The Cortland Red Dragons had a dominating performance last Saturday at home against the Brockport Golden eagles 17-7.
Cortland now has a record of 8-4 overall and 3-1 in Conference matchups. After beating Brockport, they are now 3-8 overall and 1-4 in conference matchups.
In the first period Cortland scored their first goal in the first two minutes to take a 1-0 lead by Austin Palmer. This was Austin Palmers first goal of the season. Cortland showed how dominate their offense was and scored another goal to make the score 2-0 by Jason Chiodo and assisted by Caden Yancey.
With 8:45 minutes left of the period Cortland extended their lead 3-0 from Troy Morris. Cortland would score their last goal in the period with 7:54 left of the period by Ryan Smith and assisted by Ryan Scanlon.
Towards the end of the period the Brockport responded with one goal with 1:52 left of the period.
In the second period Cortland continued with their aggressive offense out scoring Brockport 8-3 two by Troy Morris, Tyler Starrett, Klay Stuver assisted by Tyler Starrett, Dante Yacavone assisted by Jason Chiodo, Austin Palmer assisted by Jason Chiodo and, Jason Chiodo assisted by Kole Stuver.
In the third period it was a less offensive game. In the first five minutes. In the 10:16 minute Dante Yacavone scored to make the score 4-12. Brockport answered back with two goals to make the score 6-12. The final score of the third period was 6-13
Cortland cruised through the fourth period only giving up 1 goal and outscored the Golden Eagles 4-1. To make the win streak to 2.
At the end of the game, I was able to get in contact with The Student Assistant/Manger Jaden Diggs.
I asked him What was your guy’s focus in practice to get the win against Brockport?
He said, “One of our main focuses is to execute? This means we need to work on executing our plays, keeping the energy level high all the way through practice, and bringing everything together the following day in the game. We also focused on film and scout prior to Brockport as we do pregame for each team, to assure all of our guys know who they are playing and what ti watch out for. the win for us was well deserved and our guys work payed off, but we will continue working for the upcoming to continue to execute our plan.”
Next game coming up is against the Ithaca Bombers. The last time Cortland played against Ithaca was in the 2022 season.
Last season Cortland defeated the Ithaca Bombers in a game that went down to the wire. The score of the game was 13-11.