BRIDGEWATER, Va. -- The Bridgewater College women's lacrosse team opened up its home slate with a 12-4 win over Goucher on a rainy and dreary Saturday afternoon.

THE BASICS
Final Score: Bridgewater 12, Goucher 4
Records: Bridgewater 3-2; Goucher 1-4

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Eagles scored the game's first goal as Jenna Entsminger scored off a feed from Annika Benson to give BC a 1-0 edge less than four minutes into the contest. The Gophers matched that goal with one from Emily Burk at the 9:13 mark to tie the game, but Bridgewater took the lead again almost immediately as Benson scored with an assist from Grace Pietro to take a 2-1 lead. The next five minutes ticked away without a goal before Burk got her second of the game to tie things up a 2-2 with 3:44 on the clock. The Eagles were able to get another one before the end of the opening quarter as Benson scored her second in a man-up situation to give BC a 3-2 edge after the first 15 minutes.
• Halfway through the second quarter, the Crimson & Gold doubled its lead as Pietro fired home a man-up goal after receiving a pass from Aunnie Hacker to make it a 4-2 game. Hacker scored one of her own exactly four minutes later to increase the lead to 5-3 with 3:57 left in the half. The Gophers scored less than a minute later as Katherine Luetgens found the back of the cage after taking a pass from Amelia Lazzini to get to the halftime score of 5-3 in favor of the Eagles.
• Entsminger continued the scoring in the second half as she scored with 7:34 to go in the third with a helper from Hacker to double up the visitors 6-3. Goucher continued to battle to stay in the ball game as Makayla Batts scored with 6:38 left to keep a two-goal deficit, but Paige Mayers was able to score to push the Eagles up 7-4. One more goal came in the third as Kaity Petersheim struck to send the game to the final period with BC in front, 8-4.
• The fourth quarter was all Bridgewater as Entsminter scored off a pass from Benson to increase the lead to five goals. Petersheim followed with her second of the game at the 9:50 mark as Delaney Kerns got into the scoring action with a free-position goal at 1:29 to set the score at 11-4. Mayers added one more late goal as she scored with under seven seconds left in the contest to put Goucher away, 12-4.

GAME STATS

• Entsminger led all players with three goals to go along with two ground balls and a caused turnover.
• Petersheim, Mayers and Benson all scored a pair of goals as Hacker, Kerns and Pietro all pitched in a score, as well.
• Benson also had two assists to lead the game with four points, while Hacker had two helpers and Pietro had one.
• Mayers finished with seven ground balls, which is second-most in a single game in program history. She also caused four turnovers and grabbed four draw controls in the victory.
• Pietro grabbed five ground balls and Maisen Jenkins snagged four loose balls, while Benson, Olivia Lawrence and Ashley Venit all had three. Entsminger and Livy Daniels each had two and Petersheim, Lindsay Davis, Caris Cianelli, Addison Garrett, Brooke Hanson, Julia Frick and Aubrey Beale all collected one ground ball. 
• Cianelli was second on the Eagles with three caused turnovers, while Pietro, Jenkins, Lawrence, Venit, Entsminger, Petersheim, Frick, Beale and Julia Mohler all had one CT.
• Behind Mayers' team-high four draw controls, Lawrence grabbed three, while Petersheim had two and Pietro and Benson each had one apiece. 
• Jenkins finished a solid week as the starting goalie with nine saves on 13 shots faced, while the Gophers' Sydney Lewis stopped 14 shots in the loss.
• Bridgewater outshot Goucher 38-13, while BC had a clear advantage in ground balls, 36-16. 

UP NEXT
Bridgewater opens the ODAC schedule with a home game against Washington and Lee on Tuesday, March 12, beginning at 4 pm.