The Lee University women’s lacrosse team finished a busy week with a 14-3 Gulf South Conference loss to the University of Montevallo Saturday afternoon at the South Quad Field. The Lady Flames (0-9, 0-4 GSC) lost to The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, 18-5, on Friday.
The Lady Flames have a modified home-and-home coming up against The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Lee travels to Huntsville on Mar. 30 for a 7 p.m. battle and return to host the Chargers on Apr. 4 at 4 p.m.
MONTEVALLO 14, LEE 3
Jessica Culver scored off an assist by Janey Johnson to open the scoring a little over a minute into the game. Brianne Schapira tied the score a couple minutes later with a free position shot for her first of two goals.
The Falcons (7-6, 2-3 GSC) took control with six consecutive goals to push their lead to 7-1. A free position goal by Schapira supplied the 7-2 halftime score.
Montevallo posted six straight goals in the second half to hold a 13-2 lead with 16:30 remaining. Hanah Rotello received an assist from Meaghan Doyle to cut the deficit to 13-3 with just under 10 minutes left. Jami Hudak scored her sixth goal of the game to wrap up the scoring.
Culver finished the game with three goals and an assist. Alyssa Kaminski added two goals. Jaelyn Carpenter was the winning goalkeeper. She allowed two goals and tallied one save in 30 minutes.
Abby Sanders recorded 11 saves in 60 minutes in goal and was charged with the loss.
UVA-WISE 18, LEE 5
Rotello scored the first of her four goals to put the Lady Flames ahead 1-0 with an unassisted goal less than four minutes in. UVa-Wise (6-2) responded with six goals in a four minute span to lead 6-1 with 20:28 left in the half.
Schapira ended the Cavaliers’ run with a goal off a free position shot. Following three more goals by the visitors, Rotello scored her second of the day. The Cavaliers posted two more goals and Rotello finished the first half scoring with another unassisted goal.
UVa-Wise extended their halftime lead of 11-4 with the first seven goals of the second half. Rotello scored from a free-position shot to supply the final margin with 5:33 left.
Kristin Gobbi led the Cavaliers with six goals. Hannah Marshall added four, while Ashley Wells, Sydney Steinberg and Catherine Dina supplied two goals each.