Box Score

LANCASTER, Pa. - Ashley Bevington, Blake Hargest and Jen Pritchard each scored four goals to lead No. 3 Franklin & Marshall past Cabrini 17-6 in the women's lacrosse season and home opener on Wednesday.

The win was not only the first of the season but the first for the Diplomats' (1-0) new mentor and alumnus Lauren Paul.

Hargest added three assists to bring her point total on the day to a game high of seven. Shannon Summers recorded four assists, leaving her two away from taking over fifth place in career assists at F&M. She needs 11 more to become the third player in program history to reach 100 assists.

Freshman Lauren Ehrhardt did not waste any time making herself at home, scoring her first collegiate goal in the first 48 seconds of the game and having a hand in the next two put up by the Diplomats. She finished a pass from Bevington before assisting Hargest for a 2-0 lead.

The Cavaliers (0-1) answered with three straight goals in a three-minute span, including two from Amanda Alexandrowicz and one free-position goal by Dolores Weathers to take their only lead of the day at 3-2.

Hargest easily made it 4-3 with back-to-back goals for the hat trick in just under 10 minutes of play. Pritchard then sandwiched two goals between Alexandrowicz's third goal for a 6-4 edge. Bevington followed in Pritchard's footsteps and scored the next four goals for F&M in the final 10:58 of the first half to take a 10-6 lead.

The Diplomats defense did not surrender any goals and only allowed seven shots to be taken in the second half, while adding seven more goals to the first 10. Meredith Lussier netted a hat trick in the second half and Pritchard added two more goals to pass her new coach on the career points list. Pritchard entered the game with 239 and needed four points reach 242 to take over sixth on the programs all-time list.

Lidia Sanza played all 60 minutes and made seven saves. Cabrini's Kate Schmid tallied 22 saves on 55 F&M shots fired. Pritchard and Bevington each added five draw controls.

The Diplomats return to action on Saturday at No. 7 Washington & Lee. Game time is 1 p.m.