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ODAC Field Hockey Report: Week 2

It may have taken overtime – at the final 30 seconds of overtime at that – but nationally 11th-ranked Shenandoah earned a win in its lone game of the week to remain as the only unbeaten program in the ODAC at 3-0. Lynchburg and Randolph-Macon are 2-1, while Roanoke, Virginia Wesleyan, and Washington and Lee all picked up their first victories of the season over the past six days.

  • JULIA MCDONALD | WASHINGTON AND LEE | GK
    McDonald, a senior from Guilford, Conn., helped Washington and Lee to a 1-1 week with 19 saves over two one-goal games against Denison University and nationally sixth-ranked Christopher Newport University. McDonald was only beaten by a penalty stroke in a 2-1 win over the Big Red, coming up with one save in the only other shot on goal she faced in her 60-minute shift. At CNU, the story was very different in a 1-0 loss to the Captains. McDonald and the Generals defense was consistently under pressure with 32 shots fired at WLU's cage. She registered a career-best 18 saves, which marks the fourth-most in a single contest in Generals history, tying the 2012 and 2009 marks set by Kirsten Kyne and Caroline Habliston, respectively.

  • LANDRY MEYER | VIRGINIA WESLEYAN | F
    Meyer, a junior from Virginia Beach, Va., helped the Marlins to a 1-1 week that featured Virginia Wesleyan's first win of 2025. Following a 2-0 road loss at St. Mary's (Md.), Meyer exploded for a seven-point outing in a 6-0 triumph over Sewanee in a neutral outing hosted by Bridgewater College. She scored three goals and dished out an assist on a fourth. Meyer opened the game's scoring just 3:58 from the first whistle for one of two VWU first-half goals. In the 37th minute, Meyer assisted Gabriella Ortiz on the Marlins third tally and scored Virginia Wesleyan's next two goals in the 45th and 48th minutes.

    • Terranie Bennett came up with two defensive saves in EMU's 4-0 loss to Oberlin
    • Roanoke goalkeeper Chloe Miller made her first two collegiate starts and earned a shutout in a 2-0 win over Concordia-Wisconsin, while forward Ella Cosgrove scored one of those goals and dished out the assist on the other
    • Shenandoah midfielder Claudia Lenahan stayed red hot with two assists in a 3-2 double-overtime win over Washington College including the helper on the game-winner
    • Sweet Briar defender Carlina Christy made the third defensive save of her career early in the first quarter against Oberlin, keeping the score at 0-0
Julia McDonald
Landry Meyer