ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE FIELD HOCKEY
Saturday, September 30, 2006
View pictures from the game here (by Jim Rinck)
View pictures from the game here (by Bill Hannegan)
View pictures from the game here (by Thom Swarr, JTS Photography)
Nationally 15th-Ranked Elizabethtown Defeats Widener 2-1
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- The nationally fifteenth-ranked Elizabethtown College field hockey team improved to 9-1 overall and 3-0 in the Commonwealth Conference with a 2-1 comeback home win over Widener University Saturday. Widener drops to 5-3 overall and 1-2 in the conference with the loss.
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Val Bawell '07 scored the game-winner. |
All three of the game’s goals were scored during penalty corners. Widener took a 1-0 lead at 27:25 as Arlene Lowthert scored for the Pioneers. Widener held onto its lead until just under 14 minutes left in the game, when Megan Angstadt (Oley, PA/Oley Valley) scored off a Brenna Noon (Wyomissing, PA/Wyomissing) assist at 56:10 to tie the game at 1-1. With exactly four minutes left in regulation time, Val Bawell (New Holland, PA/Garden Spot) scored her first goal of the season, as well as the game-winner, on a Brandy Spriggle (Beaver Springs, PA/West Snyder) assist.
Elizabethtown out-shot Widener 26-6 over the course of the game and 13-1 in the second half. The Blue Jays also held a 17-4 edge in penalty corners during the game. Widener University goaltender Kate Heritage made 16 saves.
Elizabethtown will return to action on the road Wednesday, October 4 at King’s College (Pa.) in a 4:00 p.m non-conference game.
at Elizabethtown, Pa.
#15 Elizabethtown 2, Widener 1
Goals by period 1 2 Tot
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Widener University .. 1 0 - 1 |
Elizabethtown Coll... 0 2 - 2
SCORING SUMMARY:
1. 27:25 WID Lowthert, Arlene (5)
2. 56:10 ETOWN Angstadt, Megan (4) (Noon, Brenna)
3. 66:00 ETOWN Bawell, Val (1) (Spriggle, Brandy)
Shots: Widener University 6, Elizabethtown Coll. 26
Saves: Widener University 16 (Heritage, Kate 16), Elizabethtown Coll. 3 (Callaghan, Kristen 3)
View pictures from the game here (by Jim Rinck)
View pictures from the game here (by Bill Hannegan)
View pictures from the game here (by Thom Swarr, JTS Photography)