ITHACA, N.Y. – The 19^th-ranked Ithaca College women's lacrosse team was back in action for the second time in as many days on Saturday afternoon when it welcomed Clarkson in the continuance of Liberty League action at Higgins Stadium. One day after putting up 19 goals in a convincing victory over another North Country rival, St. Lawrence, the offense remained in gear in another prolific outing against the Golden Knights. Ithaca pumped in a season-high 24 goals to surge past Clarkson in a high-scoring 24-16 victory. The win improves IC's record to 8-3 on the year, while it remained a perfect 5-0 in Liberty League play.
 
Two Ithaca seniors hit impressive milestones on the day to highlight the dominating offensive performance. Senior attacker Allie Panara became the program's all-time career assist leader, while fellow senior attacker Elizabeth Rice topped the century mark for career goals during the run of play this afternoon. For Panera, it was her biggest game of the season, as she registered seven points on three goals and four assists. Entering the day needing just one assist to tie 2009-graduate Becky Bedard's program record for career assists, Panara surged past that mark in the opening minutes of play and kept right on going. Her four-assist day brings her career total to 124, three more than Bedard's 121. Rice finished the day with one goal and one assist.
 
Seven total Bombers tallied multi-point performances on the day, which included four different IC players that posted hat tricks. Senior attacker Danika Wagener posted the finest game of her collegiate career with a career-best six goals and seven points to lead the team. Junior attacker Bailey Herr became the first Ithaca player to hit the 50-point and 30-goal marks this season, racking up six points on five goals and one assist. The outing brings her season totals to 54 points on 31 goals and 23 assists. Sophomore midfielder Jacqui Hallack also extended her hat trick streak to four straight games in registering a season-high five points on four goals and one helper. In the midfield, sophomore Meghan Motkowski and senior Erin McGee tallied two goals apiece.
 
Two other second-year talents posted points for Ithaca on the day. Sophomore Caroline Grant scored her fourth goal of the season, while sophomore Rachel Rosenberg picked up her first point of the 2019 campaign on an assist.
 
Defensively, Ithaca had some troubled containing the Golden Knights multi-faceted attack, but still had some players record some solid defensive statistics. Senior Reid Simoncini led the defense corps with two caused turnovers and two ground-balls, while she corralled seven draw controls. Senior Kaylou Stoddard, juniors Becky Mehorter and Katie Welch, as well as sophomores Molly Nodiff and Caroline Paquin posted one caused turnover apiece.
 
In goal, sophomore Mackenzie Schade finished with five saves in improving to 8-3 as starter this season.
 
Ithaca held commanding advantages in most of the major statistical categories. The Bombers outshot Clarkson 44-to-26 in attempts and 35-to-21 in shots on goal. IC went 12-for-13 on the clear, while it held Clarkson to just a 12-for-18 conversion rate. The Bombers were also phenomenal on the draw for a second straight day, holding a commanding 27-to-15 edge that powered a hefty possession advantage for stretches of the game. Panara followed her 12-draw control day against the Saints with a career high 15 controls this afternoon to further accentuate her historic day.
 
The tone for the day was set right from the outset, as the two sides traded goals during the early going with four goals already on the scoreboard just 4:08 into the game. Panara and Rice synced up on the opener with the former feeding the latter for the icebreaker 1:18 into the game. Wagener also began her big day early by scoring a sick goal off a feed from Hallack while IC was working a player down with Simoncini serving a two-minute penalty for an early yellow card.
 
A three-goal run for IC that spanned a 3:54 period lifted Ithaca's lead to 5-2, giving the home side a lead it would not relinquish for the duration. Panara dished out her record-setting assist on the opening goal of the run, feeding Herr on the doorstep for the go-ahead score. Panara also got to work on extending that record mark quickly after when she dished McGee for her first of the day 8:33 into the game. Wagener capped the stretch by converting another Panara feed into a goal 10:49 into the contest.
 
Clarkson pushed back during the middle portion of the half, scoring four times to offset a couple of goals from Herr. Sydney Roderick was the primary creator, dishing out assists on all four of the Golden Knights scores to bring Clarkson with a goal at 7-6 with 13:43 to play in the first half. Notching goals during this stretch were: Abigail Johnson, Abby Collins, Aubrey Borgesi, and Mia Petrone.
 
Ithaca snatched back momentum with a 6-1 scoring run to close out the half. Panara put the bookend on the run with goals at 12:20 remaining and 1:07 remaining. Also scoring during the game-altering run were: Motkowski, McGee, Grant, and Herr. The surge broke open the game at 13-7 heading to the break and Clarkson would never get closer than five for the remainder of regulation.
 
Much of the second half was the Hallack and Wagener show, as both players relentlessly attacked Clarkson's defensive vulnerabilities. The duo combined on a three-goal run over a 4:34 span to push the lead back out to eight goals at 18-10. A subsequent three-goal run that again was delivered through the crosse's of Hallack and Wagener widened the advantage to nine goals at 21-12 with 11:00 left in regulation. Both players would score three times each during those successive runs.
 
Although Clarkson put together one final push with eight minutes to player it would not be enough. Petrone, Roderick and Melisa Clark briefly gave the visitors some life with a three-goal spurt over just 48-seconds of game action to close the gap within six goals at 21-15. However, a three-goal run that featured goals from Wagener, Panara and Motkowski iced the game down the stretch. The 24-goal output is the program's most since scoring 26 times in a victory over Alfred on March 25, 2017. Today's output also represented the third-most goals that Clarkson has ever conceded in the 40-year history of the program, while it ranks among the most combined goals that Ithaca's program has ever witnessed in a single game.
 
Ithaca will be back in action on Wednesday, April 10, when it head to Geneva, N.Y., for a huge Liberty League matchup against No. 18 William Smith. Both teams enter the contest undefeated in league action with the winner set to grab command of the inside track in the chase for the regular-season title. Start time for the contest is 4:00 p.m.