Donohoe Leads 3-0 Heels Past Richmond
from press release
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Corey Donohoe scored
four goals and Kaitlyn Messinger had three consecutivesecond-half
scores as the third-ranked University of North Carolina
women’s lacrosse team held off unranked Richmond by a score
of 14-8 on Sunday afternoon at Fetzer Field in Chapel
Hill.
With the win, Carolina improves to 3-0 on the season. Richmond
falls to 0-3.
Donohoe’s four goals gave her 13 for the season. She
had four in the season opener against Florida last Saturday, five
in Wednesday’s win at Vanderbilt and four on Sunday.
Messinger and Kara Cannizzaro each scored three goals for
Carolina. Abby Friend scored twice, Brittney Coppa had a goal
and an assist and Becky Lynch had two assists. Freshman
Taylor George scored once and Emily Garrity had one assist.
For Richmond, Mary Flowers led the way with three goals and one
assist. Kara Moscheeti scored twice, Sam Stevenson had a goal
and an assist and Hayley Ross and Anne Ryan each scored once.
Cannizzaro started the Tar Heels off quickly with two goals in the
first two and a half minutes for a 2-0 lead. Friend made it
3-0 Carolina with an unassisted goal at the 26:39 mark, wrapping
around the cage from right to left and scoring in the lower right
corner of the net.
Donohoe’s unassisted goal at 23:20 made it 4-0 Tar
Heels.
Moschetti’s free position goal with 19:47 to go in the first
half stopped the UNC run and made the score 4-1. Mary Flowers
followed 10 minutes later with an unassisted goal that cut the lead
to 4-2 and force a Tar Heeltimeout with 9:32 to go before the
break. Donohoe scored an unassisted goal, her second of the
game, off a Richmond foul with 5:59 left in the first half to make
it 5-2 Carolina.
In the second half, Flowers scored her second goal, an unassisted
effort, to make it 5-3 Tar Heels. Coppa responded with an
unassisted goal on a nifty spin move to make it 6-3 Tar Heels at
the 24:57 mark. Friend scored her second goal of the day on a
free position shot with 23:46 left in the game,making the score
7-3.
Ryan scored an unassisted goal at the 23:20 mark to make it 7-4
Carolina, and Flowers’ third goal of the afternoon made it
7-5 with 20:39 to go in the second half. Messinger responded
with back –to-back goals to push the lead back to four goals
at 9-5 with 18:07 left to play. The first goal came on
a free position try and the second came a minute later off a pretty
pass from Garrity.
A minute later, Stevenson scored off a pass from Flowers for
Richmond to make the score 9-6 with 17:06 to go.
Messinger’s third goal in a row, another unassisted effort
from the top of the 12-meter arc, made the score 10-6 with 15:09 to
go. Moschetti’s second goal for the Spiders came with a
man down at the 11:15 mark and made the score 10-7 Tar Heels.
Cannizzaro score her third goal of the day just over a minute later
at the 10:08 mark to put UNC back up by four goals at 11-7, forcing
a Richmond timeout.
Donohoe scored her third goal of the game off a pass from Lynch at
the 6:56 mark to make it 12-7 Carolina Richmond did not go
down quietly, however, responding with a goal from Ross off a pass
from Stevenson to make it 12-9 with under six minutes to go.
Donohoe’s fourth goal of the day came with 2:07 left and
boosted the lead back to five scores at 13-8. George put the
icing on the cake for Carolina with a goal off a pass from Coppa
with 23 seconds left that made it 14-8.
Lauren Maksym went the distance in the cage for UNC, allowing eight
goals and recording five saves Victoria Roebuck played all 60
minutes in goal for the Spiders, making 11 saves.
The Tar Heels will return to action on Friday against second-ranked
Northwestern at 5 p.m. at Fetzer Field.
