Conference Wins for Houghton, Nazareth, Stevens and Utica
Houghton 14, Alfred 8
A day after getting shutout on the road, Houghton women's lacrosse bounced back with a 14-8 win over Alfred University in Empire 8 action Saturday.
The win puts the Highlanders back at .500 with a 4-4 mark and a 2-1 record in E8 play.
Houghton fell behind 2-0 in this one after just four minutes and trailed 3-1 with 24:38 to play in the first half before the offense finally found its groove. The Highlanders got two goals apiece from
Jennifer Zacchigna (East Aurora, NY, East Aurora) and
Chandler Jones (Collegeville, PA, Spring-Ford) to grab a 5-3, and after another Saxon score, Houghton scored four more times to head into the locker room with a 9-4 advantage.
Elizabeth Westwood(Saugerties, NY, Saugerties) scored twice and Zacchigna added two more to give her four scores in the first half.
Alyssa Strom (Tonawanda, NY, Sweet Home) scored just 22 seconds into the second stanza, and after the Saxons pulled to within 10-5, the Highlanders got a goal from
Meghan Oswald (Penn Yan, NY, Marcus Whitman)and two more from Westwood to go up 13-5. The host Saxons scored three-straight to make it interesting, but freshman
Bethany Kuiken (Pompton Plains, NJ, Eastern Christian) got her first-career goal to finish the scoring.
Jones finished with three goals and three assists, while Zacchigna and Westwood each scored four times. Zacchigna and Oswald tallied six and five draw controls, respectively.
Kourtnie Franklin (Belfast, NY, Belfast ) stopped 12 shots to pick up the win in net.
NAZARETH 9, St. John Fisher 6
Senior
Brooke Sullivan scored three goals and senior
Ashley Kirch shined in goal with eight big saves for host Nazareth Saturday as the Golden Flyers scored a mild women's lacrosse upset by defeating 17th-ranked St. John Fisher, 9-6.
Nazareth improved to 7-2 overall and 2-0 in the Empire 8. Fisher, which had beaten Nazareth six straight times and had eliminated the Golden Flyers from the last two E8 Tournaments, dropped to 6-3 overall and 2-1 in conference play.
Sophomore
Kate Rothrock had one goal and three assists and senior
Bri Mancini also scored twice. Freshman
Haley DeVona, junior
Carly Gates and senior
Suzie Gray also scored for the Golden Flyers.
Sullivan scored just 53 seconds into the game for a 1-0 Nazareth lead, but Fisher's Lindsey Shoales countered less than three minutes later to tie the score at 1-1. Neither team scored over the next 15 minutes, then Nazareth erupted for four straight goals over a stretch of nine minutes to take control. DeVona scored off an assist from Rothrock with 11:41 left in the half and Rothrock assisted again on a goal by Mancini five minutes later. Goals by Sullivan and Gray put Nazareth ahead 5-1, before Fisher interrupted the strong on a goal by Jordan Johnson with 1:30 left.
Rothrock then made a great individual effort to score an unassisted goal just before time expired in the first half to put Nazareth on top 6-2 at the break.
Fisher's Kennedy Frink scored the first two goals of the second half as the Cardinals closed within 6-4. Mancini, though, answered for Nazareth just 30 seconds after Frink's second goal as Rothrock gained her third assist of the game. Less than two minutes after that, Sullivan scored her third goal of the game to enable Nazareth to regain its four-goal lead. Gates then scored on a free-position shot just two minutes after Sullivan to give Nazareth its largest lead at 9-4.,
Fisher scored the next two goals, but the game went scoreless over the last 10 minutes as Nazareth prevailed. Nazareth's defense, spearheaded by seniors
MacKenzie Haley and
Hannah Prince and freshman
Erin States, limited the Cardinals to just two shots over the last 10 minutes -- both of which were saved by Kirch, who caused the Cardinals to go 0-for-8 on free-position attempts with four saves.
Nazareth outshot Fisher 23-19, but Fisher had a 15-13 edge in ground balls. Nazareth won nine draws to Fisher's seven with Sullivan accounting for four wins.
STEVENS 16, Elmira 4
The Stevens Institute of Technology women's lacrosse team held Elmira College to just two shots over the final 30 minutes as they knocked off the Soaring Eagles 16-4 in Empire 8 conference action on Saturday.
Stevens (6-1, 3-0 E8) jumped out to an early 3-0 lead behind goals from junior
Erika Wilcox, freshman
Victoria Alvarez and sophomore
Kathleen Kalbian. For Alvarez, it was the first goal of her career. Elmira (0-6, 0-3 E8) got on the board with 17:19 remaining as freshman Marisa Carr put home an unassisted tally. The Ducks then went on a 5-0 spurt over a seven minute span with Wilcox potting two more goals. Elmira went into the halftime break on a 3-1 run behind a pair of goals from senior Ashton Hogan to cut the deficit to four.
The second half was all Ducks, as they got goals six different players including seniors
Holly Good and
Andrea Dragoni. The defense forced the Soaring Eagles into 14 second half turnovers while also limiting them to a single draw control over the final 30.
Stevens led in every statistical category, holding a 45-11 advantage in shots and a 17-5 edge in draw controls. Kalbian recorded five points on a team nine shots while leading the team with four draw controls. Senior
Amanda Ingersoll led the way with six ground balls and two caused turnovers while sophomore
Madison Annitto forced four turnovers on the defensive end. Junior
Catie Shelton made three saves in the opening half for the Ducks.
Hogan led the Soaring Eagles with four shots on goal and three draw controls while sophomore Lindsay Wargo made 14 saves in goal.
UTICA 18, Hartwick 7
The Utica College women's lacrosse team picked up its first Empire 8 Conference win of the season as it downed host Hartwick College 18-7 on Saturday afternoon. Senior
Megan Kane (Staten Island, NY/Tottenville) netted a career-high seven goals and added one assist to lead the way for the Pioneers. Kane is now third all-time with 153 career points.
Utica has now won four of its last five and improves to 5-3 on the year (1-1 Empire 8). The Pioneers return to action Thursday as they travel to Keuka for a non-conference match up. Game time is scheduled for 4 p.m. Hartwick drops to 2-4 overall and 1-2 in E8 play.
Utica scored six goals in the first 3:18 of the contest and went on to hold a 13-3 advantage at the half. Apart from her eight-point outing,
Megan Kane (Staten Island, NY/Tottenville) also led the team with five ground balls. Sophomore
Rebecca Plunkett (Kings Park, NY/Kings Park) tallied three goals, one assist, and collected a game-high seven draw controls.
Patricia Kane (Staten Island, NY/Tottenville),
Tewasherake Barnes (Akwesasne, NY/Salmon River), and
Brooke Miller (Rome, NY/Rome Free Academy) each had two goals, while
Morgan DuPont (Wynantskill, NY/Averill Park) had two assists.
Melissa Koch (Syracuse, NY/East Syracuse Minoa) and
Courtney Wheeler (Ava, NY/Rome Free Academy) each had a goal and an assist, while
Briana Estabrook (Tully, NY/Tully ) had one assist.
Juniors
Kells Casey (Sandwich, MA/Kimball Union Academy) and
Erin Jacobson (Staten Island, NY/Curtis) split time in goal, while Casey picked up her fourth win of the year. Hartwick was led by Emily Jweid, who had one goal and two assists on the afternoon. Steph Luce made 13 saves in net for the Hawks.
|
SCHOOL |
CONF |
OVERALL |
|
Stevens |
3-0 |
6-1 |
|
Nazareth |
2-0 |
7-2 |
|
Houghton |
1-1 |
3-4 |
|
Ithaca |
1-1 |
3-5 |
|
St. John Fisher |
1-1 |
6-3 |
|
Utica |
1-1 |
5-3 |
|
Hartwick |
1-2 |
2-4 |
|
Alfred |
0-1 |
0-3 |
|
Elmira |
0-4 |
0-7 |