CORTLAND, NY – Nick Stoecker (East Setauket/Ward Melville) scored a career-high seven goals to lead the Cortland men's lacrosse team to a 26-3 victory over Plattsburgh in the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) finale on Saturday afternoon on Grady Field. 
 
Cortland improves to 12-5 (7-0 SUNYAC), with the Red Dragons also completing their third straight season with a perfect league mark. Plattsburgh drops to 9-5 (4-3 SUNYAC) with the defeat. 
 
Thanks to a Potsdam victory over Oswego in other SUNYAC action today, Plattsburgh secured the fourth seed in the upcoming conference tournament. Cortland, after clinching the top seed in the conference last Wednesday, will host the fourth-seeded Cardinals in the semifinals of the SUNYAC tournament on this upcoming Wednesday, with game time still to be announced. 
 
Stoecker finished with eight points on the game for the Red Dragons, adding an assist to go with his seven goals. Sean Kavanagh (North Canton, OH/Hoover) and Caden Morra (Farmingdale/Plainedge) each added five points, with Kavanagh scoring four goals and adding an assist and Morra registering two goals and three assists. James Violi (East Islip) scored two goals and contributed an assist.
 
Four other Red Dragons had multiple points, as Mason Carroll (Clifton Park/Shendehowa), Nathan Nagengast (Bay Shore), Colton Hornquist (Eden), and Stefan Swedlund (Randolph, NJ) all had a goal and an assist. Nicky Miltenberger won 12-of-13 faceoffs, had six ground balls, and also scored a goal. 
 
Charlie Falowski (Redding, CT/Joel Barlow) made seven saves and allowed just two goals in three quarters of action. James Sullivan (Rockville Centre/South Side) and AJ Surian (Bay Shore) each finished with three caused turnover and an assist for the Red Dragons. 
 
Jamie Gipe scored two goals for the Cardinals, while Connor Wiggins also added a tally. Kevin Murray finished with two caused turnovers and five ground balls, while Fynn Whitlock had two caused turnovers and three ground balls. 
 
The Red Dragons jumped out to a 9-0 lead after one quarter of action. Stoecker scored three times during the period for the Red Dragons, and Kavanagh, Carroll, Morra, Miltenberger, Violi, and Nagengast each added one tally of their own.
 
Cortland continued its offensive onslaught in the second quarter with three early goals to extend the lead to 12-0 with 9:30 remaining in the half. Swedlund tallied his team-leading 52nd goal of the season, and Eli Volk (Alamo, CA/San Ramon Valley) and Stoecker each scored goals just seven seconds apart after a faceoff win by Miltenberger. 
 
Gipe finally got Plattsburgh on the board with under seven minutes left in the half, but Cortland responded with goals by Kavanagh, Patrick O'Doherty (Lynbrook), and James Devine (Haverstraw/North Rockland) to build the lead up to 15-1. Gipe tallied a goal in the final minute of the second quarter, but Cortland held a commanding 15-2 edge into halftime.
 
The Red Dragons outscored the Cardinals by a 7-0 margin in the third quarter, with Stoecker scoring three more times, Kavanagh adding two goals, and Violi and Morra also netting goals in the frame. 
 
Four Cortland players scored their first goals of the game in the fourth quarter, before Wiggins finished off the scoring in the contest for Plattsburgh with 5:56 remaining. All four of the Red Dragons' goals in the final frame were assisted, as Sean Olvany (Canandaigua/Canandaigua Academy) scored off an assist from Hornquist, Drew Williamee (Canandaigua/Canandaigua Academy) was set up for a goal by Jimmy Addonizio (Manlius/Fayetteville-Manlius), Jacob Miller (Binghamton/Blue Ridge) scored off a feed from Nate Marinaro (Binghamton/Chenango Valley), and Hornquist scored after an assist from Bubba Baumeister (Yorktown Heights/Lakeland).
 
Prior to the contest, Cortland honored its 10 graduating seniors for Senior Day – Violi, Nagengast, Tucker Macknik (Baldwinsville/C.W. Baker), Colin Doyle (Baldwinsville/C.W. Baker), Stoecker, Addonizio, Dino Bowen (Yorktown), Daniel Delaney (Albany), Michael Avgenikos (Cazenovia/Morrisville-Eaton), and Surian.