OSWEGO, NY – Four different players scored a goal, and the Red Dragons held host Oswego without a shot attempt, as the Cortland field hockey team earned a 4-0 road win at Oswego in State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) play on Saturday evening. Cortland improves to 5-9 (2-2 SUNYAC), while Oswego falls to 4-11 (0-4 SUNYAC).
Adrienne Mayes (Vestal) had a goal and an assist to lead the Red Dragons.
Ava Passante (Endwell/Maine-Endwell),
Lillian Morse (Burnt Hills/Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake), and
Tori Peterson (Whitney Point) each scored a goal for Cortland.
Gabriella Gemelli (Clinton) contributed an assist.
Emma Morgan (Whitney Point) played the opening 39:25 in goal for Cortland, while
Sofia Cannistraci (Guilderland) played the final 20:25 in the cage.
Sam Krautheim made 19 saves for the Lakers.
The Red Dragons fired six shots on target over the opening six minutes in the first quarter, but Krautheim was able to save all of them to keep the game scoreless.
On the Red Dragons' fourth penalty corner of the game,
Sadie Hoffmann (Miller Place) had a shot attempt blocked by an Oswego defender, but the ball came to Passante, who poked in her third goal of the season to make it 1-0 with 8:11 remaining in the period.
Cortland held a significant 8-0 advantage in shots on goal after one quarter, but the Lakers were able to stay within a goal after a period.
The Red Dragons scored on another rebound following a penalty corner in the second quarter to take a 2-0 lead into halftime. Hoffmann blasted a shot from the left side near the top of the circle that was saved by Krautheim, and the ball came out to Morse on the right, who flipped a shot into the back of the cage for her third goal of the season.
With just over five minutes remaining in the third quarter, Cortland scored a third time, this time directly off a penalty corner. Gemelli sent the insert on the penalty corner out to Mayes to the left of the top of the circle, and the sophomore drove a low shot into the bottom of the cage to give Cortland a 3-0 lead.
The Red Dragons completed the scoring with a little over ten minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. Mayes sent the ball from the left side inside the circle to the right post, where Peterson was able to redirect the ball past Krautheim into the back of the net for her first goal as a Red Dragon.
The Cortland defense held possession for much of the final minutes of play, and Cortland finished the shutout victory with a 39-0 edge in shot attempts and a 25-0 edge in penalty corners.
