Breathing Fire: Cortland Smokes TCNJ
from press release
CORTLAND, N.Y. – Sophomore Kelly Radigan
(Fayetteville/Fayetteville-Manlius) scored five goals and assisted
on another to help lead the nationally eighth-ranked Cortland
women's lacrosse team to a 14-10 win versus third-ranked The
College of New Jersey Sunday afternoon in non-conference action.
The Red Dragons improved to 14-2 with the victory, while the Lions
dropped to 14-3.
Sophomore Erin Kollar (East Islip) added a season-high three goals
for Cortland. Senior Jess Fritz (Baldwinsville/C.W. Baker) scored
twice and handed out three assists, freshman Maria Di Fato
(Camillus/West Genesee) tallied two goals, sophomore Lindsay Abbott
(South Onondaga/Onondaga Central) had one goal and one assist and
junior Bri Shost (Mahopac)
scored once. Freshman goalie Ally Levy (Reisterstown, MD/Seton
Keough) made four saves. Di Fato registered five caused turnovers
and four draw controls, and Abbott recorded a game-high nine
draws.
Sophomore Leigh Mitchell (Mt. Laurel, NJ/Lenape) led the Lions with
five goals and two assists. Senior Lisa Seldeen (Wayne, NJ/Wayne
Valley) contributed two goals and two assists, while junior Ali
Jaeger (Hampton, NJ/North Hunterdon) and sophomores Sara Keating
(Upper Montclair, NJ/Montclair) and Kathleen Notos (Pennsauken,
NJ/Camden Catholic) each
scored once. Junior goalie Mary Waller (Bel Air, MD/C. Milton
Wright) registered 14 saves.
The first half played out as a back-and-forth affair with two goals
being the largest lead.
Mitchell and Selden gave the Lions a 2-0 lead three minutes, 15
seconds into the game, but Cortland strung together three scores,
two from Fritz and one from Kollar, to grab a 3-2 lead.
Jaeger and Mitchell answered with back-to-back goals and The
College of New Jersey led 4-3 at the 19:33 mark. Abbott and Seldeen
traded goals before Radigan and Di Fato scored 32 seconds apart to
give Cortland a 6-5 lead. Mitchell then set up Notos' goal and
scored on the free position and the Lions regained the lead, 7-6,
two minutes before intermission. Di Fato tied the game at 45
seconds, but Mitchell gave The College of New Jersey an 8-7
advantage, its last of the game, heading into the break.
Kollar knotted the game at 8-all from the free position at 28:44 of
the second half, and Radigan followed with a free-position goal at
27:35. Keating pulled the Lions even at 26:44, but the Red Dragons
quickly answered as Shost scored at 25:45 and Radigan found the
back of the net at 22:36 for an 11-9 Cortland lead. Kollar's third
score of the game at 11:13 pushed Cortland's lead to 12-9, and
Mitchell followed with her fifth of the game at 8:15 to make it
12-10. Radigan closed out the game with the final two scores, the
first assisted by Fritz at 5:25 and the second off an assist by
Abbott, to make it 14-10. The Red Dragons gained possession after
the final goal and successfully ran four minutes off the clock
before a late turnover to the Lions.
Cortland returns to action when it hosts the four-team SUNYAC
Tournament
on May 7-8.
