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Bengals left on outside of playoffs with loss
By Leif Reigstad
On April 24, 2013
The Buffalo State lacrosse team's SUNYAC playoff hopes were crushed by No. 22
Geneseo Tuesday in an 18-8 road loss despite a hat trick from Meghan Farrell.
The follow up to last season's NCAA Tournament run has not gone smoothly for the
Bengals, who hoped, and expected, to get there again this year.
"It's been rough," coach Meg Stevens said. "I think we've got a program that's used to
a lot of success, (so) we're not good at losing. Nobody is - I'm not good at losing. The
players aren't good at losing, and I think people are just frustrated."
The Knights flustered the Bengals from the start, taking an early lead. Geneseo scored
the game's first two goals before Farrell scored on an assist from senior attack Ashley
Caporizzo.
After Geneseo scored the next five goals, the Bengals found themselves in a hole too
deep to climb out of. Junior attack Becca Martinez scored to make it 7-2, but the Knights
outscored the Bengals 3-1 to close the half with an 11-3 lead.
The second half was more of the same for Buffalo State. Senior Sara Kirchberger opened
the scoring in the second stanza for the Bengals, but Geneseo was able to dominate
possession and maintain a comfortable lead that eventually grew to 18-8.
Geneseo (10-4, 4-3 SUNYAC) clinched a playoff berth in the win, while Buffalo State
(7-8, 2-5 SUNYAC) dropped to seventh in the league standings. Two games behind the
fifth and final playoff spot - and with only one game remaining on the schedule - the
Bengals are mathematically eliminated from postseason play.
The numbers didn't favor the Bengals during the game, either. Geneseo held a 22-
5 advantage on draw controls and outshot Buffalo State 40-18. Stevens said her team
played fairly well on offense when they had possession, but estimated that the Bengals
controlled the ball for less than 15 minutes of the whole game.
"We just didn't have the ball on offense a whole lot," Stevens said. "When we did have
the ball we didn't convert, and we had major issues with draw controls. If you don't have
the ball, you're not going to score a lot of goals. It was just a time of possession issue."
Including Geneseo, the Bengals have played three straight nationally ranked teams with
each ending in a loss.
"I think the problem from this season is we have a lot of 'what ifs,' and games we didn't
play our best in," Stevens said. "SUNYAC women's lacrosse is getting better and better.
You're not going to be able to just walk through games anymore and we've had a number
of games where we didn't show up and play well. That's just not going to do it anymore."
Buffalo State plays at Potsdam at 1 p.m. Saturday. It's a chance for the Bengals to
finish .500 on the season and, as Stevens said, a chance for the players to show their true
character.
"I don't take a lot of positives from (the Geneseo) game, but I think we've got players
that don't give up, which is great," Stevens said. "It would be easy to kind of just roll
over and die, but we're not giving up."
Leif Reigstad can be reached by email at reigstad.record@live.com and on Twitter
@LeifReigstad
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