COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. – Cortland scored five straight goals over the game's final 17 minutes and the nationally 13th-ranked Red Dragons defeated Endicott College, 10-6, in a non-league women's lacrosse game at Colorado College.
Lauren Hopsicker (Burnt Hills/Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake) and
Hannah Keech (Penn Yan/Penn Yan Academy) led Cortland (3-2) with three goals apiece.
Rachel Janis (Laurel/Mattituck) finished with two goals and one assist,
Amy Hoeffner (Bay Shore) and
Rachel Rempe (Aquebogue/Riverhead) each scored once, and
Madelyn Czyz (Baldwinsville/C.W. Baker) notched two assists.
Margaret Morgan (New Fairfield, CT) made six saves.
For Endicott (2-2), Katy Garvin registered two goals and an assist and Carly Pierce scored twice. Katie Schenk and Kiana Napolitano each tallied a goal and Katie Wagner had one assist. Lydia Akins recorded five saves.
Cortland led 2-1 after one quarter and extended its lead to 4-1 on goals by Hopsicker and Janis in the first eight minutes of the second. Endicott, however, finished the half on a 3-0 run, including two Garvin goals, to tie the game at halftime.
The Gulls held a pair of one-goal leads in the third quarter, the last at 6-5 on a Napolitano goal with 2:12 left. Cortland struck for two goals to end the period – Keech at the 1:24 mark and Rempe with four seconds remaining – and the Red Dragons took a 7-6 lead into the fourth. Keech, off a feed from Janis, made it 8-6 with 13:00 left in the contest. Hoeffner tallied at the 11:46 mark to up the lead to 9-6 and Keech converted a Czyz pass with 4:12 left to finish the scoring.
Kayla Sweeney (Baldwinsville/C.W. Baker) led Cortland with four ground balls and Hoeffner and Rempe each won four draw controls. Cortland held a 24-21 edge in shots and 26-22 lead in ground balls, and each team won 10 draws.
Cortland 10, Endicott 6
Team 1-2-3-4 Final
Cortland 2-2-3-3 10
Endicott 1-3-2-0 6
Scoring (Goals-Assists):
Cortland:
Hannah Keech 3-0,
Lauren Hopsicker 3-0,
Rachel Janis 2-1,
Amy Hoeffner 1-0,
Rachel Rempe 1-0,
Madelyn Czyz 0-2
Endicott: Katy Garvin 2-1, Carly Pierce 2-0, Katie Schenk 1-0, Kiana Napolitano 1-0, Katie Wagner 0-1
Goalkeepers:
Cortland:
Margaret Morgan, 6 saves (6 GA in 60:00)
Endicott: Lydia Akins, 5 saves (9 GA in 53:58), Kaitlin Bressett, 0 saves (1 GA in 6:02)
Shots: Cortland 24, Endicott 21
Ground Balls: Cortland 26, Endicott 22
Clears: Cortland 19-of-22, Endicott 12-of-17
Draw Controls: Cortland 10, Endicott 10
Caused Turnovers: Endicott 9, Cortland 8
Turnovers: Cortland 18, Endicott 14
Records after game: Cortland (Red Dragons) 3-2 (ranked 13th nationally in Div. III); Endicott (Gulls) 2-2
