Box Score

The nationally-ranked St. John Fisher women's lacrosse team cruised to a 17-3 victory over host Houghton College on Wednesday after scoring 11 first half goals.

With the win Fisher improves to 10-4 overall, while the Highlanders fall to 4-6.

Fisher established control from the start scoring the first six goals of the game.  Lindsey Shoales got things started for Fisher three minutes into the contest off a feed from Jordan Johnson.  

Neither squad would score over the next seven minutes until Bridget Alberts took a pass from Samantha Barton to push the Cardinals lead to 2-0.  Over the next seven minutes Fisher would net four more tallies including Kristina Lombard capping off the run to give the visitors a 6-0 advantage.

After Houghton netted its first goal of the contest at the 10:47 mark Fisher would respond with the final five goals of the half beginning with Sierra Badger scoring off a feed from Abbie Reed.

Barton scored Fisher's final goal of the half with just :01 second remaining off a free position shot as the Cardinals led 11-1 at the break.

In the second half, Badger who had a game-high five tallies, scored two of the first three Fisher goals of the half to push the lead to 14-1 five minutes in.

Danielle Falck also added a season-high two goals in the second half for Fisher.

Johnson dished out a game-high four assists in the win to go along with one goal while Shoales and Alberts each notched two goals.

Nicole Hart and Caroline Trpcevski each played a half for Fisher with Hart picking up the win to improve to 2-0 on the year.

Fisher is back in action Thursday when it hosts Brockport at 4 p.m. to start a three game home stand.