Senior Shelby Hall scored a hat trick and Michelle Relin added another tally as the University of Rochester upended Ithaca College 4-1 in a field hockey contest Wednesday afternoon.
 
Hall got the Yellowjackets (11-3) on the board first with a goal in the 10th minute, scoring with a hard shot 10 yards out from the right wing.  She found space in the circle and fired her shot to the lower left corner of the net.
 
Hall got her second score of the day at 21:18 when she tipped in a hard penalty corner shot by Relin.  Sarah Dixon played the ball into the freshman, who unleashed a blast from the right wing.  Hall, who was camped in front of the net, got a stick on it and tipped the ball into the top corner of the cage over the head of Ithaca goalie Kelly Singleton.
 
Relin got into the scoring action 24 minutes in when she scored off a rebound on a Katie Flaschner shot.  Her attempt found the lower left corner of the net for her 13th score of the season.
 
At the half, the home 'Jackets held a 3-0 lead.
 
Three minutes into the second half, the Bombers (6-7) got their best scoring chance up to that point when Lindsay Flanagan got a shot off an Ithaca penalty corner that got past UR keeper Madison Wagner.  Freshman defender Kathryn Montgomery was there though to make the defensive save and keep the Bombers off the scoreboard.
 
Ithaca had a slew of five corners early in the half, but could not find the back of the net.
 
Hall completed her hat trick at 54:03 when she found space on the right wing and blasted a shot by Singleton for her 15th of the season.
 
Ithaca was able to muster up a score of their own to prevent the shutout at 59 minutes when Katie Kennedy tipped in a right wing shot by Andrea Pace.  Her goal slipped past UR backup goalie Tara Lamberti who had just entered the game.
 
The Bombers tried to add another score with under a minute to go with three straight shots on net, two by Juila Conroy, the team's leading scorer, but Lamberti's awareness and agility paid off in keeping Ithaca three goals behind.
 
In goal for UR, the starter Wagner made two saves in 56 minutes to earn the win.  Singleton took the loss making 13 saves for the Bombers.  Lamberti finished the last 14 minutes of the game for the Yellowjackets, she made three saves and allowed one goal.
 
The Yellowjackets next take on Morrisvile State in a home contest on Friday at 4 pm.