Marky Boyce (Woodbridge, Va.) scored the seventh goal of her freshman season, but the Lady Bucs fell 5-1 Monday at Longwood in their final non-conference game of the regular season.

The Bucs got off to the stronger start of the two teams initially, with Jen Vroman (Piscataway, N.J.) going wide in the 4th minute and Caitlin Gunyan (Rockville Center, N.Y.) firing wide to the right on the stroke of 11:00. However, the best chance of this game's infancy belonged to Michelle Dennis (Ann Arbor, Mich.), who was denied her 10th goal on the year by the crossbar.

Following the near miss, Longwood's Lancers began to play like the team that had only been beaten once in its last seven games. After two off target shots, the Lancers would strike first when Katie Devlin scored her first career goal for LU by placing the ball over the outstretched hands of Jena Uvalle (Mt. Dora, Fla.) off a corner kick.

The goal seemed to take the air out of the CSU balloon, as the majority of the half would be controlled by the home-standing Lancers. Longwood picked up two more goals for their efforts, with Lauren Trizna scoring on a free kick and Ingrid Hale, a high school teammate of CSU's Alyssa Clay (Littleton, Colo.), beating Uvalle after direct passes up the field from two of her teammates.

CSU began to swing the play slightly towards the end of the half, highlighted by Sarah Catenacci (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.) forcing Longwood keeper Anne Whitmore to make her first save of the day. The positive vibes would carry over into the second period, when in the 50th minute Boyce would pounce on a loose ball in the box and finish past Whitmore to enhance an already impressive freshman year resume.

As has been the case with CSU lately, more goals would follow very quickly after this marker. Unfortunately for the Bucs, it would be Longwood that would record two more goals in the aftermath of Boyce's tally. The first came just over one minute after Boyce's goal when Michelle DeSieno scored on a rebound past Alyssa Budros (Traverse City, Mich.), who was handed goaltending duties for the second half. Then, nine minutes later in the 60th, Tia Nardella scored the final goal of the day, rifling a ball into the upper right net from 20 yards out.

With two very important conference matches ahead later this week, Eric Terrill and the squad used the remaining 30 minutes to rest several key contributors. Among the rested included Emma Mattsson (Helsingborg, Sweden), Boyce, Jessica Kim (Austin, Tex.) and Brittany Bolick (Boone, N.C.) The bench was a very unfamiliar place for the defending duo of Bolick and Kim especially, as Bolick had yet to miss a minute of play this year, while Kim had only missed a brief amount of time earlier in the season against the College of Charleston due to injury.

After Catenacci forced a second save from a Longwood keeper, this time from Marcia Biddle, and Christine Bethke (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) missed her first goal on the year wide to the left in the 79:00 mark, the final seconds ticked away on what will be a disappointing trip to the Commonwealth of Virginia for the Lady Bucs.

However, the Bucs still have everything to play for over the course of the next two weeks as they return to conference play. Each and every game will take place in the Lowcountry, beginning with a rescheduled Halloween showdown with the High Point Panthers (8-6-2, 4-1 in the Big South) on Wednesday at 3 P.M. at Buccaneer Field.