ASHLAND, VA – Emily Kent and Erin Clare Cassidy each scored four goals as the Randolph-Macon women's lacrosse team held off Lynchburg for a 14-10 ODAC win in Ashland on Wednesday. LC (5-5 / 0-3 ODAC) got on the board first when Lesley Buckingham scored 2:30 into the contest. Kent got the equalizer for R-MC (4-4 / 3-1 ODAC) at the 23:40 mark on an unassisted strike to make the score 1-1.

The game remained way until a goal by Hutchinson with 7:40 left in the first half sparked what proved to be a 5-0 run for the Jackets, who went up 6-1 on a Cassidy goal with 2:37 to go.

LC's Kathryn Ollice made the score 6-2 with just under two minutes left in the first stanza before R-MC scored three of the final four goals of the half, the last by Logan Pomeroy with eight seconds on the clock, sending R-MC to the intermission with a 9-3 advantage.

Back-to-back goals by Cassidy and Pomery at the start of the second half pushed the Yellow Jackets ahead 11-3.

LC rallied, outscoring R-MC, 7-3 down the stretch, pulling within four at 14-10 on an Ollice score with 1:40 to go in the contest, but that would be as close as the Hornets would get as R-MC got the draw and was able to run out the clock.

Hutchinson finished with three goals for R-MC, while Pomery had two goals and Alex Flammia made 15 saves in the cage for the Jackets.

Ollice finished with a team-high four goals for LC, while Buckingham and Lindsay Gengras each tallied a pair of strikes in a losing effort.

Randolph-Macon will be back in action on Saturday when it travels to Guilford for a 3:00 p.m. ODAC game.

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ASHLAND, VA – The Randolph-Macon College women's lacrosse team took control of the game early and captured a 14-10 decision over Lynchburg College, despite four goals from LC junior Katie Ollice (West Chester, PA/West Chester).

The Hornets scored the first goal of the contest, but the Yellow Jackets rattled off the next six scores and held the lead the rest of the way.

Ollice netted three of her goals in the second half. Lindsay Gengras (Avon, CT/Avon) and Lesley Buckingham (Herndon, VA/Herndon) each had two goals and Patty Sheahan (Lutherville, MD/St. Timothy's) and Deana Welsch (Yorktown Heights, NY/Yorktown) both had a goal and an assist. Morgan Logue (Barrington, IL/Barrington) dished out two assists.

Emily Kent and Erin Claire Cassidy each had four goals and an assist for Randolph-Macon (4-4/3-1 ODAC). Alex Flammia made 15 stops for the Yellow Jackets, who won despite getting out-shot by a 33-22 margin.

Lynchburg (5-5/0-3 ODAC) travels north to Maryland to battle Stevenson University (the former Villa Julie) Saturday at 2:00 p.m.

2009-04-02