Hawks, Bombers and Pioneers Score Double Digits
Hartwick 17, Houghton 6
Nine Hawks recorded at least a point as Hartwick's women's lacrosse team defeated visiting Houghton College by a score of 17-6 on Saturday at Wright Stadium. The Hawks took the lead 1:15 into the game and never looked back as they led by eight goals at halftime. They led by as many as 12 in the second half in the victory.
Freshman
Lauren Rosenberg equaled a season high with five goals to pace the Hartwick attack.
Meg Luce registered three goals and an assist,
Meagan Wright had three goals,
Emily Jweid recorded two tallies and two assists, and
Kia Ference picked up a goal and a game-high three helpers.
Hartwick took control from the opening draw as
Ali Sisco, Wright, Luce, and Rosenberg all scored inside of five minutes to give the Hawks a quick 4-0 advantage. Amanda Zacchigna, who scored a team-high three goals for Houghton on the day, got the Highlanders on the scoreboard at 21:57.
Wright and Ference added to the Hartwick total with goals at 19:45 and 16:18 before Nicole Mason and Jessica McDowell tallied for the visitors 1:03 apart to cut the deficit to 6-3. The Hawks, however, would build the lead back up as they tallied six times in the final 12 minutes of the half. Jweid and Rosenberg each found the net twice with Luce and
Lisa Littleton also scoring to put Hartwick in front 12-4 at halftime.
Rosenberg and Luce each scored on free-position shots to make it a 10-goal game early in the second half. Tyler Reese scored for Houghton at 24:23 and after almost 10 minutes of scoreless action, Rosenberg and Luce scored 61 ticks apart for a 16-5 lead.
Megan Young finished off the Hawks' final goal with six minutes left and Zacchigna tacked on Houghton's sixth goal with 22 seconds remaining to produce the final score.
Hartwick out-shot Houghton 39-20 in the game. The Hawks edged the Highlanders 24-22 in ground balls and led decisively in draw controls, 17-8.
Hawk goalkeepers
Steph Luce,
April Hargy, and
Carla Centanni combined for nine saves in the victory. Luce stopped three shots in 31 minutes, Hargy stopped a career-best five shots in 21 minutes, and Centanni made one save in eight minutes.
Jweid gathered a career-high 11 draw controls for Hartwick. No other player on the field had more than two. Sisco and
Caroline Stanford each had four ground balls and caused two turnovers. Ference added three ground balls for 'Wick.
Ithaca 12, Nazareth 5
The 15th-ranked Ithaca College women's lacrosse team (7-4, 3-0 Empire 8) notched a 12-5 victory over host Nazareth (4-7, 1-2 Empire 8) Saturday. The win was Ithaca's sixth in a row.
The Bombers held a 10-2 gap at intermission, highlighted by a 6-0 run over a nine-minute span. The Golden Flyers tallied back-to-back scores, but Ithaca closed out the half with four unanswered. Two additional Bomber scores opened the second period to instate a 10-goal gap and a running clock at 20:03. Four minutes passed before Nazareth netted their first of three consecutive. Both teams were scoreless in the final 11:52 of play.
Junior
Delaney Gilson scored a career-best three goals and senior
Becky Guzzo posted a game-high four-point performance on two goals and two assists to lead the Bombers. Sophomore
Ally Runyon scored a pair of goals and added an assist. Classmate
Riley Marion and junior
Molly Fischer tallied one and one. Junior
Niki Standera, sophomore
Taylor Purvis and freshman
Morgan Cadwell accounted for the Bombers' other three scores.
Freshman
Emily Ross earned the win in goal with an eight-save performance. She had a season-high seven ground balls. Standera and junior
Natalie Lang each collected four. Lang added a career-best three caused turnovers, while senior
Jenna Marchinetti, junior
Laura Scalzi and Standera forced two each.
Ithaca owned a 33-17 gap in shots and 31-18 edge in ground balls. Each team won nine draws, while Nazareth committed 21 turnovers to Ithaca's 13. Ithaca was just 2-for-7 in free-position attempts.
Utica 15, Alfred 4
The Utica College women's lacrosse team moved its win streak to three games as it downed Alfred University 15-4 in Empire 8 Conference action Saturday afternoon. Junior
Megan Kane led the way with five points for the Pioneers.
UC improves to 8-3 overall and 3-2 in the E8 Conference. UC is now just one win shy of its single-season program record of nine wins that it reached one year ago. Utica has now outscored its opponents 34-6 in the last two games.
The Pioneers got off to a quick start as they scored ten goals in the first half for the second straight outing. Just 40 seconds into the game, junior
Louise Steele-Norton tallied her fifth of the year to give Utica a 1-0 lead. Two minutes later, classmate
Morgan DuPont found the back of the net for her fifth of the season. UC continued to roll as Steele-Norton added her second of the game and
Megan Kane netter three of her four goals of the day in the first half.
Patricia Kane also added two and
Jackie Gould and
Colleen Dowling each had one.
In the second half, Utica's top-three leading scorers went to work. Freshman
Rebecca Plunkett scored two goals, her 30th and 31st of the season, as well as another from
Megan Kane to move her season total to 34. DuPont, the team's assist-leader added her second goal of the game, while freshman
Amanda Chruscicki capped of the scoring with her third of the year.
DuPont,
Megan Kane,
Julia Primps,
Jennifer Rogaski, and
Vanessa Maines each had one assist on the day.
Megan Kane and sophomore
Lisa Howden each had monster days at the faceoff circle as each totaled five draw controls.
Erin Jacobson and
Tewasherake Barnes combined to allow just four goals in the win, while their counterpart, Taylor Tarajos, made eight saves in the loss. Kaitlyn Button scored all four goals for the Saxons, who drop to 1-6 overall and are winless in the conference with a 0-3 record.
Team Standings
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SCHOOL |
CONF |
OVERALL |
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Stevens |
4-0 |
6-6 |
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Ithaca |
3-0 |
7-4 |
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St. John Fisher |
3-1 |
8-3 |
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Utica |
3-2 |
8-3 |
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Nazareth |
1-2 |
4-7 |
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Elmira |
1-3 |
4-7 |
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Hartwick |
0-4 |
5-8 |
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Houghton |
0-0 |
3-8 |
|
Alfred |
0-3 |
1-6 |
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Houghton is an NCAA provisional member and games against the Highlanders will not impact conference records/standings.
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