GREENSBORO, N.C. – It was an afternoon of milestones and celebration at Appenzeller Field in the Armfield Athletic Center for the Guilford College women's lacrosse team (5-11, 2-7 ODAC), as Maggie Hartnett (Hebron, Maine) reset her own program record with 15 points in a single game, helping lift her team to a 24-3 victory, the 50^th as a collegiate coach for Taylor Cline, over Sweet Briar College (0-12, 0-9 ODAC) on Saturday.

In her final act on the turf she has called home for the past five seasons, Hartnett put on a show, netting seven goals and adding eight assists to accumulate 15 points in the game, besting her own program-record of 14 recorded in GC's matchup with Warren Wilson last spring. Additionally, her assists total of eight is a career-best and tied for second-most in a game on record. On the team-level, the Quakers netted 24 goals, their fourth-highest total in program history while for Cline, it was her fifth win on top of 45 at Frostburg State University to reach the milestone.

Guilford dominated this game straight from the first draw, outshooting the Vixens 37-13 including 32-9 in shots on target. SBC turned over the ball 17 times against nine by the Quakers, who held a 20-9 edge on groundballs while the Vixens managed just six clear attempts all game.

Sammy Keene (Greensboro, N.C.) enjoyed a rare, light afternoon in goal for GC, facing just nine shots on target. She permitted three goals but made six saves to improve to 4-8.

The same was not true for Lizzie Mehl who played the first 53 minutes and change, taking the defeat to fall to 0-12 after conceding 22 goals against just seven saves in the game.
 

In addition to her scoring contributions, Hartnett compiled four caused turnovers and four groundballs. Carm DeFeo (Shelton, Conn.) was her top scoring companion in this one, netting four goals on top of two assists while Riley Gravley (Greensboro, N.C.) also found paydirt four times and had one helper. Emma Garland (Hampstead, N.C.) stuffed the stat sheet with three goals, one assist, four groundballs, four caused turnovers, and a game-high six draw controls.

Valen Foster scored two of SBC's three goals with Elise Palazzo scoring the last one. Ashley Prevet and Kayla Nuhl each had an assist with the former leading the Vixens with four draw controls.

The Quakers wasted no time making this one a rout, netting their third-fastest goal in program history, and quickest in over a decade when Garland controlled the draw, got it to Hartnett who found Kylie Wood (Greensboro, N.C.) and she easily beat Mehl for the opening tally just 13 seconds in. Just to prove it was not a fluke, GC went ahead and repeated the feat, this time with DeFeo corralling the draw, before Garland setup Hartnett 19 seconds later. DeFeo got in on the fun less than a minute after then Hartnett scored an unassisted tally to give Guilford a 4-0 lead with just 122 seconds having come off the clock. Hartnett made it five points in under five minutes with a free-position score at the 10:30 mark before assisting on Gravley's first goal at 8:09. Kaylee Carr (Plant City, Fla.) added one off a penalty, then Hartnett got one from a Leyla Strong (Concord, N.C.) distribution and Natalia Rubio (Greensboro, N.C.) netted her second collegiate tally. DeFeo got the game into running clock before the conclusion of the first quarter scoring on a free-position chance, as they upped the score to 10-0 after one.

Guilford did slow the scoring tempo some in the second but made the scoring landslide 15-in-a-row. Gravley opened the frame with a goal off a DeFeo setup then Garland off a Hartnett feed, and Wood from Hartnett in just a six-minute span of gametime. Garland cashed in off a Carr dish then Carr scored one unassisted before Palazzo got SBC on the board with the score 15-1.

Gravley scored off a DeFeo assist to open the third before Foster got it back for Sweet Briar. Karly Smith (Greensboro, N.C.) netted one for GC and Harnett scored an unassisted goal, her 40^th of the season, her first year reaching that benchmark in her career, as then things got interesting with the score 18-2 entering the fourth.

Sitting just three points from tying, and four from breaking the program record, GC started running their offense through the fifth-year even more than usual. Foster scored the first goal of the frame for the Vixens before Hartnett linked up with Garland and then replicated that but with DeFeo. She tied her record with her 14^th point on a free-position goal with 9:03 remaining but the celebration was delayed. DeFeo picked off a pass from Mehl who was out of the crease on a clear attempt. The freshman won the race to the net with an injury timeout ensuing. It did not matter as Hartnett took care of the rest, receiving a pass from Gravley, she went bottom-left for the record-breaker. Gravley scored a free-position tally to bring the final score to 24-3.

The Quakers conclude their season with a contest at Averett on Wednesday, April 23^rd starting at 6:00 PM.

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