Senior midfielder Maggie Bornhorst (pictured)
tallied six goals and her classmates and fellow midfielders
Brooke Woodland and Allison
Kessler netted four apiece as the Philadelphia University
women's lacrosse team improved to 9-3 on the 2008 regular season
with a 24-12 win at Chestnut Hill College in
a game played at Victory Fields in Plymouth Meeting, Pa.
The Griffins held a 6-5 lead midway through the opening
half but the Lady Rams rallied with a 7-1 run to end the
opening period ahead 12-7. Philadelphia University
then closed out the game with a 12-5 second
half to double-up their hosts and post their most goals scored
in a game this season. Ironically, it was also the
program's highest offensive output since a 28-3 defeat of
Chestnut Hill on this same date--April 23--five years ago in
the 2003 season. In fact, current Lady Rams' assistant coach
Michelle Malone '04 had a goal and an assist
in that game.
Senior midfielder Marissa
Wisniewski opened the scoring for the Lady Rams after
a Chestnut Hill goal, both coming in the first minute of
play. The teams went back-and-forth for the next 14 minutes
before Head Coach Jenn Devinney called a time-out
midway through the opening frame.
The break proved well-timed for the Lady Rams, who strung
together the next seven scores of the game, with freshman
Michelle O'Hanlon, Woodland and Bornhorst
each netting two goals in the flurry that broke open the game.
Woodland also won three draws and a scooped up a ground ball in
today's contest, while Kessler collected five draws and two ground
balls. Sophomore goalkeeper Kelly Staerk started
and played the opening 14:27, totaling four saves in the win
after leaving with the score knotted at five apiece. Fellow
sophomore Katherine Sullivan made seven saves
while playing the rest (and majority) of the sixty-minute contest.
The women's lacrosse team hosts a pair of games this weekend
that both begin at 12:00 noon. On Saturday, April 26, the
visiting Chargers from New Haven University travel to Ravenhill
Field to take on the Lady Rams in a crucial East Coast
Conference (ECC) encounter. Then on Sunday, April 27,
Philadelphia University entertains the Lions of Georgian Court
University, whom the Lady Rams defeated 14-12 back on April 10 in Lakewood, N.J.
