(Canton, N.Y.)- Freshman Keeley Rice (Potsdam, N.Y.) produced a season-high 10 points and sophomore Tressa Goolden (Canton, N.Y.) collected seven points helping the SUNY Canton women’s lacrosse team get back on the winning ways with a 17-8 win over Green Mountain College Sunday afternoon in Canton.

Rice tossed in four goals and set up six others, while Goolden notched a game-high five goals to go along with two assists, as the Roos snapped a two-game slide and evened their record at 5-5.

Freshman Megan Poupore (Massena, N.Y.) added three goals and one assist. Junior Brooke Knight (Madrid, N.Y.) scored twice. Sophomore Devyn Hutcheson (Oswego, N.Y.) contributed a goal and an assist, and freshman Caitlin Lavoie (Fulton, N.Y.), and sophomore Roxana Guerra (Kingston, N.Y.) each scored once.

SUNY Canton received a strong defensive effort from junior Cady Darling (Oswego, N.Y.) who had a team-high six caused turnovers and seven ground balls, and freshman Keri Dempsey (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) who had five caused turnovers and three ground balls.

The Roos outshot the Eagles 43-13, won the ground ball battle 44-30 and caused 23 of Green Mountain’s 33 turnovers.

Green Mountain took their only lead of the game when Corinne Colpitts scored the first goal of the day 2:25 into the opening half. Poupore tied the game off a feed from Rice with 26:09 on the clock starting a run of three straight SUNY Canton goals that pushed the home team ahead 3-1. Johanna Douglas struck twice to help the Eagles tied the game 3-3, but the Roos closed the first half with four unanswered goals from Poupore, LaVoie, Rice, and Goolden to lead 7-3 at halftime.

Hutcheson and Rice tallied unassisted goals in the first five minutes of the second half to open a 9-3 SUNY Canton advantage. After Douglas scored again for Green Mountain to close the gap to 9-4, Guerra scored off a free position shot and Knight finished a pass from Rice to help the Roos open a seven-goal lead at 11-4.

The Eagles did pull within five goals when Colpitts and Douglas scored three minutes apart with under 10 minutes remaining in the game, but the Roos fired in four straight goals over the final six minutes of the half, capped off by Goolden’s fifth goal to win their third game at home this season.

Freshman Alyssa Altschuler (Cheshire, Conn.) made two saves to earn her fifth win of the season.

Douglas finished an outstanding game with four goals and one assist and she also had 13 draw controls and 13 ground balls. Colpitts ended the day with three goals, and Virginia Anderson made 19 saves in goal.

The Roos return to their home turf on Tuesday, April 16 when they face Clarkson University at 4 p.m.