Lehigh University
Longwood
Lehigh battles Longwood to the end, but falls 12-9
4/10/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Lacrosse
Longwood was on fire to start the contest, scoring the game’s first five goals in the opening 18 minutes. Starsoneck finally got the Mountain Hawks on the board with 11:17 left in the opening half off of a feed from Chamberlain and Vienna Pharaon scored four minutes after that to make the score 5-2 in favor of Longwood. The Lancers would then tack on three more goals before halftime to head into intermission ahead 8-2.
Cahtleen Strain opened the second half with a goal for Longwood just 2:16 in, but Starsoneck scored her second goal of the contest five minutes later to make the score 9-3 in favor of the Lancers. Ali Shafer scored on a free position shot at the
Chamberlain scooped up three ground balls for the Mountain Hawks on Sunday, while Caitlin Carney, Sherry, Starsoneck, and Cominsky each scooped up three. Brittany Bessler and Kyle Begina split time in the cage for the Mountain Hawks, with each goal keeper sending back four Lancer shots. The Brown and White was out shot 30-23 for the game, but scooped up 25 ground balls to the Lancers 17. Lehigh also won 16 draw controls to Longwood’s seven.
Head Coach Liz Ota knew today’s game would be a difficult task coming off of a game on Saturday. “We knew that they (Longwood) would be difficult to beat. They (Longwood) beat William and Mary, who was ranked No. 20 in the nation at the time and they are a solid, athletic team.” Ota continued, “Coming on the back end of a back-to-back series, following a tough game yesterday with Colgate, you could tell our players weren’t as fresh in the beginning, especially our mid-field players, like Barrie (Cominsky), Kara (Chalanick) and Christy (Smith). I was pleased with the comeback we put together there at the end and I thought that it had a lot to do with our success in the draw controls and possession.”
Lehigh returns to action on Wednesday, April 13 when the Mountain Hawks welcome
