FARMINGDALE, N.Y. – Kathleen O'Mara (Huntington, N.Y./Walt Whitman) scored twice in her Long Island homecoming as the Manhattanville University women's lacrosse team was defeated 19-4 at Farmingdale State on Tuesday. The Valiants fall to .500 in Skyline Conference play with the loss at 1-1, dropping to 3-5 overall.

O'Mara was the lone Valiant with multiple points in the loss, bringing her season goal total up to eight through three games played. The sophomore has moved into fourth on the team leaderboard despite missing the first five games of the year.
Pietra Cabral (Mineola, N.Y./Mineola) and Bethany Rudolph (Beacon, N.Y./Beacon High School) accounted for Manhattanville's other goals in Tuesday's loss. Rudolph recorded the third tally of her freshman season, while Cabral remains the Valiants' leading scorer with 18 goals through eight games of her senior campaign.

Farmingdale's Carly Livingston and O'Mara traded the opening two goals through the opening six minutes, but the Rams got two more goals from Emily Sohm to take the 3-1 lead at the end of the quarter.

The Rams blew the game open with a 7-2 second quarter. Farmingdale scored the first two goals of the new quarter before Rudolph ended the string of four-straight Ram goals with 8:28 left in the half. Farmingdale responded with another four unanswered strikes to run out to a 9-2 lead. O'Mara netted her second of the day with 44 seconds left in the quarter, but Farmingdale beat the horn as Livingston scored with one second remaining to put the Rams up 10-3 through the half.

Manhattanville was unable to contain Farmingdale's attack efforts, being outscored 9-1 in the second half. Cabral notched the Valiants' lone goal of the half with 6:17 left in the third.

Jocelyn Mazo's (Mamaroneck, N.Y./Mamaroneck) four draw controls and four ground balls led Manhattanville in both categories. O'Mara and Cabral had three ground balls each, while Kaci Pierce (Niantic, Conn./East Lyme) had a pair of draw controls.

Maura Spruck (Hawthorne, N.Y./Westlake High School) suffered the loss, allowing seven goals and making five saves in her 23:48 of field time in the start. Megan McDonald (Pearl River, N.Y./Pearl River) played the closing 36:12, making six saves while surrendering 12 goals.

Up Next
Manhattanville's four-game road trip continues on Friday night at Maritime at 6 p.m.

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