Oneonta, NY – The Hawks finally got their home season underway on one of the first nice spring days on Oyaron Hill. The Hawks seized the day and dominated for 40 minutes. A 13-6 win for the Hawks on their home turf moved them to 3-1 and dropped Kings to 0-5.

Kristen Vaccarelli started the scoring for the Hawks, a dodge down the alley past her defender which led to a 1 on 1 battle with the King's goalie which she won. Claudia Pollaro followed right behind her with her first goal of the day off a pass from Gabrielle Stringer. Katrina Marten followed soon after with a goal of her own coming off a dodge past her defender that found the back of the net. With 5 minutes left in the first Claudia Pollaro snagged a pass from Emily Schaub that she snuck past the Kings keeper to make the game 4-0 and force a timeout. The quarter that was all Wick got tested with 30 seconds left when King's Natasha Koslop scored her first goal of the day.

Vaccarelli started the scoring off for the Hawks in the second when she netted her second goal of the game off a dodge from the sideline, moving the score in favor of the hosts 5-1.  Gabrielle Stringer then found her first goal of the game off a pass from Katrina Marten from behind the net. The Hawks pulled away to a 6 goal lead when Vaccarelli found the twine off a bounce shot that stung the top right corner for a 7-1 score. Vaccarelli showed she could do it all when she won the draw control and dimed up Emily Schaub on the backside for an 8-1 lead.

Kings didn't roll over to the dominating Hawks, and started the scoring in the third.  A goal from King's Allison Lindsay cut the Hawks' lead to 8-2. Schaub extended the game to 7 when her second goal of the game from Marten hit the net. King's once again showed they wouldn't go away rattling off 2 goals with less than 2 minutes left in the third from Lindsay and Grace Venis.

Once again Vaccarelli showed she came to play today when she tallied her fourth and fifth goals - one from a free position and the other from Schaub. Kings answered Vaccarelli's domination with a goal from Carli Komorrowski with 9:38 to play. It was Pollaro from Stringer who made the game 12-5 with 5 minutes to play and the game seemed to be in favor of the Hawks, but a King's goal two minutes later brought the game to 12-6. Schaub put the final nail in the coffin with a free-position goal in the last minute of the game.

Kristen Vaccarelli led the way for the Hawks tallying five goals, Caludia Pollaro and Emily Schaub followed right behind with three apiece, with Katrina Marten and Gabrielle Stringer each having 1.  Samantha Miller played all 60 minutes in goal and made 7 saves on the day.

The Hawks return to action this Wednesday, when they travel to crosstown rival Oneonta for a 3 pm start.