ROANOKE, Va. - Junior Kim
Cudmore tallied a career-high 11 points as the No. 2
Salisbury University women's lacrosse team won 23-13 over Roanoke
College at Donald J. Kerr Stadium on the road Saturday.
Salisbury (9-0) led coast-to-coast in the victory and had 10
players collect at least one point. SU has won 31 consecutive
regular-season games since 2007. Cudmore led the way with a
game-high six goals and five assists in the 11-goal win. Her goal,
assist and point total is the most by a Sea Gull in a single game
this season. Sophomore attacker Logan Bilderback
matched Cudmore with four assists as she scored four goals of her
own. Bilderback's eight points is a new career-high. Junior
attacker Beth Rhodey recorded four goals and two
assists while senior midfielder Robyn Bishop
netted three goals. Rhodey has scored nine goals in the past two
games and has seven multiple-goal games this season. Freshman
Sarah Clemmens and senior Ashleigh
Gender both had two goals in the win while senior
Courtney Sorensen and junior Stephanie
Cahill added a goal apiece.
SU jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead five minutes into the contest
before Roanoke's Brooks Laufman (four goals) scored an unassisted
goal at the 25:01 mark. The teams would trade goals until four
minutes remained in the half when Rhodey buried her third goal of
the game to give SU a seven-goal advantage, 11-4. SU went into the
half up six, 12-6.
Roanoke (5-4) scored three of the first four goals to begin the
second half as the Maroons cut the Salisbury lead to just four,
13-9. Moments later SU went on a 4-0 run midway through the half on
goals by Bilderback and three from Cudmore to give the Sea Gulls a
20-11 lead. SU scored three of the final four goals to surpass the
20-goal mark for the sixth time this season.
Senior goalie Sonja Stuart (eight saves) picked
up her seventh win of the season as she played the entire game.
Roanoke goalie Kaitlyn Scarlett (six saves) suffered the loss in
net for the Maroons. Roanoke's Gina Valles led the Maroons with
four goals and two assists while Paige Mason (one goal) had a
team-high three assists.
Salisbury returns home to host No. 11 Colby College on Tuesday,
March 24, at 4 p.m. at Sea Gull Stadium.
