Elmira, FIsher, Ithaca and Naz Post Wins
ST. JOHN FISHER v Hartwick
The St. John Fisher College women's lacrosse team moved into a tie for first place in the Empire 8 Conference standings on Sunday, as the Cardinals cruised to a 19-4 win over visiting Hartwick College on Sunday.
With the win, Fisher improves to 8-4 overall and 4-1 in the Empire 8, tied with Stevens Institute of Technology and Nazareth for atop the conference standings.
Fisher jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first seven minutes and pushed its lead to 6-1 with just over eight minutes left in the first half. The Cardinals led 6-3 at the break and outscored Hartwick 13-1 over the final 30 minutes, scoring the game's final 10 goals.
Starting goalie
Molly Maguire stopped four shots over the final 34 minutes to earn in the win in net.
Jenn Crater and
Nicole Hart combined for three saves.
Chrissy Cook led Fisher with five points on three goals and two assists.
Freshman
Cori Holbrook and senior
Samantha Barton also tallied three goals apiece, while fellow senior
Erin Ward totaled four points on two goals and two assists.
Seniors
Danielle Falck and
Lindsey Shoales each scored twice, while Shoales and Barton led Fisher with three draw controls.
Mackenzie LeVan finished with two assists, while
Jordan Johnson,
Sierra Badger,
Felicia Sutoand
Kaitlyn Agedal also scored in the win.
Abbie Reed led the Fisher defense with four caused turnovers and three ground balls.
ITHACA v Alfred
The Ithaca College women's lacrosse team defeated the Alfred Saxons 21-2 in an Empire 8 matchup on Sunday, April 12. The Bombers improve their record to 7-6 on the season and 4-2 in the conference. The Saxons are now 2-7 and 0-5.
Ithaca never trailed Alfred throughout the entire 60 minutes of play. The score was tied once for 17 seconds in the first quarter. Fifteen student-athletes contributed goals in the win for the Bombers.
Olivia Oppenheim started off Ithaca's offense with a goal, on a pass from
Morgan Racicot at 26:13 in the first half. Alfred tied the game, 1-1, one minute later. The Bombers then went on to dominate the remainder of the first half, scoring 12 straight goals to send the game into halftime with a 13-1 lead.
Ithaca started the second half with a four-goal rally. Alfred snuck one past the Bombers' defense at 12:07, making the score 17-2.
The Saxons would not score again for the remainder of the game. Ithaca tallied four more goals in the next 12 minutes to account for the final score.
Senior midfielder
Molly Fischer led Ithaca's offensive effort with three goals and two assists.
Morgan Cadwell,
Olivia Oppenheim,
Delaney Gilson and
Niki Standera each registered two goals against the Saxons. Oppenheim also tallied an assist on the day.
Freshman
Devon Laidman led the Bombers with four assists and added a goal, recording her first collegiate points. Racicot registered three assists.
Gaby Berne and
Taylor Purvis logged a goal and an assist each against Alfred.
Ally Lates,
Taylor Brady,
Natalie Lang,
Ally Runyon,
Riley Marion,
Emily Peters and
Eve Mahaney each added a goal for Ithaca. Brady and Mahaney's shots marked their first collegiate goals.
Freshman
Elizabeth Sauer recorded a team-best and career-best four groundballs in the win.
Kelsey Fee made her first career start for the Bombers and recorded one save.
Emily Ross also saw time in goal for Ithaca.
The Bombers dominated the Saxons 41-4 in shots and had a decisive edge of 31 groundballs to Alfred's 20. Ithaca led 16-9 in draw controls and successfully executed on 11-of-12 clear attempts.
NAZARETH v Utica
Freshman
Haley DeVona scored her fourth goal of the game off as assist from sophomore
Kate Rothrock with 1:14 left in the second half Sunday to lift visiting Nazareth to an 11-10 women's lacrosse victory over Utica in an Empire 8 Conference game at Gaetano Stadium.
The victory enabled Nazareth to salvage a weekend split of conference games. Nazareth was beaten for the first time in conference play at Ithaca Saturday, 16-6, and now stands at 9-3 overall and 4-1 in the E8. Utica dropped to 7-4 overall and 2-2 in conference play. There now is a three-way tie for first place in the conference standings with Nazareth, St. John Fisher and Stevens each holding 4-1 records. Ithaca is in fourth place at 4-2.
Nazareth had taken a seemingly safe 10-7 lead with just under nine minutes to play on a goal by senior
Brooke Sullivan. Utica, however, rallied behind three straight goals by Megan Kane over a five-minute span to tie the score at 10-10. Her last goal was her fourth of the game and 36th of the season and came with 2:18 to play.
Nazareth then regrouped to get the game-winning score from DeVona, who leads the team with 26 goals. Three of her goals Sunday came in the first half, including two that came just 20 seconds apart in the closing minute of the half, to give the Golden Flyers a 6-5 lead at the break. Sophomore
Jamie Martin and junior
Carly Gates scored just 15 seconds apart early in the second half to extend Nazareth's lead to 8-5. Rothrock added a free-position goal as Nazareth maintained its three-goal cushion until Kane's three-goal flurry.
Rothrock finished with two goals and four assists for Nazareth. She leads the team with 35 points and is tied with DeVona with 35 points. Senior
Bri Mancini also had a goal for Nazareth in the first half.
Nazareth's 11 goals came on just 18 shots. Utica also had a 24-21 edge in ground balls. Gates finished with seven ground balls and sophomore
Leah Marvin had four ground balls and five draw controls. Senior
Ashley Kirch played all 60 minutes in goal and made 12 saves.
ELMIRA v Canton
The Elmira College women's lacrosse team put forth one of their best all-around performances of the season in today's 16-7 victory over visiting SUNY Canton. Overall, the Soaring Eagles outshot the Roos 34-27, forced 26 Canton turnovers, and dominated with a 31-17 advantage in draw controls. In addition, EC's two-headed attack of
Ashton Hogan'15 and
Moorea Spoljaric'16 each found another way to add to their respective legacies as Hogan recorded her 100th career goal while Spoljaric matched the Elmira single-game record for points tallied.
Hogan, who needed six goals to join Spoljaric and three others in EC's 100-goal club, got just what she needed with six goals and one assist in the win. It looked as though her 100th goal would have to come another day as the clock ticked down to zero, but Hogan would bounce one past the Canton goaltender with 13 seconds for her sixth goal of the game. The senior talent also becomes the second-fastest player to reach 100 career goals, doing so in 34 games. The EC record holder is Lindsay Mitchell '12, who reached 100 career goals in 33 games.
Spoljaric, more known for her scoring ability than anything else, was Elmira's top distributor today. She scored three goals against the Roos, but her playmaking ability set up seven more EC scores as she set a new career-high with those seven assists. Spoljaric's 10 total points matches Elmira's single-game high for points as today's game against Canton marks just the second time in EC history that 10 points were scored in a single game, the other coming in 2004.
The Soaring Eagles also got scoring contributions from
Marissa Mongillo'15,
Marisa Carr'18, Kyle Connell'17,
Jordyn Rousselle'18, and
Kyra McDonald'18. Mongillo recorded her first hat trick of the season while the other four players each tallied one goal.
EC got off to a quick start, scoring five goals in the first 10:10 of the opening half. Three of those goals came from Hogan as she eyed her 100th goal in the first half. However, Elmira's offense would go quiet for the next 14 minutes of the game as the game remained 5-0 until 5:50 left on the clock. That is when Mongillo scored the first of her three goals, making it 6-0. Canton finally got on the board less than a minute later to make it 6-1, but that is how the score would stand heading into halftime.
Spoljaric would get the scoring started coming out of halftime, extending EC's lead to 7-1, but back-to-back goals from the Roos gave Canton a bit of momentum. That momentum, however, would be suppressed by the Soaring Eagles as the combined efforts of
Lindsay Wargo'17 in the net and EC's attack created a four-goal run that made it an 11-3 game with 16 minutes left to play. Wargo was tested often in the second half but the sophomore came up with nine of her 13 total saves in the final 30 minutes to keep Canton's scoring at a minimum.
Canton scored three goals in a three-minute span, making it 12-6, but EC would get goals from McDonald, Hogan, Connell, and Hogan again with 13 seconds left, to put away the 16-7 victory. McDonald's goal, which came on Spoljaric's seventh assist, was her first career goal.
|
SCHOOL |
CONF |
OVERALL |
|
Nazareth |
4-1 |
9-3 |
|
St. John Fisher |
4-1 |
8-4 |
|
Stevens |
4-1 |
8-2 |
|
Ithaca |
4-2 |
7-6 |
|
Houghton |
2-2 |
5-5 |
|
Utica |
2-2 |
7-4 |
|
Hartwick |
2-4 |
4-7 |
|
Elmira |
1-5 |
2-9 |
|
Alfred |
0-5 |
2-7 |