Women's Lacrosse Falls to UWEC on Saturday

by Nathan Baliva

MONMOUTH, Ill. (04/08/2023) — The Monmouth College women's lacrosse team dropped a non conference game to Wisconsin-Eau Claire 23-0 at home on Saturday. The Scots (0-9) and Blugolds (4-3) had never met in women's lacrosse.

The visitors scored 2:14 into the game and pushed the lead to 9-0 with 4:30 to go in the quarter. The 10th goal, with 1:44 to play started the running clock. At halftime, UWEC led 14-0 and they made it 16-0 after three quarters. The Blugolds scored seven times in the final quarter for the 23-0 win.

Monmouth was outshot 38-1 with Kaylee Doebert (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin) taking the only shot. Lea Selquist (Peru, Illinois) made eight saves and added three ground balls. Noelle Faulk (Elmhurst, Illinois) also had three ground balls and Olivia Turley (Carlinville, Illinois) led the Scots with one caused turnover.

The Scots are next in action on Saturday, April 15 with a MWLC game at Northwestern-Minnesota. The next home game is Wednesday, April 26 against St. Benedict.