FARMVILLE, Va. -- Longwood University women's lacrosse dropped a 20-9 decision to the visiting Denver Pioneers Sunday afternoon. The Lancers fall to 0-4 on the season while Denver goes to 3-1. Longwood will return to action on Saturday, March 10 when they host West Chester and Navy in two exhibition match-ups. The Lancers will face West Chester at 9:30 a.m. and take on Navy at 1:00 p.m..

Denver opened the scoring at the 29:20 mark, as Megan Carver scored the first of her two goals less than a minute in, to grab the early one goal lead. The Pioneers padded their lead to two goals after Ali Flurry snuck a shot past Longwood's goalie Jennifer Holliday/Gaithersburg, Md (Quince Orchard) with 24:28 to go in the first half. The Lancers answered right back on the draw control, which was won by Cathleen Strain/Alexandria (Mount Vernon) who took it all the way down and ripped a shot past the Pioneers' keeper to bring Longwood within one. Flurry tallied back-to-back goals to push Denver's lead to 5-2, that was answered by Strain, who recorded her second of three first half goals with 7:25 to go in the half. Strain tallied her third goal with 2:15 to go before the break, to bring the Lancers within three. The Pioneers however put two more goals on the board on free position opportunities to head into the break with a 9-4 lead.

Longwood struck first out of the break, as Kathleen Barry/Annandale (W.T. Woodson) came from behind the net and fired a shot just inside the left post to bring Longwood within five with 28:38 left in the game. The Pioneers were able to take advantage of two more free position opportunities early in the second half to build an 11-5 lead with 27:14 to go in the game.

Strain and Lauren Barnaba/Bel Air, Md. (The John Carroll School) brought the deficit back to four goals, after Barnaba was able to put a shot past keeper Katie Gold with 19:24 left in the game. Denver took the game over from there, as the visiting Pioneers scored a goal off the following draw twenty seconds later and went on to score four more to jump out to a 16-7 lead. Barry recorded her second goal of the game on with 11:36 to go in the game to put the score at 16-8 before the Pioneers went on to outscore Longwood 4-1 in the final ten minutes of the game. Holliday finished the game 14 saves in 53:27 of action while Eliza Coughter/Charlottesville (Charlottesville) tallied one save in 6:33 of time in net. The Pioneers were anchored by Becky Childs in the first half and Gold in the second, each making five saves in the match-up.

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FARMVILLE, Va. – freshman Ali Flury (Arnold, Md.) scored five goals, and senior Kristie Leggio (Bay Shore, N.Y.) added four more on Sunday, as the Pioneers took down Longwood, 20-9.

Junior Megan Carver (Baltimore, Md.) got Denver (3-1) on the board early, scoring just 40 seconds into the game. Flury added her first of the game at 24:28 before Cathleen Strain of Longwood (0-4) answered six seconds later.

Sophomore Karen Morton (Adelaide, Australia) hit the back of the net less than a minute later. At 18:41, Strain scored again, her second of five goals in the contest, putting Longwood within one, but after Flury scored two unanswered goals the Pioneers continued to add to their lead.

Three of Leggio’s goals came in the middle of a 5-0 DU run during the second half.

Junior Jessica Lodders (Castle Rock, Colo.) scored her first two goals of the season in the final 26 seconds of the game.

Sophomore Jordan Elway (Englewood, Colo.) scored in her first game as a Pioneer after sitting out the previous three with an injury.

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