The visiting Red Dragons of Cortland blew open a close game today in the third quarter en route to a 15-7 win against Oneonta State today in SUNYAC men's lacrosse action. Cortland (7-4/3-0) held a 6-4 lead late in the third quarter before closing the quarter with three unanswered goals, which Oneonta (9-4/0-3) never could recover from.

Cortland opened the scoring early in the first quarter on an unassisted goal by junior Adam Hyde (West Seneca, NY/West Seneca East) at the 13:49 mark.

Oneonta tied the game less than one minute later with an unassisted goal by senior Neal Campbell (Merrick, NY/Mepham). Campbell finished the game with a pair of goals and one assist to lead Oneonta's offense today.

Cortland out scored Oneonta 4-1 over the final 9:26 of the opening quarter to take control 5-2 at the close of the first stanza. Senior Mike Felice (Baldwinsville, NY/C.W. Baker) notched a pair of goals in helping the Red Dragons get its lead.

A scoreless second quarter had Oneonta feeling pretty good against its nationally ranked, and defending Div. III national champions as halftime came with the score still 5-2.

Oneonta scored the first goal of the second half when sophomore John Carberry (Holtsville, NY/Sachem East) tallied an unassisted goal as he was being checked to the ground.

Josh Cittadino (Baldwin, NY/Baldwin) registered an unassisted goal at the 7:48 mark of the third quarter to give Cortland its three-goal lead back.

The host Red Dragons wouldn't go quietly as junior Tyler Dunne (Cazenovia, NY/Cazenovia) scored a goal off of an assist by Campbell to cut the visitors lead back to two goals.

For Oneonta, that would be as close as they would get as Cortland closed the third quarter and opened the fourth quarter with a total of six unanswered goals to put the game out of reach.

Junior Ryan Heath (Baldwinsville, NY/C.W. Baker) and Felice scored a pair of goals each during the stretch of goals.

Oneonta will be back in action again on Monday when they travel to Ithaca for their rescheduled game with the Bombers beginning at 4:00 p.m.

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ONEONTA, N.Y. – Senior Mike Felice (Baldwinsville/C.W. Baker) scored four goals and assisted on two others as Cortland, ranked 19th nationally in Division III, remained unbeaten in SUNYAC play with a 15-7 win at Oneonta. Junior Ryan Heath (Baldwinsville/C.W. Baker) added three goals and junior Josh Cittadino (Baldwin) added two goals and one assist for the Red Dragons (7-4, 3-0). Sophomore Michael Robinson (Alexandria, VA/Thomas Edison) made seven saves and allowed five goals in 56:20 of action, with senior Mo Lanzas (Vienna, VA/James Madison) stopping one shot over the final 3:40.

Senior Neal Campbell (Merrick/Mepham) led Oneonta (9-4, 0-2) with two goals and one assist. Junior Tyler Dunne (Cazenovia) scored twice and sophomore Nick Murray (West Babylon) recorded 10 saves.

Felice scored twice in the first quarter as Cortland raced out to a 5-2 lead. Neither team scored in the second quarter, and Oneonta’s John Carberry (Holtsville/Sachem East) tallied 3:15 into the third quarter to pull the hosts within 5-3. Cittadino found the net at the 7:48 mark of the third, but Dunne responded off a Campbell assist just over a minute later and Oneonta trailed 6-4.

Cortland, however, scored the final three goals of the period – a Heath unassisted goal at 5:41, a Felice tally off a Joey Morgan (Putnam Valley) assist 28 seconds later and another Heath goal, set up by Felice, with 1:11 left. The guests then opened up an eight-goal lead at 12-4 by scoring the first three goals of the fourth quarter, all in the opening 4:13.

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