Cavaliers Defeat UMBC 19-10
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March 25, 2003
TThe University of Virginia women’s lacrosse team used a defensive stand by captains Lauri Kenis and Tiffany Schummer to ignite a 9-1 run, breaking open a close game to lead 12-4 at halftime as the Cavaliers held on for the 19-10 win over UMBC. At the other end, Virginia’s third captain, Lauren Aumiller, drew a shooting space foul with just under 11 minutes to play in the first half and converted the 8-meter shot to become Virginia’s all-time leading scorer with 252 points (178g, 74a). Nine minutes into the second half, Cary Chasney caused a turnover and threw the ball to Aumiller at the restraining line. Aumiller raced in and scored her third goal of the game, notching her 35th career hat trick and setting the record for career hat tricks at Virginia. Aumiller finished the game with four goals and two assists, giving her 181 goals and 75 assists for 256 career points.
UMBC got on the board first 2:16 into the game, but Kim Connors won the ensuing draw and Virginia brought the ball behind the cage to Aumiller, who fed Chasney, who was cutting down the arc. Chasney’s goal, which came 48 seconds after UMBC’s, tied the game at 1. Virginia took the lead off the next draw as Aumiller won the draw to herself and took the ball into the UVa offensive end, where Amy Appelt rolled under her defender and scored 43 seconds after Chasney, putting Virginia up 2-1. UMBC tied the game 32 seconds later as the Retrievers broke the Cavalier clear and scored on a breakaway.
Caitlin Banks stripped the ball at the Cavalier offensive restraining line and raced towards the cage, tossing the ball at the last minute to Appelt who was trailing. Appelt scored, giving the Cavaliers a 3-2 lead. Again UMBC tied the game on an charge to the cage, making the score 3-3 8:41 into the contest. Kenis caused a turnover and Schummer scooped up the ground ball in the 10th minute of the game, and Morgan Thalenberg took the ball into VIrginia’s offensive end where Kim Connors picked up a loose ball in front of the cage and scored 11:00 into the game, giving Virginia a lead they would not relinquish. Schummer started the next Cavalier score with a caused turnover and ground ball in the defensive arc and in the fast break Banks fed Appelt who was on the goal circle. Appelt’s goal marked her fifth hat trick of the 2003 campaign and gave Virginia a 5-3 lead.
Meredith Lazarus scooped up a ground ball in the Virginia defensive arc and started the next transition that she finished herself, taking the ball at the top of the arc, eluding a defender, and scoring, giving Virginia a 6-3 lead halfway through the period. Ashley Dodson picked up a loose ball in the Cavalier defensive arc and started a transition upfield that was completed as Connors fed Banks on the circle, putting UVa up 7-3.
Nikki Lieb vacuumed up a dropped ball on her mark in just inside the fan and started the sequence that led to Aumiller’s record-setting point. In the set attack, Aumiller drove in from the left and drew a shooting space foul on the right inside hash. She deposited the ball on the top shelf of the cage at the 19:09 mark of the game, giving her 178 career goals along with 74 career assists and 252 career points, breaking the record set by Lindsey Sheehan from 1984-1986.
Dodson started the next sequence with a caused turnover at the top of the arc. Connors picked up the ground ball and Virginia brought the ball downfield where Aumiller flipped the ball to Tyler Leachman, who was cutting across the arc. Leachman’s goal found its way across the goal line, marking Aumiller’s 75th career assist and gving Virginia a 9-3 lead. Leachman scored again 75 seconds later, taking a feed from Banks in front of the cage and converting it for a 10-3 lead, closing out a 7-0 run for Virginia in a span of 14:11. UMBC broke the run with an 8-meter goal 4:22 before halftime.
Carol Hotarek scored a pair of goals for the Cavaliers in the final two minutes of the half. She started the first goal herself with a draw control after the UMBC goal and in the set attack Chelsea Metz fed her right in front of the cage. Hotarek’s second goal, which came with 11 seconds to play in the half, came as she grubbed her own rebound and buried the ball in the back of the net, sending Virginia into break with a 12-4 lead.
The Cavaliers won the opening draw of the second half but UMBC gained possession and took it downfield where they lost possession and Connors flipped the ball to Thalenberg at the restraining line. Thalenberg tossed the ball to Kenis, who threw a long pass to Courtney Young, who fed Aumiller. Aumiller raced in for the goal, opening the scoring in the second half. The Retrievers answered three minutes later on an unassisted goal by Jennifer Kasper. UMBC won the ensuing draw but Lieb caused a turnover and picked up the loose ball, starting a fast break that saw her get the ball back at the offensive restraining line where she fed Thalenberg cutting to the cage.
Again the Retrievers won the draw but Chasney caused a turnover and brought the ball into the offensive zone. There she fed Aumiller, who raced in from the top to notch a goal nine minutes into the second half, giving her a hat trick, the 35th of her career, setting a new school record.
Kenis caused a turnover and was awarded the ground ball, starting the next scoring sequence that was completed as Young drove to the cage, scoring Virginia’s 16th goal with 16:18 to play in the game. UMBC again won the draw but an overthrow by the Retrievers was scooped up by Andrea Pfeiffer at the goal line. She started the transition that found Ashleigh Haas on the wing. Haas fed Aumiller, who scored on an over-the-shoulder shot, putting the Cavaliers up 17-6.
UMBC scored three goals in a two-minute span for a mini-run, but the Cavaliers answered back with a pair of goals 12 seconds apart. Ginger Miles, who had come in for Pfieffer with seven-and-a-half minutes to play, started the first goal with a ground ball pickup after UMBC lost the ball behind the cage. At the other end of the field Hotarek threw a long pass to Kate Jerde who was in the arc. Jerde’s goal was the first of her career at Virginia. Hotarek won the next draw and took it upfield where she fed Metz, who scored the Cavaliers’ 19th goal of the game at the 58:29 mark of the contest. UMBC scored their tenth goal of the game with 16 seconds to go for the final score of 19-10.
Virginia returns to action with a road contest in Philadelphia as they play Temple on Saturday, March 29.
Linescore 1 2 F recordsVirginia 12 7 19 7-2UMBC 4 6 10 1-6
Scoring summary:2:16 BC Traber 0-13:04 VA Chasney (Aumiller) 1-13:41 VA Appelt 2-14:13 BC Traber (Fiorini) 2-25:16 VA Appelt (Banks) 3-28:41 BC Dragoni 3-311:00 VA Connors 4-313:40 VA Appelt (Banks) 5-314:57 VA Lazarus 6-317:37 VA Banks (Connors) 7-319:09 VA Aumiller (FPS) 8-322:56 VA Leachman (Aumiller) 9-324:11 VA Leachman (Banks) 10-325:38 BC Allen (FPS) 10-428:07 VA Hotarek (Metz) 11-429:49 VA Hotarek 12-433:54 VA Aumiller (Young) 13-436:31 BC Kasper 13-536:52 VA Thalenberg (Lieb) 14-538:48 VA Aumiller (Chasney) 15-539:39 BC Kasper (FPS) 15-643:42 VA Young 16-645:53 VA Aumiller (Haas) 17-655:29 BC Dragoni 17-756:52 BC Kasper (FPS) 17-857:29 BC Allen (Traber) 17-958:17 VA Jerde (Hotarek) 18-958:29 VA Metz (Hotarek) 19-959:44 BC Dragoni (Hess) 19-10
Goals: VA: Aumiller 4, Appelt 3, Hotarek 2, Leachman 2, Chasney, Connors, Lazarus, Banks, Thalenberg, Jerde, Metz, Young
BC: Dragoni 3, Kasper 3, Traber 2, Allen 2
Assists: VA: Banks 3, Aumiller 2, Hotarek 2, Metz, Connors, Young, Haas, Lieb BC: Hess, Fiorini, Traber
Goalies: VA: Andrea Pfeiffer (52:30 mins, 6 saves, 6 GA); Ginger Miiles (7:30 mins, 2 saves, 4 GA)
BC: Kourtney Stringer (60 mins, 9 saves, 19 GA)
Shots: VA 30, BC 24Draws: VA 11, BC 20Ground balls: VA 31, BC 25Caused turnovers: VA 14, BC 6Turnovers: VA 14, BC 21Fouls: VA 13, BC 68-meter attempts: VA 1, BC 78-meter shots: VA 1, BC 5Clearing: VA 10-16, BC 8-9