No. 16 UVa Spoils No. 9 Princeton's Home Opener, 14-10

Saturday, February 24

Princeton, N.J.

1:00 PM

Princeton University

1-1

Virginia

3-0

Team	1	2	Final F
Virginia	7	7	14
Princeton	6	4	10

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

No. 16 UVa Spoils No. 9 Princeton's Home Opener, 14-10

February 24, 2018 | Women's Lacrosse

Box Score

It was a back and forth affair in No. 9 Princeton's home opener with No. 16 Virginia, but the Cavaliers came out on top 14-10 after taking control for the final 20 minutes of the game.

Junior Kathryn Hallett led the Princeton (1-1) offense with three goals, while freshman Kyla Sears had two goals and one assist. Sophomore Annie Cory added two goals and sophomore Tess D'Orsi chipped in one goal and one assist. Junior Alex Argo had five caused turnovers, while freshman Marge Donovan had nine draws and junior Ellie McNulty had six. Senior Mary Kate McDonough made 10 saves in goal for the Tigers.

Virginia's Avery Shoemaker had a five-point game with four goals and one assist. Kasey Behr and Ana Hagerup had three goals apiece and Sammy Mueller had two goals and two assists and a team-high seven draws. Kaitlin Luzik caused five turnovers while Sophie Alecce had four. Rachel Vander Kolk made six saves to extend UVa's streak to 3-0.

Neither team would take more than a two-goal lead as the scoring see sawed back and forth but Princeton's last lead would be a 4-3 edge at 10:32 of the first.

The Cavaliers took a 7-6 game into the locker room and the teams continued to go back and forth until seven minutes into the second half.

At that point Princeton was held scoreless for a span of 11:38 while UVa rattled off five straight goals to take a 14-8 lead. Princeton's McNulty was able to end the drought at 1:44 and Sears put away a Colby Chanenchuk pass to put the Tigers in double digits.

Princeton had five yellow cards in the game to UVa's one and turnovers plagued the Tigers 22-15. Princeton had a 16-10 edge in draws with the McNulty and Donovan doing a great job in the center circle.

"I felt like today offensively we just played individually and not as a team and that's not typical of how we play," head coach Chris Sailer said. "We made a lot of mistakes on the defensive end. We have to keep working to improve and hopefully this gets everybody's attention in the locker room. We have to get better at executing our game and we'll keep working hard to get better. Virginia is a great team; they are strong, tough and they go hard to the cage and they were a little more than we could handle today."

Princeton is back in action on Tuesday, Feb. 27 at Lehigh. Game time is at 6:30 p.m.