Record-Setting Year Continues for the Orange

Tuesday, April 22

Away

7:00 p.m.

Syracuse University

Cornell

Christina Dove tied her career high with seven points to lead the Orange to a 19-7 victory against Cornell.

4/22/2008 9:59:39 PM | Women's Lacrosse

Boxscore

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Syracuse women’s lacrosse team used a 13-2 scoring run to break open a tie game and went on to a 19-7 victory against Cornell on Tuesday night at Schoelkopf Field. The win was the seventh in a row for the No. 5/3 Orange, which finishes the regular season with a 14-2 record. The 14 wins are the highest single-season total for the Orange in the program’s history. Cornell goes to 9-5 on the season.

The Orange was led by sophomore Christina Dove who tied a career high with seven points on five goals and two assists, and junior Katie Rowan, who scored three goals and three assists. She added two more records to her already sparkling resume. Her first assist of the night, to sophomore Halley Quillinan with 11:59 remaining in the first half moved her into sole possession of the all-time career assists record. She had three assists on the night to give her 88 in her career. Rowan’s third goal of the night, her 59th of the season, tied her own school record for most goals scored in a season she set last year.

"I thought we had a nice game overall," head coach Gary Gait said. "We had a bit of a lapse in the first 10 minutes of the first half. We lost focus for a bit but we got it right back and took control of the game. We did a nice job."

Syracuse surrendered the first goal of the game for only the second time all season on a shot from Cornell’s Tissy O’Connor with 27:38 remaining in the first half. Two minutes later, Dove tied the game on an unassisted shot, the first of four unanswered goals from the Orange. The final goal of the run, scored by Dove with 22:47 remaining in the half, was the team’s 289th of the year, which broke the school record for most goals scored in a season. Junior Megan Mosenson added two goals during the run. Cornell responded with a three-goal streak of its own to tie the game at 4-4 with 15:19 remaining. As it has all year, the Syracuse offense kicked into high gear, scoring six straight goals during the next 10 minutes to take a commanding 10-4 lead.

The six goals were a part of the decisive 13-2 run that spanned the final 13 minutes of the first half and 11 minutes into the second, as five different Orange added goals during the run. Awehiyo Thomas received a pass from Dove and put in a shot with 12:55 remaining in the first half to start the barrage. Dove and Rowan scored three goals during the run, which was capped by a Kristin Brady goal with 19:33 remaining in the second half.

Eight different Orange contributed goals to the final total. Quillinan finished with four goals to push her career total to 102. Mosenson added three goals, and sophomore Jackie DePetris and freshman Elise Terracciano scored one apiece. Courtney Farrell and Noelle Dowd scored two goals each for Cornell.

Freshman goalkeeper Liz Hogan recorded five saves in the Orange’s defensive effort. Syracuse outshot the Big Red, 43-20, and won the battle for draw controls, 16-11.

Syracuse travels to Notre Dame, Ind., for the BIG EAST Championship this weekend. The Orange is the tournament’s No. 1 seed and will take on No. 4 seed Rutgers in the semifinals at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. No. 2 seed Notre Dame takes on No. 3 seed Georgetown in the other semifinal. The championship game is set for Sunday at noon.