CORTLAND, N.Y. – Freshman goalie Annie Casey (Bay Shore) made two saves in the final 30 seconds of the game to preserve a one-goal lead as the nationally 15th-ranked Cortland women's lacrosse team held on for a 12-11 victory versus ninth-ranked Ithaca in non-conference action Tuesday afternoon. The Red Dragons improved to 5-1 with the win, while the Bombers fell to 4-2.

Junior Carly Stone (Syracuse/Jamesville-DeWitt) led Cortland with five points on three goals and two assists. Freshman Hannah Tiso (Somers) netted three goals, sophomore Lexie Meager (Syracuse/West Genesee) tallied two goals and two assists and freshman Hannah Lorenzen (Stony Brook/Ward Melville) scored twice. Sophomore Brie Yonge (Penn Yan/Penn Yan Academy) recorded one goal and one assist, while senior Jaycie Annable (Navarino/Onondaga) scored a goal.

Casey finished the game with 11 saves and two ground balls. Junior Hailey Dobbins (Syracuse/CBA) collected a game-high seven ground balls and added five draw controls and two caused turnovers. Senior Carli Clementi (Huntington/Harborfields) scooped up four ground balls and caused four turnovers, and Lorenzen contributed three ground balls and two caused turnovers.

Junior Allie Panara (Pittsford/Pittsford Sutherland) paced Ithaca with three goals and two assists. Junior Elizabeth Rice (Portsmouth, NH) and freshman Jacqui Hallack (Sparta, NJ) each netted two goals. Sophomore Bailey Herr (Skaneateles) recorded one goal and one assist, and junior Maeve Cambria (New Rochelle/School of the Holy Child) and freshmen Rachel Rosenberg (Woodbury) and Indira Varma (Menlo Park, CA/Menlo School) notched one goal apiece.

Senior goalie Kimberly Presuto (Woodbury/Syosset) registered 12 saves and two ground balls for the Bombers. Junior Reid Simoncini (Ridgewood, NJ) secured three ground balls and caused three turnovers, and Panara won seven draws.

Cortland took a 9-5 lead at the half, scoring three of the last four goals of the opening 30 minutes of play. Meager registered all four of her points, and Stone and Tiso each chipped in with two goals for the Red Dragons. Rice scored twice and Panara picked up one goal and two assists for Ithaca.

In the second half, the Red Dragons pushed their lead to 11-5 on goals from Stone at 28:42 and Tiso at 21:50. Ithaca rallied for five consecutive goals from five different players in just over a 10-minute span to make it an 11-10 game with 8:20 remaining. Lorenzen put Cortland ahead 12-10 off an assist from Stone with 1:12 remaining, but Panara cut the advantage to 12-11 at 41 seconds.

The Bombers won the ensuing draw control, and Casey denied a shot by junior Erin McGee (White Plains) with 31 seconds on the clock. Dobbins collected the ground ball, but Cortland gave possession back to Ithaca with 22 seconds remaining. McGee had a second chance to tie the game, however Casey denied her shot with a save off the shaft of her stick with five seconds to go. The ball went over the end line with possession to Cortland with just under a second to play as the Red Dragons held on for the victory.
 
Cortland 12, Ithaca 11
 
GAME SUMMARY:
 
Team               1-2    Final
Ithaca               5-6        11
Cortland           9-3        12
 
Scoring (Goals-Assists):
Ithaca: Allie Panara 3-2, Jacqui Hallack 2-0, Elizabeth Rice 2-0, Bailey Herr 1-1, Maeve Cambria 1-0, Rachel Rosenberg 1-0, Indira Varma 1-0, Erin McGee 0-1 
Cortland: Carly Stone 3-2, Hannah Tiso 3-0, Lexie Meager 2-2, Hannah Lorenzen 2-0, Brie Yonge 1-1, Jaycie Annable 1-0 
 
Goalkeepers:
Ithaca: Kimberly Presuto, 12 saves (12 GA in 60:00)
Cortland: Annie Casey, 11 saves (11 GA in 60:00)
 
Shots: Cortland 36, Ithaca 29
Ground Balls: Cortland 25, Ithaca 19
Clears: Cortland 20-of-24, Ithaca 19-of-24
Draw Controls: Ithaca 13, Cortland 11
Caused Turnovers: Cortland 11, Ithaca 10
Turnovers: Ithaca 19, Cortland 16
 
Records after game: Cortland (Red Dragons) 5-1 (ranked 15th nationally in Div. III); Ithaca (Bombers) 4-2 (ranked 9th nationally in Div. III)