ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa.-- The Elizabethtown women's lacrosse team was dominant in the first half against Wilkes in Landmark Conference action resulting in a 23-3 win over the Colonels. Prior to today's game nine Blue Jay seniors were honored;
Maeve Keeney,
Megan Gress,
Madison Hennelly,
Megan Meyer,
Lauren Puntanen,
Kendall Ulmer,
Katie Mackey,
Samantha Archer, and
Rachel Murphy.
Ella Scholes and
Drew Bridges led the team with six goals each while Scholes also added three assists. M.Meyer totaled five goals.
Abby Bach tallied two goals and five assists while Gress scored a goal while adding four assists.
Elizabethtown got off to a flying starting posting 13 goals in the first quarter, while not allowing a single one. Bridges scored the Blue Jays first goal of the game followed by M. Meyer's free-position goal 44 seconds later. The next six goals were fired off in the next three minutes, extending the Jays lead to 9-0. Goals from M.Meyer, Hennelly, Bach, Bridges, and Scholes happened during that time. Midway through the first, Bridges tacked on Etown's tenth goal to get the clock running. Gress, M.Meyer, and
Hailey Meyer finished off the scoring for Etown in the first quarter.
Wilkes scored two of their three goals in the second quarter just allowing Elizabethtown to five goals. The Blue Jays started early in the second as Scholes and H.Meyer recorded back-to-back goals. Scholes then netted the next two for the Jays to go up, 17-0 before Wilkes scored their first at the 4:28 minute mark. Scholes added her fifth of the day off a feed from Bach. The Colonels scored their second with just two seconds remaining on the clock. Going into halftime Elizabethtown led, 18-2.
The Colonels didn't score again until the fourth as the third quarter was all Blue Jays. At the 9:04 minute mark, Bach scored her second before Bridges added Etown's 20th; both off the feed from Scholes. With just under a minute in the third, Gress found Scholes for another Etown goal. The Blue Jays would go on to score their final two goals in the fourth before Wilkes put up one more as Etown defeated Wilkes, 23-3.
