Rindge, N.H. – Senior
Erica Geremia (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee/SUNY Cortland) and freshman attacker
Bryanna Fazio (Watertown, N.Y./General Brown) each recorded six points to lead the second-ranked Le Moyne College women's lacrosse team to a 19-6 win over Franklin Pierce University on Saturday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference action at Sodexo Field.
The Dolphins jumped out to a 4-0 lead through the game's first nine and one-half minutes. Fazio started the scoring with her 43rd goal of the year 4:08 into the game. Only 26 seconds later, sophomore attacker
Jacqueline Pardee (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee) finished off a pass from Geremia. Freshman midfielder
Monica Sanna (Pittsford, N.Y./Pittsford) netted Le Moyne's third goal with 23:23 remaining in the half after collecting a pass from Fazio. Senior attacker
Maggie Monnat (Baldwinsville, N.Y./C.W. Baker) capped the streak with her 32nd goal of the year with 20:36 left.
The Ravens answered with three goals in a span of 3:52.
Briana Sweeney got Franklin Pierce on the scoreboard with 18:43 left, while
Caitlin Sweeney scored 51 seconds later. Caitlin Sweeney scored again with 14:51 left to make the score 4-3.
Sanna pushed Le Moyne's lead back to two with 11:15 remaining off a feed from sophomore midfielder
Abbie McEntee (Cazenovia, N.Y./Cazenovia).
Franklin Pierce evened the score at five apiece with the next two goals.
Lauren Beville cut her team's deficit to one with 6:58 left by converting a free-position shot. Briana Sweeney tied the score with 2:37 remaining with her 54th goal of the year.
Le Moyne regained the lead with the final two goals of the half. Fazio put the Dolphins back in front with an unassisted goal with 1:43 left. Geremia then found the back of the net with 18 seconds to go to give the Dolphins a 7-5 lead.
As they did in the first half, the Dolphins scored the first four goals of the second half. Fazio put the Dolphins up by three with her 45th goal of the season just 1:11 into the stanza, while she fed Pardee just 16 seconds later for her 20th goal of the campaign. Following 7:44 of scoreless action, Geremia put the Dolphins into double-digits after taking a pass from Monnat. Just 47 seconds later, junior midfielder
Molly McGuane (Marcellus, N.Y./Marcellus) registered an unassisted goal.
Anna Wilbert netted Franklin Pierce's only goal of the second half with 18:46 left off a pass from Beville.
The Dolphins put the game away with the last eight goals of the game. Monnat ignited the run with 17:32 left, while Fazio followed with her fourth goal of the day 75 seconds later. Pardee put the Dolphins in front 14-6 with 15:14 left off a feed from McEntee, while Geremia tallied her third goal of the contest 40 seconds later. Just under two minutes later, Geremia found the back of the net again after receiving a pass from Sanna, who then converted a free-position shot for her career-best third goal of the day with 10:02 to play. Geremia wrapped up her six-point day with her 50th goal of the season with 7:16 left for an 18-6 lead. With the goal, Geremia became just the second player in the program's history to record at least 50 goals in multiple seasons. Additionally, the goal gave her 218 points as a Dolphin, which moved her past Brittany Brigandi '12 for third place on the program's career points list.
Freshman midfielder
Kasi Cabrey (Liverpool, N.Y./Liverpool) finished off the game's scoring by scoring her seventh goal of the season in an extra-player situation off a pass from McEntee with 2:17 remaining.
Senior goalkeeper
Ryan Cortese (Brewerton, N.Y./Paul V. Moore) registered nine saves, her most in a conference game, over 53:35 between the pipes to earn her 14th win of the season.
Denise Hunt recorded eight saves over 53:46 in the loss for the Ravens.
Le Moyne (15-1, 12-1 NE-10), which won 12 conference games for the third time in five years, opens play in the Northeast-10 Conference Championships on Wednesday against American International College at home at 2:00 p.m.