The Cabrini women’s lacrosse team opened their season with a 17-6 loss to Haverford College on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at Haverford.
Just three minutes into the first half, Haverford kicked off the scoring and took an early 1-0 lead with a goal from Hannah Morgan, her first of the season.
Three minutes later, Diana Perry increased Haverford’s lead to 2-0 with her first goal of the season.
Less than a minute later, Perrin Downing scored her first goal of the season, increasing Haverford’s lead to 3-0.
Seven minutes into the half, the Cavaliers scored their first goal on a shot from Nathalie Basunga, assisted by Lacie Doubet, bringing the score to 3-1.
Haverford increased their lead to 4-1 on a goal by Kenny Likes, her first of the season, 10 minutes into the first half.
With 11 minutes remaining in the half, Haverford scored again with a goal from Dayna Kim, her first of the season, making the score 8-1.
Less than a minute after that, the Cavaliers scored their second goal of the game on a shot from Lacie Doubet.
With nine minutes remaining, Perry scored her second goal for Haverford, followed quickly by Likes’ second goal assisted by Kim and Morgan’s fifth goal, with an assist from Christina Gould. This brought the score to 11-2 within a matter of 30 seconds.
Gould also got into the action, scoring her first goal of the game with less than four minutes remaining in the half.
With time ticking and less than 30 seconds remaining in the first half, Downing scored her second goal to close out the scoring in the first half. The Lady Cavs went into halftime down, 14-2.
However, the second half proved to be better for the Lady Cavs, as they were the first to score in the second half, courtesy of a goal by Bree Thompson three minutes into the half, bringing the score to 14-3.
Thompson scored again for Cabrini 10 minutes into the half to cut Haverford’s lead to 14-4.
However, less than two minutes later, Haverford increased their lead again to 15-4 thanks to Morgan’s sixth goal, assisted by Perry.
After seven minutes with no scoring, Gould got her second goal for Haverford, making the score 16-4.
Six minutes later, the Lady Cavs scored their fifth goal thanks to Katie Lasater.
Haverford scored their final goal to bring the score to 17-5 on Kim’s second goal, assisted by Perry with less than five minutes remaining in the game.
Basunga closed out the scoring for the Lady Cavs and the game with under three minutes to go, bringing the final score to 17-6, resulting in a loss in the season opener to Haverford.
“We did not have a very good first half, but our second half was much better,” head coach Jackie Neary said. “The game gave us a lot of things to focus on during spring training. We need to work on putting two solid halves together.”
