Box Score

Senior Casey Armstrong scored four points in the first 6:29 and the Muhlenberg women's lacrosse team never looked back, recording its first Centennial Conference win of the season with an impressive 18-10 home defeat of Washington.

Like Muhlenberg, the Shorewomen (6-5, 1-2) have received votes in the Division III national poll this year. They also have qualified for the CC playoffs each of the last five years and defeated the Mules each of those five years, although four of the games were decided by three goals or fewer.

Armstrong finished with seven goals and three assists for 10 points, tying the career high she set against Ursinus in 2014 and matched against Washington last year. She tied the school record for career 10-point games and moved into third place on the program's all-time scoring list with 219 career points.

Junior Kelsey Nagle scored five points on two goals and three assists, and sophomore Jordy Bonvini finished with three goals, an assist and eight draw controls. Juniors Nora Fisher and Stephanie D'Ascoli netted a pair of goals apiece.

Junior Sara Allison made a career-high 11 saves in goal. Senior Amanda Orlak (pictured above) intercepted two passes and picked up a team-leading three ground balls, and freshman Caroline Dolan played an excellent game on defense, holding Washington's leading scorer - the sixth-leading scorer in the CC - without a point.

Orlak's first interception ended the Shorewomen's first possession, and by the time they touched the ball again, they were down five goals. Armstrong scored on a free-position shot 2:02 into the game, and Bonvini went straight to goal after winning the ensuing draw to make it 2-0 just 18 seconds later.

Armstrong fed Bonvini for the third goal a little more than a minute later, then scored twice herself to complete the opening 5-0 blitz.

Washington closed to within four three times, the last at 7-3 with 17:15 left in the half, but the Mules (8-3, 1-3) reeled off the next five goals to extend their lead to nine.

The Shorewomen, who last year came back from a three-goal halftime deficit to beat Muhlenberg, put in three of the first four goals of the second half to make the score 14-7. The Mules quashed the uprising promptly, getting free-position goals from freshman Amanda Tullo and Nagle 17 seconds apart to regain their commanding lead.