Whitney Richards' Career Day Leads Women's Lacrosse Over UC Davis, 12-9 :: The senior tallies six goals and one assist

March 13, 2008

Davis, Calif.- Senior Whitney Richards continued her offensive dominance on Thursday afternoon, scoring six goals and assisting on one other to lead the Temple women's lacrosse team (3-2) to a 12-9 win over UC Davis (2-5). Five of Richards' six tallies came in the first half to help the Owls to a 8-6 halftime lead. She now has 11 goals on the week.

Berkley Summerlin had two goals and an assist, while Brittany Hoffman netted two goals. Hillary Richards and Janell Myers each contributed one goal and one assist and Alison Incarnato dished one assist.

Whitney Richards started off the scoring for the Owls just two and a half minutes into the game, sparking a 5-0 Temple run. UC Davis finally got on the board at the 15 minute mark and scored three straight to close the gap to two goals. Richards was Temple's lone offensive power for the remainder of the half, netting three more goals and allowing the Owls to stay just one step again of UC Davis.

Hoffman got TU on the second half board at 2:41, after taking a pass from Hillary Richards, making the score 9-6 in favor of TU. UC Davis' Christina Corso stopped the two goal run for Temple with a tally at 6:59 but the Owls responded with yet another two goal run to take an 11-7 lead with just under 10 minutes to play. Davis outscored Temple, 2-1 over the final 10 minutes of the game but it was too little, too late, as the Owls rolled to their second straight win, 12-9.

Bridget McMullan had five saves in goal for Temple, while UC Davis' Hilary Harkins posted seven saves.

Temple returns home to host Delaware on Tuesday at 3 p.m.