ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Michelle Relin scored two goals, including her fourth gamewinner of the season, to power the University of Rochester to a 4-2 field hockey victory over Ithaca College at Edwin Fauver Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
 
Nicole Cerza and Sayaka Abe scored single goals for the Yellowjackets. Abe assisted on Relin's second goal and Alexis Wood set up Abe off a penalty corner.
 
Danielle Coiro and Colleen Keegan-Twombly scored for the Bombers with Caitlin O'Brien picking up an assist.
 
Rochester improved to 4-0 in2014 while Ithaca is 1-2. This is only the fourth time that the Yellowjackets have started 4-0 since field hockey became a varsity sport in 1975. Rochester was 4-0 in 1977, in 1984 (won first five that year), and 2012 (started 8-0).
 
Tara Lamberti made seven saves in goal for Rochester. Katie Lass had five saves for Ithaca and O'Brien registered a defensive save.
 
Rochester outshot Ithaca, 17-10, 13-6 in the second half. The Yellowjackets earned 10 penalty corners to seven for the Bombers.
 
Lamberti made three key saves against Keegan-Twombly and those played a major role in the win. Fifteen minutes into the game, she dove at the left post to turn back Keegan-Twombly's shot from four yards out. With less than 18 minutes to play in the match and Rochester ahead, 3-1, Lamberti made a save at the low near post on the right side om Keegan-Twombly. She did it again with a glove save with just over 7:34 left on the clock. A minute later, Keegan-Twombly scored on a rebound to pull the Bombers within 3-2.
 
Relin provided a cushion for the lead with 3:37 left on the clock. Rochester counterattacked down the left side. Abe's long pass settled onto Relin's stick and from left wing, she wristed the ball into the low right corner.
 
Ithaca did a good job cutting off passing angles and disrupting Rochester's flow for much of the first half. Relin's first goal of the match changed the tone. With 5:12 left in the period, she wove through the defense on the left side, cut to the right and shot the ball into the open right side of the goal.
 
Cerza, who had two goals in Saturday's 3-2 win over Oneonta, made it 2-0 at 41:28. Relin's shot from the top of the circle was parried by Lass and Cerza drove home the rebound from the left doorstep.
 
Abe stretched the lead to 3-0 at 45:39. After a penalty corner from Wood, Abe settled the ball and hit a screened shot through the circle and into the center of the net.
 
Megan Keil nearly made it 4-0 a minute later when her shot from up top slammed into the left post. Lamberti stopped Keegan-Twombly's backhander on the ensuing counterattack and the Bombers eventually earned a penalty corner. That led to the first Ithaca goal.
 
Lauren Delia's insertion found O'Brien outside the circle. She drove into the area and hit a long drive that Coiro tipped off Lamberti's glove and inside the post at 50:33. That set up the final minutes.
 
Relin moved into third place in career goalscoring with 42. She is fourth in points with 104 and second in gamewinning goals with 13.