Box Score TROY, N.Y. - A game that began tight and went scoreless for almost nine minutes quickly became a blowout on Wednesday for the Bard College women's lacrosse team.

The Raptors broke the scoreless deadlock with four goals in six minutes midway through the first half en route to a 12-3 romp over Sage at RPI. Bard, 2-4 overall and 1-2 in the Skyline Conference, has doubled its win total from last year, the school's first with a women's varsity lacrosse program.

Junior Kim Larie (Londonderry, N.H.) and sophomore Bridget Reddington (Caldwell, N.J.) scored 22 seconds apart to initiate the surge, and goals by Reddington, freshman Stephanie LaMont (Skippack, Pa.) and junior Farah Akhtar (Karachi, Pakistan) made it 5-0 with 10 minutes to go in the first half.

After Sage (0-2 Skyline and overall) responded with a goal, Akhtar scored again, and LaMont added two more to give the Raptors an 8-1 halftime lead.

Akhtar, Reddington, freshman Brianna Bean (Kaneohe, Hi.) and junior Jessica Philpott (Hot Springs, Va.) scored in the second half. Akhtar, Reddington and LaMont finished with three goals apiece. Senior goalie Hannah Becker (Wayne, Pa) made seven saves.

Bard outshot Sage 30-16 and had the advantage in ground balls, 35-23.

Bard's next game is at Maritime College on Saturday at 4 p.m.