BOX SCORE
RADFORD, Va. -- Marlee Schramm (West Deptford, N.J./West Deptford) scored two of Radford's four unanswered goals, powering the Highlanders to a 5-3 triumph over Davidson in NorPac Field Hockey action, Friday evening from RU Hockey Field.
After the Highlanders (7-7, 2-2 NorPac East) fell behind 3-1 in the 22nd minute, they would rattle off four straight, which included the game-tying and game-winning scores off the stick of Schramm. Her tallies pushed her season total to five, while classmate
Lynsey Daughtrey (Suffolk, Va./Lakeland) assisted on both scores and added a goal herself.
Senior
Courtney Poole (Gloucester, Va./Gloucester) sparked the rally, scoring her sixth goal of the season just 34 seconds after Meg Jarrell's strike put the Wildcats up, 3-1 at 21:24. Poole's score came on a nice individual effort as she dribbled in from the left and scooted a low shot far post.
Schramm knotted the game at 3-3 with just under three minutes to play in what was a wild first half. She blasted a shot on a corner that went right through the post defender's stick.
The senior midfielder would strike again in the 43rd minute, scoring in almost the same fashion as she ripped a low shot through a crowd and into the boards for the Highlanders' first lead of the contest.
Her game-winner was made possible by two early saves by
Sidney Ecarnacion (Williamsburg, Va./Walsingham Academy) during back-to-back Davidson penalty corners in the first three minutes of the second stanza.
Senior
Melissa Register (Culpeper, Va./Culpeper County) capped off the scoring with her team-leading seventh goal at the 47:35 mark. Register deflected classmate
Madonna Wadolowski's (Norwalk, Conn./Brien McMahan) feed high into the cage for an insurance goal.
Encarnacion made consecutive saves 30 seconds apart in the 52nd minute to keep the Wildcats from gaining any momentum the rest of the way.
Radford doubled up Davidson on shots, 26-13 and held a 15-9 advantage in corners. Register charted a game-high eight shots with Finley Amato tallying a team-best seven for the Wildcats.
Davidson keeper Sarah Fisher made 11 saves and Encarnacion finished with four stops, all in the second half.
The teams entered the break tied at 3-3. After Davidson's Annie Evans and Radford's Daughtrey traded goals 1:07 apart in the 13th and 14th minutes, Amato and Jarell scored just over four minutes apart, before Poole's and Schramm's scores made the match even going into the break.
Poole's score moved her into fifth on the program's all-time goals list with 25 and into a three-way for sixth with 53 points. Wadolowski's helper brought her school record to 25 and she sits in ninth on the all-time points list. Daughtrey's two helpers moved her into fifth on the all-time list with 18.
Radford wraps up its home schedule on Sunday at 2 p.m., host Longwood. The Highlanders will recognize their senior class prior to the contest.