The women's lacrosse team dropped a heartbreaker to Randolph-Macon, 12-11 at Donald J. Kerr Stadium on Friday evening. The loss dropped the Maroons to 3-3 overall and 1-1 in conference play. The Yellow Jackets improved to 1-4 and 1-0 in the ODAC.

In the first-ever women's lacrosse night game held at Kerr Stadium, the Maroons were down 6-4 at the half. Randolph-Macon scored the first goal of the second half to increase its lead, 7-4 just one minute into the second stanza.

The Maroons roared back to score six unanswered goals and took a 10-7 lead with 19:51 left. Brooks Laufman and Gina Valles led the second-half surge as they scored a combined five goals during that span.

R-MC's Lacy Phelps scored back-to-back goals to close its deficit to one, 10-9 at the 15:27 mark. Valles then found Laufman for her fifth goal of the game to put the Maroons up, 11-9 with 13:39 left in the game.

The Yellow Jackets scored the last three goals of the game to steal a win away from Roanoke, preventing the Maroons from their fourth win.

Laufman led the Maroons with five goals in a losing effort. Valles added four goals and a team-high two assists. Paige Mason scored a goals and dished out an assist in the loss.

Emily Kent finished with four goals to lead Randolph-Macon. Erin Claire Cassidy had one goal and a team-best four assists for the Yellow Jackets.

Katlyn Scarlett had five saves for the Maroons while Lindsay Schabert finished with seven for R-MC.

The women will host Catholic on Sunday in non-conference action at Kerr Stadium at 2 p.m. The Maroons fell to Catholic, 13-11 in 2006.

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