Wingate, N.C.----Wingate junior midfielder Brittany Andrews (Bel Air, Md.) netted a total of six goals on the afternoon to lead the offensive attack as the Bulldogs claimed a South Atlantic Conference women's lacrosse road victory over the Brevard College Tornados at the Brevard Lacrosse Field Saturday. Wingate improves to 11-4 overall and 5-2 in the SAC. Brevard falls to 9-6 and 4-4 in SAC play.
 
Andrews encored her seven-goal performance against North Greenville on Wednesday night and increases her team-leading season total to 55 goals. Redshirt sophomore attack Shannon O'Neal (Severna Park, Md.) finished second on the WU team total list with four tallies on the afternoon. She now has 34 goals on the season.
 
"Today was a great team effort," Wingate head women's lacrosse coach Caline McHenry Olmsted says. "Laura Swanson and Arion Pierre did a tremendous job on defense, while Brittie and Shannon did well finishing their shots. I am proud of our consistent effort throughout the entire game."

BC struck first in the contest on a score from sophomore defenseman Kelly Kearnan (Mooresville, N.C.) to take an early 1-0 lead with 27:39 left in the first half. The Bulldogs then commenced a run of five unanswered goals and never looked back to gain a 5-1 advantage at the 17:30 mark in the first half of play. The first four tallies of this run were all scored by Andrews.
 
The Tornados ended the WU consecutive goal streak with back-to-back scores to cut the lead to 5-3 with 13:54 in the first. The 'Dogs answered with consecutive insurance tallies of their own to push the margin out to 7-3 at the 9:18 mark in the first. BC then trimmed the margin down to three goals, thanks to Kearnan's second goal of the contest to make it a 7-4 game with 8:50 to go in the first half. Kearnan led Brevard with three goals Saturday.
 
Wingate then netted back-to-back tallies to gain a 9-4 advantage with 58 seconds remaining in the half. The Bulldogs maintained the five-goal lead going into the halftime break.
 
The Tornados would begin the second half of play with a goal to make it a 9-5 contest at the 27:06 mark. The 'Dogs then responded with four consecutive scores to jump out to a 13-5 advantage. A tally by Brevard would cut the margin down to 13-6 with 8:42 in the second half. The Bulldogs then scored consecutive goals to take a 15-6 lead and seal the deal.
 
WU junior midfielder Paulena Dempsey (Jarrettsville, Md.) totaled three goals on the afternoon to add on to her break-out season total at 51 tallies. She is second on the 2016 WU scoring list behind Andrews.
 
Wingate freshman goalkeeper Arion Pierre (Haymarket, Va.) posted nine saves and picked up the win. She went the distance Saturday. Brevard sophomore goalie Shelby Arsenault (Shallow Lake, Ontario) recorded seven saves and took the loss. She also played the full 60 minutes.
 
The Wingate University women's lacrosse team is back in action at home Saturday, April 23, for a Senior Day match-up against SAC foe the Tusculum College Pioneers. First draw control is slated for 1 p.m.
 
(Wingate University sports information/sports network student assistant Jackson Kaplan contributed this article. A freshman from Raleigh, Kaplan is a Communication Studies major at Wingate. He is the son of Harrison and Dona Kaplan.)