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Aine Cleary secures the ball in her lacrosse stick against Bates in March 2025
Photo: Hana Dolan '25
Aine Cleary '25
14
Winner Hamilton HAMILTON 1-2
8
Geneseo GENESEO 1-4
Winner
Hamilton HAMILTON
1-2
14
Final
8
Geneseo GENESEO
1-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Hamilton HAMILTON 5 5 3 1 14
Geneseo GENESEO 0 0 2 6 8

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse | | Jim Taylor

Women's lacrosse notches first win of 2025 season, 14-8 at Geneseo

Cleary '25 led the offense with three goals and two assists for the Continentals

GENESEO, N.Y. – Hamilton College scored the first 11 goals and the Continentals cruised to a 14-8 non-conference win against the SUNY Geneseo Knights at Geneseo's College Stadium on Wednesday, March 12.
 

Season Update

  • Hamilton (1-2 overall) picked up its first win this season after opening with two losses against conference opponents.
  • The Knights (1-4) are members of the Empire 8 Athletic Conference.
 

How It Happened

  • The Continentals scored five goals in the first quarter, including one by Maddigan Leifer '26 with two seconds left.
  • Hamilton scored five more times in the opening seven minutes of the second quarter and initiated the running clock. The Continentals led 10-0 at the half.
  • Julia Lee '27 found Kristin Vosswinkel '27 for an 11-goal advantage 1:40 into the third quarter.
  • Rosemary Mahoney finally broke the ice for Geneseo with 10:29 remaining in the third.
  • Hamilton was able to maintain its double-digit cushion as Lily Goldsmith '28 scored midway through the quarter, and Lee found the back of the net with 1:02 to go. The Continentals owned a 13-2 lead after three quarters.
  • Goldsmith notched another goal after a pass from Sarah Stonestreet '25 with 10:55 left in the fourth quarter. That tally put Hamilton up by 11 for the last time at 14-3.
  • The Knights' Olivia Luchetti scored three straight goals and finally pulled Geneseo within nine again. Lucchini's outburst put an end to the running clock with 3:35 remaining. The Knights added two more goals in the final 86 seconds for the final margin.
 

Notes

  • Head Coach Kaillie Kelly celebrated the first victory of her collegiate career.
  • Aine Cleary '25 led the Continentals' offense with five points on three goals and two assists. Cleary added three ground balls and two caused turnovers.
  • Leifer chipped in three goals and an assist and tied a career high with four points.
  • Lee recorded two goals, a helper and a career-best five draw controls.
  • Stonestreet contributed a goal and two assists. She leads the team with four helpers.
  • Goldsmith posted her first two collegiate goals.
  • Vosswinkel scored her seventh career goal and won three draws.
  • Alex Orlando '25 scored a goal for the second straight game.
  • Eugenia Kaltsas '26 registered her second career goal.
  • Avery Trach '27 had an assist and has a point in all three games. Trach caused two turnovers.
  • Hamilton's Clara Paolucci '28 made three saves.
  • Luchetti paced the Geneseo offense with three goals. Alaina Reina and Natalie Long added two apiece.
  • Grace Geary scooped up three ground balls and caused three turnovers. Violet Piccinini corralled a game-high six draw controls.
  • The Continentals held a 17-9 shot advantage in the first half. Hamilton scored on all four of its free-position shots in the opening 30 minutes.
  • The teams last played each other in 2018 in Florida, where the Knights won 15-11.
 

Next Game

The Continentals play a NESCAC game at Tufts University (4-0, 2-0) on Saturday, March 15 at noon.
 
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