Field hockey topples No. 8 Stanford; Cross country notches pair of top-7 finishes

Syracuse midfielder Alyssa Manley got the best of Stanford yet again.

Last year, she scored two goals when the two teams met on Oct. 12 in Amherst, Mass.

On Saturday, she scored the game-winning goal 33 minutes into the first half to propel the No. 5 Orange (8-1, 0-1 Atlantic Coast) to a 3-1 victory over the No. 8 Cardinal (7-2) in Albany, N.Y.

Syracuse’s penalty corner unit struck first. Emma Russell and Jordan Page set up Laura Hahnefeldt, who finished by firing a laser to the back of the cage.

Fifteen minutes later, Manley made it 2-0 by poking in a rebound off of Leonie Geyer’s initial shot from the circle.

Stanford made the score 2-1 on a penalty corner of its own in the second half. Alex McCawley tipped home a pass from Kelsey Harbin with 10:17 remaining to break the shutout.

But that was all the offense the Cardinal could muster.

The Orange added an insurance goal with six minutes remaining. Russell took a pass through the circle from Brooks and knocked it home for her sixth goal of the season.

The three goals were the most given up by Stanford, which entered the contest with the country’s top scoring defense, in any game this season.

Syracuse returns home to J.S. Coyne Stadium next weekend for a two-day doubleheader. The Orange will face No. 4 Virginia Saturday at 1 p.m. before hosting Monmouth Sunday at 2 p.m.

Cross Country

The Syracuse men’s and women’s teams parted ways over the weekend.

The No. 9 men traveled to Chestnut Hill, Mass., for the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown, while the women headed to Minneapolis, Minn., for the Roy Griak Invitational.

The men took second place in Chestnut Hill, behind No. 12 Oregon with 69 points. Martin Hehir, the reigning Big East champion, finished in third place with a time of 24:12. Hehir was the only Orange runner in the top 10, but Reed Kamyszek, Ryan Urie, MJ Erb and Griff Graves finished in the top 20.

In Minneapolis, the women’s team came in seventh out of 28 teams. Sophomore Margo Malone was SU’s best finisher, coming in 22nd place out of 300 runners. Jessie Petersen, Brenna Symoniak, Brianna Nerud and Maura Linde were the other runners to collect points for the Orange.

After a two-week break, the Orange will head to the Princeton Invitational in New Jersey on Oct. 19.

—Compiled by staff writer Tyler Piccotti, tfpiccot@syr.edu, and asst. copy editor Jesse Dougherty, jcdoug01@syr.edu.