Balanced Scoring Leads Ithaca and Utica To Wins
ITHACA v Elmira
The Ithaca College women's lacrosse team built an 11-goal lead at halftime and never looked back in a 19-4 win over Elmira College on Tuesday afternoon in a match played at Corning Community College. Ithaca is 3-4 overall and 1-1 in the Empire 8. Elmira is 0-5 on the season and 0-2 in the conference.
Ithaca scored the first seven goals of the game over the first eight minutes of play to seize control of the game. Four of those goals came on free-position shots.
Ally Runyon,
Delaney Gilson and
Riley Marion all scored twice in the opening run for the Bombers.
After the teams traded two goals, Ithaca closed the first half with a four-goal run and led 13-2 at the break. Due to the score margin, the second half was played in running time. Ithaca added six more goals and allowed just two to close out the contest.
Runyon finished the game with four goals and Marion scored three.
Gaby Berne, Gilson,
Mackenzie Robinson and
Olivia Oppenheim had two goals each.
Morgan Racicot and
Morgan Cadwell each had a goal and an assist.
Ali Woller,
Natalie Lang and
Erika Johnson each had two draw controls to help Ithaca in the possession game and Berne, Johnson and
Laura Scalzi shared the team lead by picking up three ground balls.
Emily Ross played the first half in goal for Ithaca and made one save.
Kelsey Fee and Kimberley Presuto split the goalkeeping duties in the second half. Fee had one save and Presuto made two saves.
UTICA
The Utica College women's lacrosse team outscored visiting SUNY Polytechnic Institute 12-1 in the first half and never looked back as the Pioneers cruised to an 18-3 victory at Charles A. Gaetano Stadium on Tuesday afternoon. Senior
Morgan DuPont (Wynantskill, NY/Averill Park) tied her own school-record with six assists in the victory while freshman
Brooke Miller (Rome, NY/Rome Free Academy) added a career-high four goals to pace the Pioneers.
Courtney Wheeler (Ava, NY/Rome Free Academy) and
Rebecca Plunkett (Kings Park, NY/Kings Park) each added three goals for Utica.
Wheeler and Plunkett now have six goals each in their last two outings for the Pioneers. Utica outshot the Wildcats 35-13 on the day and the Pioneers also earned a 30-15 advantage in ground balls. UC has now won three straight games as it improved to 4-2 overall on the year, including a 3-1 record at the friendly confines of Charles A. Gaetano Stadium.
The Pioneers scored the game's first 12 goals over the course of the first 28:17 of action. All four of Miller's goals came in a span of 12:53 in the first half. Wheeler netted all three of her goals in the first half, while
Tewasherake Barnes (Akwesasne, NY/Salmon River) chipped in with two goals in the first 6:01 of play. Kane and Plunkett each added a first half goal and freshman
Melissa Koch (Syracuse, NY/East Syracuse Minoa) also tallied her first collegiate goal midway through the first half of play.
SUNY Poly's Krysta Beha scored with 12 seconds to go in the first half to make the score 12-1 at the intermission. Beha also opened the second half with her team-best 18
th goal of the season to make the score 12-2 8:20 into the second half.
UC then rattled off six straight goals in a span of 14:08 to take an 18-2 lead with 6:02 left in the contest. Junior
Briana Estabrook (Tully, NY/Tully ) netted her fourth collegiate goal, and first of the season, to open the second half scoring for UC. Plunkett went on to add two more goals while
Megan Kane (Staten Island, NY/Tottenville),
Xiomara Rodriguez (Bay Shore, NY/Brentwood) and
Patricia Kane (Staten Island, NY/Tottenville) also posted one goal apiece.
Estabrook and
Amanda Muldoon (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool) each posted three caused turnovers, while
Megan Kane (Staten Island, NY/Tottenville) added five ground balls and five draw controls.
SUNY Poly's Nicole DiPiazza and Tierney McGlynn each posted three ground balls for the visitors. Cassidy Thompson stopped seven shots in 30 minutes of work between the pipes for the Wildcats. SUNY Poly's record moved to 2-2 overall after Tuesday's loss.
UC goalies
Kells Casey (Sandwich, MA/Kimball Union Academy),
Erin Jacobson (Staten Island, NY/Curtis)and
Anastacia Faso (Walden, NY/Valley Central) combined for three saves in net for the Pioneers.
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