LANCASTER, Pa.- The No. 19 Franklin & Marshall field hockey team (8-2, 1-1 Centennial Conference) rounded out the 2025 non-conference schedule with a 5-0 win hosting SUNY Cortland (4-6, 1-1 SUNYAC) on Saturday afternoon.
The Diplomats scored their quickest goal of 2025 when Hoover scored her conference-leading 12th goal 57 seconds into the game.
Molly Donadoni played a ball down the line to the corner to Fitzgerald who cut back towards goal, juggling the ball past her defender and finding Hoover in front of goal with a cutback to open the scoring.
Fitzgerald doubled the advantage with her first goal one minute into the second quarter. Dadio began the sequence with a line-breaking ball over the top of the defense that was then controlled by Fitzgerald on the left-side of the circle. From there, she cut inside of her defender, dribbled in front of goal, and beat the keeper low and left. F&M carried a 2-0 lead into halftime, outshooting Cortland 9-2 across the opening 30 minutes.
Dadio scored the team's third goal in the 38th minute from a penalty corner. Boensch played the ball in front of goal from the circle before Dadio tipped her shot past the keeper at the near post. It was F&M's lone goal of the third quarter where they generated a game-best eight shots and five penalty corners.
Fitzgerald made it a brace just seconds into the fourth quarter following successful pressing from Hoover to force a turnover. Allen received a cross from Hoover before passing the ball to her left to an unmarked Fitzgerald for a close-range goal. Roschen completed the scoreline thirty seconds later with a penalty stroke attempt that went into the cage off the right-side post.
The Diplomats continue the current three-game home stand by hosting Gettysburg on Wednesday, October 8, at 4:30 p.m.
