GREENSBORO, N.C. – With a first quarter assist to
Riley Gravley (Greensboro, N.C.),
Maggie Hartnett (Oxford, Maine) became the fifth Quaker to reach the 200-career point threshold for the Guilford College women's lacrosse team (2-5, 0-1 ODAC), although Ohio Northern University (4-2, 0-0 OAC) ran away with the game from there, coming away with an 18-6 decision on Tuesday afternoon at Appenzeller Field in the Armfield Athletic Center.
The Polar Bears were great on the draw and clearance, holding a 19-9 edge to controlling possessions and while being successful on all 21 of their clears, against GC going 17-of-22. ONU also outshot the Quakers 40-12 on the day, including 30-10 in shots on frame.
Sammy Keene (Greensboro, N.C.) went all 60 minutes for the home squad, but facing 30 shots on target, she had a tough job to do and finished with a dozen saves against 18 goals to take the loss and fall to 1-2. Kara Fox played the first half in goal for the guests, allowing five goals against two saves but ended up in line for the win to improve to 3-1. Jenna Messinger played the final 30 for Ohio Northern, making two saves against one goal allowed.
Gravley finished as GC's top scorer on this day, scoring twice and assisting on one more while adding three draw controls. Harnett was quiet outside of the milestone, with one goal, one helper, two caused turnovers, and two groundballs.
Emma Garland (Hampstead, N.C.) probably has Guilford's top all-around showing with two goals on top of a team-high four draw controls, two caused turnovers, and four groundballs.
Kylie Wood (Greensboro, N.C.) also scored once for the Quakers.
Nine different players found the twine for the Polar Bears led by Emma Hoersten who scored four goals and an assist. Elena Martin and Hailey Hahn netted three goals apiece with the former adding five draw controls, six groundballs, and three caused turnovers. Keaghan Burgden had a game-high eight draw controls in addition to two goals and three assists.
The early stages of this game would be exceptionally well-contested and it took nearly half of the opening quarter before we saw the matches' first goal scored by Alise Callahan before Hahn netted a free-position tally. Hartnett would get GC on the board with Gravely feeding her in front at the top of the arch, before the graduate student rolled right and scored into the upper-right. Then the same tandem traded roles to even the score as Hartnett hit a cutting Gravley across the face of the goalie and she went bottom-right to tie things at two at the end of one.
The opposing teams traded the first four goals of the second frame. Martin got the first to go on a free-position chance, then Wood netted a free-look of her own into the middle-right to counter. Martin got another just 20 seconds later, putting ONU back in front, but Gravley leveled the tallies again with another free-position score from the left wing, into the bottom right of the twine to make the score four-all. Unfortunately, it would be all Polar Bears from there, as they scored three-straight before Garland temporarily halted the run with a free-position score. Then the guests scored another four unanswered to close the half up 11-5.
Ohio Northern extended the run with a 5-0 frame in the third, before Garland recorded her second free-position score of the game going low, near-side from the right wing to score. The Polar Bears finished the scoring with the final two tallies to make the final score 18-6.
The Quakers are back to Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) play next, hosting Shenandoah University at Appenzeller Field on Saturday, March 15 at 12:00 PM.
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