Baltimore, Md.—Visiting Delaware scored nine of the game's first ten goals and defeated UMBC, 16-5 at UMBC Stadium. The Retrievers fall to 3-3 on the season, while Delaware gets its first win after two losses.

UMBC possessed the ball in the early stages of the game, but could not generate quality scoring opportunities. The Blue Hens jumped ahead, 2-0 on goals by Courtney Aburn and Debbie Sloan, but UMBC senior reserve attacker Heather Licht scored ten seconds after Sloan's tally to cut the deficit to 2-1 at 8:35 mark of the first half.

Delaware's Nicole Flego scored back-to-back goals, the latter on a free position shot to give the visitors a 4-1 lead at the 15:15 mark. They would tack on five more scores before UMBC senior attacker Jen Kasper ended the 7-0 run with an unassisted score with 3:10 left in the first half.

Leading 9-2 at intermission, Delaware added a score by Sloan 5:26 into the second half, but the Retrievers showed some life, getting back-to-back tallies from sophomore attacker Abbey Swift and freshman attacker Amanda Gable to trim the margin to 10-4 with 17:16 remaining. After an exchange of goals, the Blue Hens posted the final five scores to avenge last year's 12-9 loss to the Retrievers in Newark, Del.

Swift was the lone multiple-point scorer for UMBC with two goals. Sloan and Casey McCrudden each scored four points (3g, 1a) to lead Delaware.

Delaware outshot UMBC, 31-14 and Blue Hen netminder Jessica Cerveny made five saves in going the distance. UMBC starter Susie Sweeney made five saves, while allowing nine goals in 23 minutes, while reserve Kate Quick had four stops and allowed seven scores in the final 37 minutes.

UMBC returns to action on Sunday when they host Old Dominion at 1:00 p.m.

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BALTIMORE, MD -- Casey McCrudden and Debbie Sloan eachposted three goals and an assist to lead the University of Delaware women's lacrosse team to a 16-5 victory over UMBC Friday afternoon.

The Blue Hens earned their first victory of the 2007 season by improving to 1-2 on the year. UMBC, which fell to 3-3 on the season, dropped its fifth game in six all-time meetings with Delaware.

Nicole Flego recorded two goals and an assist for Delaware, while Emily Schaknowski, Katie Muth and Courtney Aburn each contributed two goals. Jessica Cerveny made five saves and allowed five goals while playing all 60 mintues in the Blue Hen goal.

Delaware struck first when Aburn scored an unassisted goal with 23:35 left in the first half, and exactly two minutes later Muth added a goal to make it a 2-0 game. Heather Licht answered 10 seconds later for the Retrievers off an assist from Kelly Fahey to cut the Delaware advantage to 2-1, but the Blue Hens responded with seven consecutive goals to go up 9-1.

Flego ignited the spurt with a pair of unassisted goals 1:24 apart, and Schaknowski scored at the 12:08 mark to put Delaware ahead 5-1. After McCrudden scored twice, the first off a feed from Sloan, Aburn and Muth added unassisted goals to make it an eight-goal game with 6:58 to play in the half. Jen Kasper ended the run with an unassisted goal at the 3:10 mark to pull the Retrievers within 9-2 at the break.

Sloan opened the second half scoring before UMBC's AbbeySwift and Amanda Gable scored to make it a 10-4 game with 17:16 to play. After Amanda Jones scored for the BlueHens, Swift scored again as UMBC got within 11-5 at the 13:30 mark. However Delaware scored the final five goals of the game to pull away.

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