March 25, 2007

Box Score

LANCASTER, Pa. - #5 Franklin & Marshall knocked off its fifth nationally ranked team in six games, handing #15 McDaniel a 13-7 loss in Centennial Conference women's lacrosse action Sunday afternoon at Sponaugle-Williamson Field. The Diplomats record remains untarnished at 7-0 (2-0 CC), while McDaniel, playing in its Centennial season opener, falls to 5-1 (0-1 CC).

Jen Pritchard (Media, PA / Penncrest) and Blake Hargest (Cockeysville, MD / SPSG) each scored four goals for the Diplomats. Pritchard tallied the game-winner on a free position shot with 4:16 left in the first half, and assisted on another pair of goals, both of which were scored by Ashley Bevington (Schwenksville, PA / Hill School). Hargest was credited with an assist on one of Shannon Summers (North Wales, PA / Hill School) two goals in the game.

After trading pairs of goals to open the game, F&M reeled off six unanswered in a span of 17 minutes of the first half to make it an 8-2 contest. Despite a three-goal run on the F&M cage that served as bookends for the halftime break, McDaniel never recovered.

Megan Mattson (Mt. Airy, MD / S. Carroll) factored in McDaniel's pair late in the first half, assisting Michelle Mullen (Pasadena, MD / Chesapeake) with 3:41 left before the break before finding the net on her own with 40 ticks in the half for her second goal of the game. Mullen and Mattson each finished the game with two goals, as did Chelsea Ferruzzi (Jenkintown, PA / Jenkintown), who scored off of the opening draw of the second half 25 ticks in.

The Diplomats squelched any hopes of a McDaniel comeback by responding with a four-goal run that included half of Hargest's scoring on the day.

F&M out-shot McDaniel 31-19 in the game, peppering 18 shots on McDaniel's starting keeper, Sarah White (Lincoln, DE / Cape Henlopen). White turned aside six shots and allowed eight goals, while hearing a pair of advances catch iron and seeing a pair sent wide. She was replaced after the half by Megan Millhausen (Arnold, MD / Broadneck), who turned aside a pair and surrendered five.

Lidia Sanza (Cockeysville, MD / SPSG) thwarted seven McDaniel shots and let as many go by in the Diplomats' cage.

The game was the first contest in any sport played on F&M's campus of the spring season. The women will look for its second home game actually played in Lancaster this season on Thursday when F&M hosts Swarthmore in Centennial action. Opening draw is set for 5:00 p.m.