A Blue Devil slides into home base during Friday’s game against Plattsburgh.
Photo courtesy of Andrea Adinolfe / Staff Photographer
ERIN BISCHOFF
Special to The Leader
On Saturday, the Blue Devil women’s lacrosse team defeated the Oneonta Red Dragons at Fredonia’s University Stadium with a final score of 13-8.
Although the victory went to Fredonia State, both halfs began with Oneonta in the lead. The Blue Devil’s offense was quick to respond, scoring five of the next six goals in the first half. When the start of the second half put them behind the Red Dragons again, the Blue Devils answered with six consecutive goals, giving them a permanent lead.
Offensively, Fredonia was led by junior attack Katie Glagolev, who contributed five goals over the course of the game. Junior midfielder Marissa Cussins was close behind with a total of four goals and drew three turnovers from the opposing Red Dragons.
Freshman midfielder Kristie Kleine and freshman attack Emily Polizzi each scored twice. Kleine also seized six draw controls and recovered four ground balls, both of which are current team highs. With this added victory, Fredonia’s only conference loss was against SUNY Geneseo last Wednesday, a close game with a final score of 8-9.
“We have definitely faced some tough competition, but with each game we have seen what our team is capable of. It certainly won’t be easy, but we all are fully anticipating coming out on top. We just need to take it game by game and play how we know we can,” Kleine said.
“I think that Geneseo has a good lacrosse team, and I don’t see the loss as any sort of indication on the rest of our season. We play in a tough conference and games from here on out will be close competition, but I know wins are possible,” Glagolev said in regard to the teams only conference loss to Geneseo.
Despite their previous loss against Geneseo, Fredonia women’s lacrosse has seen plenty of success so far this season, consistently leading in every final score by at least two points, but often by numbers between five and eight. This latest victory against Oneonta has brought the Blue Devils to 9-3 overall and 3-1 in SUNYAC.
“Everyone works together. When we all put forth our best effort for each other, that’s when we see success,” Glagolev said.