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HAMILTON – Colgate women's lacrosse senior attack Isabel Kreitler (Fairfield, Connecticut) tallied her fourth hat trick of the season and finished with five points to record her 100^th career point in the Raiders' 15-6 win over the American Eagles Saturday afternoon at Beyer-Small '76 Field.
 
Kreitler is the second Raider to record 100 points this season, joining Haley O'Hanlon (Garden City, New York) in the 100-point club this season. Kreitler also snagged seven draw controls en route to the 100^th of her career. Kreitler is now ninth in program history with 103 draw controls in her career while she also has scored 78 goals as part of her 102 points.
 
Kristen Brigagliano (Brightwaters, New York) tallied a career-high five points and picked up her first career hat trick in the win while O'Hanlon tied her career-highs with four assists and six points in the Raiders' nine-goal win.
 
Sophomore Tara Atkinson (Lloyd Harbor) also tallied career-highs with three assists and five points while tying her career-high with two goals in the game against the Eagles.
 
Colgate goalkeeper Asil Asfour (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) also had a game to remember, tying her career-high with nine saves and also had two groundballs.
 
The Raiders had a strong second half, outscoring the Eagles 10-2 and scoring 11 of the final 13 goals in the game.
 
American jumped out to an early 3-1 lead in the first 12:40 of the game, including Madison Hoon's goal just 20 seconds into the game to make it 1-0.
 
Kreitler netted her 17^th of the season 1:33 later to tie the game on a great feed from Haley O'Hanlon (Garden City, New York) but the Eagles answered with a pair of goals to extend the lead to two goals.
 
Colgate scored three straight goals to jump ahead of American, with Natalie Washuta (Chatham, New Jersey) opening the Raiders' run with a goals coming midway through the half assisted by Tara Atkinson (Lloyd Harbor, New York). Eight minutes later, Payton Gabriel (Lakewood, Colorado) fired a quick goal off a great pass from O'Hanlon to tie the game before Atkinson scored a great goal of her own to give the Raiders their first lead of the game.
 
American's Erica Skowron tied the game with 49.8 seconds left in the first half before Kreitler put home her second of the game with less than seven seconds left in the half after Kristen Brigagliano (Brightwaters, New York) found her with a quick pass after being fouled.
 
O'Hanlon opened up the second half with a beautiful goal 2:09 into the half after a great centering feed from Brigagliano, giving Colgate a run scoring five of the last six goals in the stretch.
 
Kreitler completed her hat trick and tallied the 100^th point of her career just 29 seconds after O'Hanlon's goal. Gabriel scored her second goal of the game nearly seven minutes later to extend Colgate's lead to 8-4 with 20:26 to go in the second half.
 
After Skowron scored her second goal of the game, the Raiders scored another four straight goals opened up by Kreitler's fourth tally of the game just 28 seconds later.
 
Brigagliano scored a pair of goals within 2:14 sandwiched around O'Hanlon's second goal of the game to give the Raiders a seven-goal game.
 
Isabella Lopez scored her first of the season with 5:59 left in the second half for the Eagles' last goal of the game to bring American within six goals at 12-6.
 
Colgate closed out the game with three unanswered goals starting with Kate Kelly's (Summit, New Jersey) first career goal with 4:45 left in the game. Just 19 seconds later, Brigagliano finished off her first career hat trick and Atkinson scored the final goal of the game with four seconds left for her second tally of the afternoon.
 
BOTTOM LINE
Colgate 15, American 6
 
WON-LOST RECORDS
The Raiders return to the win column and open up conference play on the right foot as they improve to 4-3 (1-0 Patriot League) while the Eagles fall to 2-6 (0-1 Patriot League) with the loss.
 
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Kreitler joined the 100-point and 100-draw control clubs today with five points and seven draw controls
-She also added two groundballs in the win
-Kreitler is ninth in program history with 103 draw controls
-Brigagliano had the best game of her career with her first career hat trick and scored five points
-O'Hanlon scored six points in a game for the fourth time in her career and also tied her career-high with four assists
-O'Hanlon also filled the stat sheet with four groundballs, six draw controls and two caused turnovers
-Atkinson also had the best game of her career with two goals and a career-high three assists and five points
-She has now record three multi-point games this season
-Asfour recorded nine saves in a game for the third time in her career and first time in the 2017 season
-Gabriel was the fifth different Raider to score multiple goals with her two-goal effort
-Gabriel has three two-goal games this season and has scored a goal in all but one game this season
-Kelly scored her first career goal and Washuta also added a goal for Colgate.
 
FACTS AND FIGURES
-Colgate outshot American, 42-19, and 31-15 in shots on goal
-The Raiders controlled the game with a 16-6 advantage in draw controls
-Both teams had 12 turnovers
 
UP NEXT
The Raiders return to the field on Saturday, March 25 when they host the Lafayette Leopards (6-2, 1-0 Patriot League) at Beyer-Small '76 Field at 12 p.m.