10 record, their most wins since 2020, and 2-7 in ODAC play. The Generals also round out conference action, finishing undefeated in league play for the tenth-straight year at 9-0 and 13-3 overall.
Zenna Carson (Blacksburg, Va.) got the start in goal for Guilford, playing the first half and fourth quarter, stopping seven shots against 15 tallies allowed with three groundballs, finishing her senior campaign with a record of 5-10.
Gabby Matthews (Kernersville, N.C.) played the third for GC, allowing all five shots on frame to find the back of the net. Caroline Kranich only played the first quarter for the visitors and did not face a shot to get the win and improve to 12-3. Iman Haddad played the other 45 minutes, maintaining the shutout with three saves.
Maggie Hartnett (Hebron, Maine) led the Quakers with three shots, two of them on goal, adding a caused turnover and two groundballs.
Emma Garland (Hampstead, N.C.) also had a shot on target, collecting two groundballs with a caused turnover while
Riley Gravley (Greensboro, N.C.) added a shot and a draw control. W&L saw 11 different players find paydirt with Hannah Bishop leading the way with four goals and an assist plus three groundballs. Walker McKnight and Julia Thomson scored three times each with the latter adding a pair of helpers and four groundballs and the former contributing four draw controls. Alex Petras pitched in two goals and two assists while Eugenie Rovegno dominated the draw with 6 draw controls.
Washington and Lee put this one away early as they secured each of the first three draws and went directly down the field to score as Bishop, McKnight, and Petras all found the back of the net within the game's first 120 seconds. An offsides on the draw gave Guilford their first of just two draw controls on the afternoon, slowing the Generals a tad, but not much as a turnover ushered in another scoring binge with Thompson, Caroline Foster, and McKnight each scored within 90 seconds. The visitors would slow the pace some after that, but continued to score seemingly at will as Bishop, Shannon Timoney, McKnight, Bishop again, and Petras, all added tallies to make it an 11-0 lead at the end of the first.
W&L outshot GC 14-0 in the first frame, collected 11 of the 12 draws, and only permitted the Quakers to be successful on one of their four clear attempts in the stanza in which they enforced their will, getting the game into running clock before the end of even the first quarter.
The second was slow paced. The guests scored within the first two minutes courtesy of Thompson before backing off for an extended stretch. Sophie Edwards and Ginny Taylor each added goals for the Generals who led 14-0 at the half.
They would tack on five more out of the break. Betty Boatwright scored on the man-advantage, then Brianna Benoit contributed a score. On their third free-position attempt of the game, they finally took a shot, with Hannah Van son scoring on the man-up. Bishop's fourth goal and Tomoney's second extended the score to 19-0 through three.
Thompson scored on a free-position attempt in the fourth, bringing the final score to an even 20-0.
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 2025.
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