Ithaca in Sole Possession of First; Elmira Soars Past Alfred
ITHACA 13, STEVENS 6
The 16th-ranked Ithaca College women's lacrosse team (9-4, 4-0 Empire 8) tallied a 13-6 victory at Stevens Institute of Technology (6-7, 4-1 Empire 8) Friday afternoon. The Bombers are on an eight-game winning streak and have won 19 consecutive Empire 8 contests. Ithaca last lost a regular-season E8 game on April 22, 2011 to Nazareth. With the win, Ithaca secured sole possession of first place in the league standings.
The Bombers jumped out to a commanding 6-0 lead. Stevens netted their first with one minute lingering in the first half for a 6-1 Bomber gap at intermission. The Ducks tallied first in the second half to pull within four, but Ithaca posted three scores in six minutes to power to a 9-2 lead. Scoring four of the next five goals, Stevens snuck within 10-6, but Ithaca put away three additional scores for the 13-6 victory.
Senior
Becky Guzzo led the game with a four-point performance with one score and three assists. Sophomores
Ally Runyon and
Riley Marion and junior
Molly Fischer, each recorded hat tricks. Juniors
Natalie Lang and
Delaney Gilson added two and one, respectively. Freshman
Morgan Cadwell dished out one assist. Runyon led the team with three draws, while Lang and senior
Anya Eckhardt won two apiece. The trio collected three ground balls each.
Defensively, seven Bombers caused one turnover each, while freshman
Emily Ross secured the win in goal. She made seven saves.
The Bombers held a 31-21 advantage in shots and had 21 ground balls to Stevens' 16. The Ducks won 11 of 21 draws.
ELMIRA 16, ALFRED 5
The Elmira College women's lacrosse (5-8, 2-3 E8) team's offense was firing on all cylinders this afternoon as the Soaring Eagles defeated Alfred University (1-7, 0-5 E8) 16-5.
Ashton Hogan '15 set a new career-high with seven goals scored while
Moorea Spoljaric '16 established a new career-high with eight points, coming in the form of five goals and three assists.
Hogan also added an assist in today's game giving her a career-high eight points against the Saxons. Joining Hogan and Spoljaric in the scoring column were
Kylie Connell '17, who scored twice,
Sami Risi '14, and
Bridget Keefe '14.
Spoljaric and Hogan opened the first half with back-to-back goals in the first five minutes of play to give the Soaring Eagles a 2-0 lead, but Alfred would make it a one-goal game just 36 seconds later. It took several minutes for either team to register their next goal, but after Hogan found the back of the net with 19:17 to play in the first half, EC rattled off three additional unanswered goals, one each from Hogan, Risi, and Spoljaric, to break open a 6-1 advantage.
Alfred's Kaitlyn Button, who scored the Saxons' first goal of the half, would help Alfred break through the smothering EC defense to complete her hat trick and make it a 6-3 game with 5:43 to play in the opening half. But Keefe would answer for the Soaring Eagles just before halftime with her third goal of the season, giving the Purple and Gold a 7-3 halftime lead.
The Saxons got the first score of the second half as Janelle Gallipeau slipped a shot past EC goaltender
LeAnna Presler '14 2:14 in, but the Soaring Eagle defense would shut down Alfred's offense for the next 24 minutes as Elmira's offense took control of the game. Hogan would score three straight goals, and four of EC's next six overall, to complete her seven-goal effort. Spoljaric would net the other two in that six-goal stretch, which spanned about eight minutes of game time, helping the Purple and Gold advance their lead to 13-4.
Connell, after assisting on the first Elmira goal of the afternoon, would get in on the scoring action with her first goal of the day at the 14:50 mark which was followed by Spoljaric's fifth goal just two minutes later. Connell then wrapped-up EC's scoring with 10:57 to play with her second goal to put the Soaring Eagles ahead 16-4. Alfred would add one more goal to their final tally before the final horn sounded as the Purple and Gold would cruise to the 16-5 victory.
Presler made four saves in over 46 minutes of action to pick up her fifth victory of the year while
Lindsay Wargo '17 recorded one save in her 13-plus minutes in the net.
Team Standings
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SCHOOL |
CONF |
OVERALL |
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Ithaca |
5-0 |
9-4 |
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St. John Fisher |
4-1 |
9-4 |
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Stevens |
4-1 |
6-7 |
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Utica |
3-3 |
8-4 |
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Nazareth |
2-2 |
5-7 |
|
Elmira |
2-3 |
5-8 |
|
Hartwick |
0-5 |
5-9 |
|
Houghton |
0-0 |
4-8 |
|
Alfred |
0-5 |
1-9 |
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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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