The women's lacrosse team dropped two games on Easter weekend to Washington & Lee, 14-9 and to Salisbury, 16-6. The two road losses dropped the Maroons to 3-6 overall and 1-2 in the ODAC.

Gina Valles finished the weekend with nine goals and one assist for 10 points. She now leads the team in points (34), goals (27), caused turnovers (11) and second in assists with seven on the season.

Amanda Hutchins scored a goal in the Salisbury game and an assist in the W&L game to give her 20 points on the season. She became a member of the 100-point club at Roanoke this week and has since moved into 21^st with 113 for her career. She is three goals shy of 100 for her career.

Freshman midfielder Emily Mathews tallied five goals to help lead the #8 Washington & Lee to a 14-9 win over Roanoke College on Thursday evening at the W&L Turf Field.

Mathews scored four goals in the opening 21:35 of the game as the Generals (7-1, 3-0) raced out to a 7-1 lead with 8:25 left in the first period. Roanoke sophomore attacker Brooks Laufman scored unassisted at the 7:43 mark to make it 7-2, but the Generals added two more before the break and held a 9-3 lead at the half.

The Maroons scored three of the first four goals of the second half, including a pair by sophomore midfielder Valles to make it a 10-6 game with 16:03 remaining. However, Roanoke could get no closer the rest of the way as the Generals hung on for the five-goal victory.

Valles paced the Roanoke offense with five goals, while Laufman chipped in a pair of scores. Junior Katlyn Scarlett played the duration between the pipes, making six saves.

Salisbury had their closest game of the season against the Maroons, winning, 16-6 on Saturday. The women were within four, 9-5 with 15:47 remaining thanks to back-to-back goals by Valles. Salisbury then put the game away with six unanswered goals before Valles scored the final Maroon goal of the afternoon.

Valles was the only factor for the Maroons, leading Roanoke with four goals and one assist. Scarlett finished with 17 saves. She is now only the fourth goalie in Roanoke history with over 400 career saves (420). She is 36 away from passing Debbie Apazidis '00 for third all-time.

The women will return to conference action as they travel to Sweet Briar College on Tuesday. Game time is scheduled for 4:30 p.m.

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