Women’s Tennis Only Winner

Baseball, Softball and Both Lax Teams Lose

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Women’s Tennis

CHAMBERSBURG , Pa. – The SU women’s tennis team got itself back on the winning track Wednesday evening with a 7-2 non-conference victory over Wilson College.

SU (5-3) had to forfeit one singles and one doubles match due to the absence of No. 2 singles player Sakiko Horikawa (Chiba, Japan/SHOWA), but swept all the staged matches to secure its second victory in the last three matches.

Senior Jen McNeal (Verona, Va./Fort Defiance) led the charge with a 6-1, 6-1 victory at No.1 singles and an 8-0 victory with junior Wendy Legge (Stephens City, Va./Sherando) at the top doubles spot.

SU dominated play, losing just seven singles games and one doubles game in 12 combined sets.

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The women are back in action this Friday and Saturday with doubleheader matches at Christopher Newport and Virginia Wesleyan, respectively.

Softball

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – The women’s softball team continues to look for its first victory this spring after Mary Washington College swept the Hornets 13-0 and 9-1 in a Wednesday non-conference doubleheader.

SU (0-17) could muster just five combined hits in the two games; Nikki Braithwaite (Winchester, Va./James Wood) had the only game one hit and then was 1 for 2 with a run scored in the nightcap.

Box Scores

The Hornets will take the rest of the week off for Easter and do not play again until traveling to Randolph Macon Woman’s College next Monday afternoon.

Baseball

WINCHESTER, Va. – The baseball team also fell Wednesday afternoon; Oswego State took the Hornets 12-1 in non-conference action at Bridgeforth Field.

Shenandoah (8-16) took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third when John Cowell (Devon, Pa./Conestoga) singled, stole second and then scored on Tommy Delaney’s (Fairfax Station, Va./Hayfield) double to right.

Unfortunately, the Lakers (1-5) answered with two runs in the fourth, one in the fifth and six in the sixth to break open the contest. Defensive woes once again hurt SU; four of Oswego’s runs were unearned due to five Hornets errors.

Box Score

Cowell was 2 for 5 with the run scored to lead Shenandoah offensively.

SU hosts Greensboro on Friday and Saturday in a pair of Dixie Conference contests.

Men’s Lacrosse

DOVER, Del. – Senior Matt Burton (Ashburn, Va./Woodbridge) became the Hornets all-time leading men’s lacrosse goal scorer Wednesday afternoon, but his three tallies were not enough as Wesley College won its second straight with a 14-7 Pennsylvania Athletic Conference victory over visiting Shenandoah.

Wesley (2-4, 1-1 PAC) scored its first goal just 23 seconds into the contest and jumped out to a 6-1 lead after one quarter to down SU (1-5, 0-2).

Burton was the lone bright spot for the visitors as his second tally of the game vaulted him past Shawn Scattergood ’99 for first place on the all-time list. Scattergood had held the record with 84 goals.

In addition to Burton’s hat trick, Shenandoah received two goals from senior Yaquay Brooks (Annandale, Va./Annandale) and Chris Keller (Smithsburg, Md./Smithsburg) chipped in with a pair of assists.

Keller is now 30 points from passing Scattergood for first place on the all-time scoring list. The junior took Scattergood’s assist title away with a six assist performance this past Saturday in a 20-13 loss at Neumann College.

The Hornets will host their first PAC opponent of the season Friday night when Cabrini College visits Shentel Stadium for a 6:30 pm contest.

Women’s Lacrosse

AMHERST, Va. – Much like its softball counterparts, the women’s lacrosse team continues to search for its first win of the season after Sweet Briar dropped SU to 0-4 on the year with a 14-3 victory.

Shenandoah trailed just 5-2 at halftime and 6-3 early in the second half before the Vikens (4-4) reeled off eight straight goals to finish off its visitors.

Senior Megan Tupper (Bowie, Md./Anne Arundel CC) had two goals and junior Christine LaTouche (Elkton, Va./Spotswood) the other for SU. Goalkeeper Bridget Robbins (Baker, W.Va./East Hardy) continued her strong play with 13 saves.

Box Score

SU hosts Hood on Friday at 4:00 in a non-conference contest.

Shenandoah University offers 16 intercollegiate sports, eight for men and eight for women. For further information, please contact the Office of Athletic Communications at 540-665-5417 or visit our web site at http://www.su.edu/athletics. For Dixie Conference Information, please visit the Dixie Conference home page: http://www.dixieconference.com.

Shenandoah University is a comprehensive Level V private university with an enrollment of approximately 2,500 students in five schools: School of Arts & Sciences, Harry F. Byrd Jr. School of Business, Shenandoah Conservatory, Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy and the School of Health Professions (Athletic Training, Nursing, Physician Assistant, Respiratory Care, Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy). The University offers more than 60 programs of study at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels.