GENEVA, N.Y. - The eighth-ranked William Smith College field hockey team improved to 7-0 on the season after defeating Lebanon Valley 7-4 on McCooey Field this afternoon. The Herons used six different goal scorers to capture their seventh victory. Today's game marked the sixth time this season William Smith scored at least five goals.
 
First-year Fallon Adair opened the game's scoring at 24:12 of the first half. She collected a bouncing ball and pushed it across the goal line. The goal was her first career goal. Junior Alessandra Patrizio was credited with an assist on the goal after sending the bouncing pass to Adair, who was alone behind Lebanon Valley's goalie. Sophomore Alexandra Frary made it 2-0 Herons just over three minutes later. She stripped a ball from her opponent, took two steps, and blasted a shot from the top of the arc that Lebanon Valley goalie Kendra Moll had no chance of stopping.
 
Sophomore Hannah Wood gave William Smith a 3-0 lead heading into the half. As time expired in the first half, the Herons were awarded a penalty corner. With play allowed to continue until the ball cleared the 16-yard area, sophomore Maura Moran sent the ball to Wood who played give-and-go with Frary. Frary slid a pass to Wood who buried the shot.
 
Lebanon Valley (3-4) got a goal back a little over two minutes into the second half. Molly Van Leuvan potted the shot after a scramble in front of the cage. Lyndee Sheaffer was credited with an assist on the play. Twenty-eight seconds later, junior Cydney Conley collected her first goal of the season. Sarah DiMaggio, who came on in relief of Moll, turned aside a shot by Wood. Conley was there to collect the rebound and fire a shot into the open net.
 
Patrizio scored her team-leading 14th goal of the season at 6:50 of the second half. Moran fired a cross cage pass that Patrizio knocked across the goal line. Four minutes later, Maddie Fox scored for Lebanon Valley to make it a 5-2 game. Fox blasted a shot from the left side of the arc after Kristen Garman inserted a penalty corner to her.
 
Wood scored her second goal of the game, and 11th of the season, 90 seconds later. She collected a Conley pass and backhanded a shot into the goal.  Lebanon Valley's Tricia Martin notched an unassisted goal at 24:48 of the second half to make it 6-3.  
 
William Smith's seventh goal of the game was scored by junior Lindsay Brandt. Brandt redirected an Austen Gillen-Keeney shot into the back of the net. Isabella Vulopas of Lebanon Valley scored the game's final goal at 32:31, collecting a rebound that she pushed across the goal line.
 
Junior Biz Chirco started in goal for the Herons and made six saves. Lebanon Valley used three different goalies. Moll started in net and made nine saves and DiMaggio made two saves in 10:40 seconds of action. Julia Davis also saw some action.
 
William Smith owned a 22-13 advantage in shots. Both teams earned five penalty corners.
 
The Herons will return to action on Saturday, Sept. 26, when they begin Liberty League play. William Smith will welcome Rensselaer to McCooey Field for a 1 p.m. match.