Richmond Outguns Longwood 14-12
from press release
RICHMOND, Va. - Eight different Spiders scored
in Richmond's 14-12 victory over visiting Longwood Tuesday
afternoon at UR Stadium. Freshman Gabi Wiegand tallied a game-high
four goals.
"We won a great fight today," said head coach Stephy Samaras. We
proved to ourselves that we can get up on a team and stay up."
The Spiders struck first when Anne Ryan scored off a free position
five minutes into the game. Longwood countered three minutes later
with a free position of its own.
Richmond then rattled off three unanswered goals, two of which came
off assists. Kara Moschetti netted the free position score to put
the Spiders ahead 4-1 with 14 minutes remaining in the half.
Longwood scored again, but Wiegand tallied another and Sam
Stevenson converted a Julianne Nicola pass to bolster the lead to
6-2.
The Lancers answered back with three consecutive goals to cut the
deficit to 6-5 but the Spiders tallied two more to take a 8-5 edge
at the break.
Richmond came out firing on all cylinders to open the last frame,
scoring three goals in two minutes to take an 11-5 advantage.
After a Lancer goal, Wiegand again came up big with another score
from a Ryan dish. Julianne Nicola added a goal thirty seconds later
to put the Spider lead to 13-6 with 20 minutes remaining.
Soon thereafter, Longwood came to life and scored three quick goals
in the span of two minutes to cut the Richmond lead to 13-9. Mary
Flowers scored on a free position to add to the Spider advantage,
but Longwood made the game interesting down the stretch scoring the
game's last three goals to make the score 14-12.
Wiegand recorded her second-straight team-high performance and is
second on the team in goals scored (18). Mary Flowers, Richmond's
top scorer at 20 goals, followed Wiegand with three goals.
