No. 14 Cortland Cruises in SUNYAC Opener
from press release
CORTLAND, N.Y. - Freshman Lindsay Abbott (South
Onondaga/Onondaga Central) scored a career-best eight points on a
career-high six goals and two assists to lead the nationally
14th-ranked Cortland women's lacrosse team to a 17-6 victory versus
Geneseo in the SUNYAC opener for both teams. The Red Dragons
improved to 3-4 overall, while the Knights dropped to 2-2.
Senior Danielle Torre (Massapequa) scored four goals and recorded
two assists for Cortland, and freshman Erin Kollar (East Islip)
netted a season-best three goals. Senior Meghan Gallagher (Long
Beach) and sophomore Brianna Shost (Mahopac) collected a goal and
an assist each. On the defensive side of the ball, senior Lindsay
Bakker (Sloatsburg/Suffern) scooped up nine ground balls and forced
five turnovers. Freshman goalie Amanda Caloia
(Baldwinsville/C.W.Baker) made five saves in 55 minutes, 21
seconds, before freshman Brianna Straut (Nanuet) stopped two shots
over the final 5:39.
Senior Maggie Morris (Massapequa) and junior Abby Hungerford
(Syracuse/Corcoran) led the Knights with two goals each. Sophomore
Lauren Burgoon (Syracuse/West Genesee) had a goal and an assist and
junior Tara Murphy (St. James/Smithtown) chipped in with a goal.
Senior goalie Hannah McKee (Ithaca) registered seven saves.
The Knights took an early 1-0 lead just 22 seconds into the game
when Burgoon set up Hungerford's goal. Abbott evened the score less
than three minutes later, and Miller gave Cortland a 2-1 lead at
25:57 before Burgoon tied the score at 2-2 with a free-position
goal 37 seconds later. Kollar then netted back-to-back scores as
Cortland took the lead for good. Hungerford pulled Geneseo to
within 4-3, but Cortland closed the half on a 4-1 run, with three
of the scores coming from Torre, including an around-the-back goal
that proved to be the game winner at the 4:55 mark.
The Red Dragons put the game away with the first six goals of the
second half for a 14-4 advantage with 19:48 remaining. Abbott found
the back of the net three times during the stretch. Morris and
Murphy tallied back-to-back goals for the Knights at 13:16 and
10:31, respectively, to make it a 14-6 game, but Cortland capped
the scoring with the game's final three goals for the 17-6 final.
