Women's Soccer Defeats VMI 5-1 On Senior Night

Senior Midfielder Anna Gravely Tallies Two Goals, One Assist Against Keydets

October 18, 2006

FARMVILLE, Va. -- Longwood University took a 5-1 women’s soccer victory past visiting VMI Wednesday on SENIOR NIGHT at the Athletics Complex in Farmville. It was the seventh win in nine matches for the Lancers who improved their record to 10-5-2, their first 10-win campaign since 2002 while the Keydets dropped to 4-10. Longwood will play its regular-season finale at United Soccer Conference East rival South Carolina State University next Friday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m..

Against VMI, Longwood scored the first two goals of the match and led 3-1 at the intermission en route to the home win as the Lancers finished the season 7-1-1 at the new Athletics Complex. Senior Anna Gravely/Virginia Beach (Frank W. Cox) opened the scoring at 4:45 on a shot to the upper 90, assisted by freshman Kaylyn Mahon/Spring Grove, Pa. (Spring Grove). Senior Tiffany Crane/Virginia Beach (Kellam) scored what proved to be the game-winner at 16:51, assisted by Gravely on a breakaway while beating the keeper. VMI prevented the shutout less than two minutes later when Audrey Falconi took a loose ball inside the box and beat the keeper for a goal at 18:29. The Lancers added their third goal of the half at 29:10 as Crane tallied again on a similar goal to her first score, assisted by freshman Tia Nardella/Brookline, Mass. (Brookline).

Longwood added two more goals in the second half, the first coming as Gravely scored her second goal of the match at 63:04 with a shot over the keeper’s head, assisted by Crane. Mahon finished the scoring at 73:24 with an assist from classmate Sarah Fening/Manassas (Battlefield) as the Lancers defeated VMI for the third time since 2003 (3-0).

Longwood took a 22-6 advantage in shots, and had a 6-1 edge in corner kicks. Senior keeper Heather Storrie/Spring Grove, Pa. (Spring Grove) (88:22, 1ga) played almost the entire match in front of the net for the Lancers before leaving late with three saves. Redshirt-sophomore Emily Grove/Farmville (Prince Edward) (1:38) finished the match in goal. VMI split time between Kathleen Underwood (45:00, 3ga) who played the first half with one save and Jessica Rheinlander (45:00, 2ga) who played the second half with six saves.

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