Box Score Box Score

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. – The State University of New York at New Paltz women's lacrosse team (5-7) scored 12 unanswered goals before visiting Bard College (5-6) got on the board Thursday afternoon in a non-conference game at the Turf Field, and the Hawks ended up cruising to a 16-3 victory. Senior attack player Samantha DelGaudio (Northport, N.Y./Northport) had five assists to go along with two goals, and her assist total helped her tie the program's single-season program record.

DelGaudio upped her season total to 28 assists and tied her single-season program record that she achieved last year.

Sophomore attack player Talia Tesler (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) led all scorers with three goals, while sophomore midfielder Mariam Ismail (Red Hook, N.Y./Red Hook), DelGaudio, junior attack player Erin Tornatore (Glen Cove, N.Y./North Shore) and freshman midfielder Lianne Valdivia (Kingston, N.Y./Kingston) chipped in with two each. In addition, freshman midfielders Carissa Citro (Miller Place, N.Y./Miller Place), Fatima Ismail and Julia Johnson (Bayport, N.Y./Bayport-Blue Point) and senior midfielders Krista Hannaford (Huntington Station, N.Y./Walt Whitman) and Julia Donato (Fayetteville, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius) all scored once.

For Bard, Kim Larie, Stephanie Lamont and Reed Mango accounted for all the Raptors' scoring.

Senior goalkeeper Stephanie Mignone (Farmingville, N.Y./Sachem East) earned the win by drawing the start in goal and making one save in 10:20 of playing time, but she gave way to freshman goalkeeper Jackie Ulanoff (Northport, N.Y./Northport), who played for the remainder of the contest and made two stops. Their counterpart, Maddy Huggins, turned aside eight shots in a full 60 minutes of action.

New Paltz outshot Bard by a 25-7 margin, and the Hawks caused 10 turnovers to the Raptors' seven. The Hawks won the draw control battle, 12-9, and also went 10-for-14 on clear attempts compared to Bard's 7-for-12 mark.

The Hawks scored 12 straight goals to open the game, with F. Ismail's goal with 16:16 to go in the first half capping the scoring spree. Bard's LaMont put the visitors on the board with 9:11 to play in the first stanza, while Tornatore answered just more than two minutes later by cashing in on a DelGaudio feed. Larie netted a score before Tesler found the back of the net with the man advantage, which provided the halftime margin of 14-2. Tesler netted a marker with 23:26 to go in the second half, but Mango scored another goal for Bard nearly three minutes later. Finally, Hannaford closed scoring with a goal off a DelGaudio pass with 18:35 remaining in regulation.

New Paltz faces a tough test on Saturday, April 14, as it squares off with second-ranked SUNY Cortland at 1 p.m. in Cortland, N.Y.