LEXINGTON, Va. -- Senior midfielder Kitt Murphy (New York, N.Y./St. Catherines) scored two goals and added an assist to help propel the Washington and Lee field hockey team into the ODAC tournament semifinals with a 4-2 win over Bridgewater on Saturday afternoon at the W&L Turf Field.

The Eagles (8-10) struck first on an unassisted goal by freshman midfielder Mandy Nixon (Virginia Beach, Va.) with 9:29 gone-by. With 2:11 remaining in the first half, the Generals (9-8) tied the game at 1-1 when junior midfielder Jane Beall (Richmond, Va./James River) scored off a feed from Murphy.

Beall scored her second goal of the game just 51 seconds into the second stanza to give W&L a 2-1 lead. Senior forward Kristen Brown (Baltimore, Md./Catonsville) assisted on the goal. After Murphy scored at 41:32 to give the Generals a 3-1 advantage, Bridgewater sliced the deficit to 3-2 when Nixon scored at 48:56 but the Eagles wouldn't get any closer. Murphy iced the game with an unassisted goal at the 62:19 mark.

Generals' junior goalkeeper Courtney Harrison (Ricmond, Va./Collegiate) made one save while junior netminder Frankee Waldron (Orrington, Maine/Bangor) stopped 11 shots for the Eagles.

W&L outshot Bridgewater, 17-3, and held a 15-7 advantage in penalty corners.

Washington and Lee will face the winner of the Virginia Wesleyan/Randolph-Macon game in the ODAC semifinals on Fri., Nov. 5 at Lynchburg College. The time of the game is still to be determined.

-- GENERALS --

GOALS
W&L - Jane Beall (2), Kitt Murphy (2)
BC - Mandy Nixon (2)

ASSISTS
W&L - Kitt Murphy, Kristen Brown, S.B. Northen, Elisabeth Putney
BC - Erin Spadaro, Karen Hammerschmidt

GOALKEEPERS
Courtney Harrison (W&L) - 70:00, 2 GA, 1 Save
Frankee Waldron (BC) - 70:00, 4 GA, 11 Saves

TEAM STATS
W&L - 17 shots, 15 penalty corners, 0 penalty strokes, 0 cards
BC - 3 shots, 7 penalty corners, 0 penalty strokes, 0 cards