March 5, 2009
BOX SCORE
FARMVILLE, Va. – Longwood University fell to No. 17/17 (Inside Lacrosse/IWLCA) James Madison University 17-11 in women's lacrosse on Thursday evening. The game had originally been scheduled for Wednesday but was moved to Thursday due to winter weather.
Karli Brentlinger/Gambrills, Md. (South River) once again led the Lancers with five goals. Longwood returns to action on Saturday when it hosts Mount St. Mary's at 1:00 p.m.
JMU (3-0) opened the scoring only 24 seconds into the match when Caitlin Sullivan took a feed from Jaime Dardine to post the opening goal. Longwood (1-2) answered back with two Brentlinger goals, the first on a free position shot and the second coming on a pass from
Liz Sellmayer/Baltimore, Md. (Mount de Sales Academy). JMU scored again, this time from Dardine before the Lancers rattled off three straight goals, one by
Dee Warehime/Westminster, Md. (Westminster), one from Cara O'Brien/Arlington, Va. (Bishop O'Connell) and the last one from Brentlinger. JMU's Kim Griffin scored the next three goals before Warehime found the net for the second time of the evening, giving the Lancers a 7-6 lead. Over 10 minutes passed without a goal and it was JMU's Monica Zabel that stopped the drought, tying the game at 7-7. Longwood's Sellmayer scored with 1:14 remaining in the first half before Griffin responded only eight seconds later, making the score 8-8. Brentlinger scored her fifth goal of the game with 36 seconds remaining, giving the Lancers a 9-8 halftime lead.
JMU scored the first two goals of the second half but Longwood answered with two of its own with
Page Farmer/Richmond, Va. (St. Catherine's) and
Kesley Dean/Centreville, Md. (Queen Anne's) putting the Lancers back on top, 11-10. Dean's goal with 21:08 remaining would be the last time Longwood would score, watching the Dukes score seven unanswered goals to go ahead 17-11.
Brentlinger led the Lancers with five goals, giving her 11 on the young season. The sophomore has scored five goals or more in the past two matches. She also picked up two ground balls and had four draw controls. Warhime add two goals and Sellmayer, Dean, Farmer and O'Brien each scored once.
Carlie Nethken/Hanover, Md. (Long Reach) added two assists and three ground balls.
Griffin led JMU with a match-high seven goals and four draw controls. Dardine and Mary Kate Lomady added three goals and one assist each.
