Feb. 26, 2009

Cavaliers Cruise Past Richmond
The No. 4 Virginia women’s lacrosse team extended its streak of easy wins with a 16-7 victory over Richmond Wednesday night at Klöckner Stadium. With the win, the Cavaliers move to 3-0 on the young season, while the Spiders fall to 0-4.

Senior All-American Blair Weymouth got the scoring started at the 28:15 mark with her first of five goals on the evening. Junior Yeardley Love tallied her first 13 seconds later, before Richmond’s Mandy Friend got the Spiders on the board with a goal at 26:44.

Love put Virginia up 3-1 with another score, but Richmond cut Virginia’s lead back to one with a goal from Mary Flowers at 20:57. Senior All-American Ashley McCulloch tallied her first point and Weymouth converted a free position shot to make it 5-2 in favor of Virginia by 16:51.

Tribe trips up Virginia Tech, 14-8
Despite coming back from an early 0-3 hole, the Virginia Tech women's lacrosse team could not overcome a 5-0 William and Mary run to start the second half and the Hokies fell 14-8 to the Tribe in a non-conference match at Albert-Daly Field on Wednesday evening.

The Hokies are still in search of their first win of the year, dropping to 0-4 overall (0-1 ACC). William and Mary improved to 2-1 for the season.

The Tribe got off to a strong start, scoring three straight goals in the first 3:15 of the match. Tech, however, would counter with a run of its own and started the comeback with a goal at the 21:36 mark from Allie Emala (So., Baltimore, Md.). Rachel Culp (Sr., Kent, Ohio) was credited with the assist. Less than a minute later, Jessica Nonn (Fr., Catonsville, Md.) brought the Hokies within one on her first goal on the contest before Dylan Garner (So., Cornelius, N.C.) tied the score at three-all on a free position shot with 14:17 remaining in the first half.