On Saturday, March 22, in Townsend, Md., the Elizabethtown Blue Jays were defeated by the Goucher Gophers in women’s lacrosse. The final score of the game was 19-3.
It was a perfect day for lacrosse being 50 degrees outside, but there were heavy winds the players had to fight against. As the whistle blew to signal the beginning of the game, the Goucher Gophers and the Blue Jays started running up and down the field to collect a victory for their team.
It was a rough beginning for the Blue Jays because the very first goal was scored by a Goucher player. Dana Robidoux, a sophomore at Etown, scored all three goals for the Blue Jays.
The team’s captains are sophomore Briana Rogers, sophomore Mary Nell Donahue and Robidoux. Rogers said she was looking forward to the team’s game on Saturday. “We have a pretty good chance, and this team is guaranteed to be a good match for us, which means the game will be competitive,” Rogers said.
The Gophers were swift in scoring and had goal after goal. They took 14 shots compared to the Blue Jays’ nine. However, the Blue Jays were determined to be victorious.
They had four turnovers in the first half, but cleared their heads in the second half to avoid frustration. The score at the end of the first half was 11-3, with Goucher in the lead.
The goalie for the Blue Jays, first-year Beata Palosz, said, “I had a difficult time guarding the goal.” Her teammates tried to help her defend their goal, but Goucher was quick enough to find the back of the Blue Jay net.
With 16:34 on the clock in the first half, first-year defender Becky Graessle had a penalty called against her.
During the second half, the Gophers took 19 shots on the Blue Jays’ goal, with Etown blocking half of the shots. There was only four minutes left in the game when Goucher’s Kat Carnevale was taken out of the game as a result of a penalty against a Blue Jay player.
The final tally of the game ended in a 19-3 loss for the Blue Jays. It is their sixth consecutive loss for women’s lacrosse, making the team’s overall record 0-6.
The Blue Jays will host Hood College Thursday, March 26 at 4 p.m. at Wolf Field.
