PRINCE ATHLETIC COMPLEX – Led by nine goals and 10 total points from Alyssa Gorny, the University of Rochester women's lacrosse picked up its second conference win of the year, defeating the Bard College Raptors, 22-7, on Friday at Edwin Fauver Stadium.
 
Despite two early goals from the Raptors, putting Bard up by a score, 1-0, and a little over two minutes later, 2-1, the Yellowjackets tied things up on Alyssa Gorny's first of nine goals on the afternoon, and then again on Kassi Boehl's score with 9:47 left in the first.
 
Gorny's first tally answered Gwendolyn Jamison's opening salvo with 11:10 left in the first, while Boehl knotted things up at two-all at the 9:47 mark of the opening period.
 
The Yellowjackets then proceeded to get on a roll, scoring five unanswered to open a 6-2 lead, and adding another before the visitors got back on the scoreboard. Back-to-back scores from Anna Rogers turned a 2-2 game into a 4-2 UR advantage just shy of the six-minute mark of the first. Gorny added two more goals, both unassisted, as the 'Jackets extended their lead to 7-2, before a late, player-up goal from Emerson Embrey sent the two sides into the quarter break with UR leading, 7-3.
 
Rochester then kept things rolling into the second quarter, outscoring the Raptors, 9-0, in the period to open up a 16-3 advantage at the halftime break. UR forced three turnovers and outshot Bard, 17-3, in the second quarter, winning eight of nine draw controls.
 
Gorny got the scoring started in the second with her fourth goal of the afternoon, while Rogers added another before Gracie Giannettino got in on the action with back-to-back goals just past the 12-minute mark.
 
Gorny would add two more in the period, both assisted by Kaitlyn Wilkowski, while Lorelei King, Tessa Little and Jennifer Bekos all found the back of the net before the halftime buzzer sounded.
 
UR would slow its pace a bit in the second half, outscoring Bard just 4-3 in the quarter, and 2-1 in the second half, eventually coming away with a 22-7 victory.
 
Bekos, Gorny and Allison Weiden accounted for Rochester's four scores in the third, while Gorny and Jenna Kessler found the back of the net in the final frame.
 
Gorny, with her nine-goal performance, set the Rochester single-season program record with 55 goals, surpassing Anni McDonough's 54 goals scored in the 1995 campaign. Gorny's 10 points and nine goals are also both tied for the second-most in a single game in program history, behind a pair of performances by McDonough in 1995.
 
With the win, Rochester moves to 5-11 (2-7 LL) on the year, while the Raptors drop to 1-16 (0-10 LL).
 
Gorny led UR with nine goals, while Rogers added three and Bekos, Giannettino and Weiden each scored two. Giannettino also added a team-high four assists, while Wilkowksi notched three and Weiden and Anne Traczyk each dished out two.
 
Gorny also had a team-high six draw controls and three ground balls, while Sara Mendelson and Maddie Bunting each had four draw controls, and Campbell Sy equaled the junior with three ground balls.
 
Defensively, Traczyk caused a team-high three turnovers, with Esposito also turning over Bard twice. Three different Yellowjackets saw time in goal, with Nikki Cassara seeing a team-high 24:41, allowing three goals and making two saves.
 
Isla Ablin got the start and made a team-high three saves, while Madeline Merriman allowed one goal in 15 minutes between the pipes.
 
As a team, Rochester outshot Bard, 43-14, turned the Raptors over 20 times, and held Bard to just nine draw controls and 7-of-18 clears.
 
The Yellowjackets will wrap up the regular season on Saturday, April 26 with another conference matchup against Union College at 2:00 p.m. at Fauver Stadium.