Women’s Lacrosse: No. 13 Virginia falls 22-15 to No. 1 Boston College

Courtesy UVA Media Relations

The No. 13 Virginia women’s lacrosse team (2-3, 0-1 ACC) dropped its ACC opener 22-15 to No. 1 Boston College (4-0, 1-0 ACC) on Wednesday afternoon at Klöckner Stadium.

Freshman Rachel Clark led UVA with five goals. Senior Courtlynne Caskin had five points on three goals and two assists. Senior Ashlyn McGovern also had five points, scoring four goals with one assist.

Virginia led in draw controls (27-14) and saves (6-4), but BC had the edge in shots (26-22) and ground balls (22-8). The Cavaliers had 20 turnovers to seven for BC. Charlotte North had a game-high six goals for the Eagles.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Caskin’s goal at 7:21 in the first quarter sparked a 4-0 run over 2:26 as the Cavaliers took a 4-3 lead over BC.
• Caskin assisted Clark on a goal just eight seconds after she put UVA on the board. Caskin scored her second just over a minute later and Clark scored her second of the afternoon with 4:55 to go in the first quarter.
• The Cavaliers scored back-to-back goals after BC tied it up 4-4 to take a 6-4 lead. Caskin scored her third of the quarter then senior Annie Dyson found McGovern for her first of the day.
• UVA led 6-5 at the end of the first quarter.
• Sophomore Jaime Biskup gave UVA a 7-6 lead. McGovern scored the next three goals for the Cavaliers, including back-to-back goals in 16 seconds, to put UVA ahead 10-8 with 3:20 to go in the second quarter.
• Virginia led 10-9 at halftime. McGovern had four goals and Caskin led the Cavaliers with five points in the first half.
• BC outscored UVA 6-1 in the third quarter to take a 15-11 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
• Clark scored her fourth goal of the game 41 seconds into the fourth quarter.
• Senior Braeden Dial scored with 8:53 to play to cut BC’s lead to 18-13.
• Clark and freshman Kate Miller scored to close out the game.

FROM HEAD COACH JULIE MYERS

“Beautiful day for an awesome game. We played pretty well for a majority of the game, the hardes part was every time we made a mistake on our turnovers, they turned it into a goal. Having 20 turnovers is too many. A lot of them under pressure and when we were trying to make plays, so I don’t fault the effort, but it was hard to stop them in their transition game. BC is obviously the team to beat. I feel like we learned today. That is the most important thing, is that we take what we need from each game and try to get better every day. Even though our results don’t show that, that is what we are doing so we are trying to keep it in perspective, learn along the way and keep fighting. I thought we were resilient. We fought the entire time, we never put our heads down or gave up. BC is a tough team, and we have lots of positive things to hold on to but we need to watch film and learn as much as we can.”

UP NEXT

Virginia hosts Stanford on Sunday at 11 a.m. at Klòckner Stadium. The game will be streamed live on ACCNX.