ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell women's lacrosse team closed out it three-game home stretch with a dominant 14-6 win over upstate non-conference foe Colgate Tuesday evening at Schoellkopf Field. The result was fueled by a stretch of nine unanswered goals that spanned from the latter portion of the first half to end of tatter portion of the second. Junior goalkeeper Katie MacGahan followed up her big performance against Harvard with another solid outing in net. MacGahan edged her previous season-high of 12 saves, which she set a few days earlier against the Crimson, with a new best of 13. The Atlanta native also allowed a season-low four goals in in net before Samantha Nielson came on in place of her with just over four minutes remaining. Sophomore midfielder Ellie Walsh had a career day, racking up a total of five points on three goals and two assists, all of which are career highs. The Bronxville, New York, native wasted no time getting started. Walsh claimed the opening draw and charged down the field towards the goal before putting home her first of the three goals to put the Big Red (2-2) up 1-0 just 10 seconds into the game. The Raiders (2-4) answered back with a goals from Noelle Patterson that was assisted on by goalkeeper Samantha Croston. Croston slowly brought the ball up past the restriction line and fired a dart up the middle of the field to Patterson who cruised towards the goal to even things up at one with 26:26 left in the opening frame. That would be the closest the contest would be for the remainder of the game. After a 10-minute scoring drought, captains Sarah Phillips and Caroline Allen netted the next two goals for the Big Red to put Cornell back up two. Then, Colgate's Lindsay West found the back of the net with the assist from Danielle Van Calcar to cut the Big Red's lead back to one. Grace Paletta was the next to get on the score sheet with an unassisted tally with 10:46 left in the first half. Roughly a minute and a half later Genevieve DeWinter netted her seventh goal of the season to put the Big Red ahead three. Colgate's Patterson answered back with her second goal of the contest with 8:21 left to make the score 5-3. The Big Red kept them off the board for the next 33:17. Paletta netted her second goal of the game with 4:45 left in the first, a goal that ignited the 9-0 run. Olivia Jensen netted the final goal of the first half to put the Big Red up 7-3 entering the break. Walsh got the Big Red on the board with 26:26 left in the second half, notching her second tally of the afternoon. Shannon Bertscha and Allen and the next two tallies for the Big Red before Walsh completed her first career hat trick with 17:05 remaining. Just under a minute and half later, Walsh connected with Phillips to set a new career-high in assists with her second of the contest and put the Big Red ahead 12-3. Cornell had a pair of free positon goals to put them ahead 14-3. The Raiders closed out the game with three unanswered goals. The Big Red travels down to the Big Apple to take on Columbia in its second Ivy League game this Saturday at 1 p.m. On Monday it will travel back to downstate for a matchup with Marist in Poughkeepsie. NOTES TO KNOW This marks the first non-conference win of the season for the Big Red. Cornell 19 straight games against Colgate dating back to 1998. This marks two consecutive games that the Big Red has kept its opponent of the board for span greater than 30 minutes. Cornell is up to a .500 win percentage on the season.