ONEONTA, N.Y. – The St. John Fisher College field hockey team shut out SUNY Oneonta, 4-0, Friday evening at the Red Dragons' All College Field. The win improves the Cardinals' record to 8-3 overall while Oneonta, winners of its last three heading into tonight, drops to 6-6 on the season.
Junior
Bre Socker scored a season-high three goals for Fisher to earn her fourth hat trick of her collegiate career. Senior
Reghan Amoroso netted a goal for the second-straight game. Senior
Kelly Bergamo spent all 60 minutes in net for the Cardinals as she earned her third shutout of the season.
Fisher found the back of the net just over 11 minutes into the contest with Amoroso redirecting a shot from senior
Lindsay Scott across the goal line to make it 1-0 Cardinals. To begin the second quarter, Fisher piled on the shots and would not be denied with junior
Alyssa Andres setting up Socker for the Liverpool native's first goal of the game to put the Cardinals on top, 2-0.
Just a few minutes after Socker scored her first, the forward would add another to give Fisher a three-goal edge on a tough angle that deflected off the Oneonta netminder's pads and then went into the back of the cage. It gave the junior her fourth multi-goal game of the year.
The Cardinals kept the momentum going in the second with another goal. Off a penalty corner, Scott found Socker who netted one to earn her hat trick and make it a four-goal game. Fisher ended up with 11 shots in the second frame alone.
The second half was smooth sailing for the Cardinals. Bergamo knocked down one of her two saves on the night in the third quarter while the Fisher offense was on the doorstep to score more but were stopped by the Red Dragons. Fisher would not allow a single shot on goal for the entire final quarter and would not allow a single shot for the final eight minutes of the game.
Socker now has 13 goals this season. In games that the junior has scored in, the Cardinals are 6-1 this year. Andres notched her first assist of the season while Scott picked up her team-leading seventh and eighth assist on the year.
Fisher continues its season-long five-game road trip with a tilt at conference foe Houghton at 7 p.m. on Monday.