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St. Mary's City, Md. - Senior attacker
Britten Mathews (Richmond, Va./Collegiate) and
junior midfielder Wilton Megargel
(Charlottesville, Va./St. Anne's-Belfield) each tallied five points
in leading the 19th-ranked Washington & Lee University women's
lacrosse team to a 14-6 non-conference win over St. Mary's College
of Maryland Saturday afternoon.
Mathews and Megargel each
finished with four goals and one assist in leading the Generals
(1-1) while first-year attacker Elizabeth Bucklee
(Princeton, N.J./Stuart Country Day School) added two goals.
St. Mary's (0-1) struck first as sophomore midfielder
Lauren Bennett (Frederick, Md./Gov. Thomas
Johnson) converted on a free position shot at 28:17. Both
squads then each scored back-to-back goals as the game was tied at
3-all at 19:46. The Generals went on to score six unanswered
goals, including a hat trick from Megargel, to
boast a 9-3 halftime lead.
Bennett paced the Seahawks in scoring with two
goals in her first game as a Seahawk while junior midfielder
Aubrey Mirkin (Ashton, Md./Sherwood) dished out
two assists and first-year midfielder Lauriann
Parker (Woodbine, Md./Glenelg) contributed a goal
and an assist.
Mathews scored the first two goals of the
second half before Parker interrupted W&L's
momentum with her first collegiate goal. After sophomore
attacker Maddie McKaig (Annapolis, Md./Annapolis)
scored for the Generals, attackers Nora
Fallon-Oben (Silver Spring, Md./St. John's College [D.C.])
and Melissa Mayer (Crofton, Md./South River)
notched the Seahawks' final two goals before W&L tallied the
game's final two scores.
W&L outshot the Seahawks, 31-22, while St. Mary's edged the
Generals, 26-25, in ground balls. The Generals also claimed a
13-9 advantage in draw controls as junior midfielder Emmy
Mathews (Baltimore, Md./Bryn Mawr) and first-year defender
Caroline Kingsbery (Short Hills, N.J./Kent Place)
each grabbed four.
The Generals' junior Katharine Farrar
(Lexington, Va./Episcopal) finished with 10 saves while first-year
Katie Hammerer (Leonardtown, Md./Leonardtown)
picked up nine stops and a game-high five ground balls in the
Seahawk loss.
St. Mary's continues its home stand next Wednesday, March 3 as
the Seahawks host No. 10 Catholic University in non-conference
action at 4:00 pm in Seahawk Stadium.
