Senior Claire Hourihan's game-winning goal today at Adelphi
gives her 101 career points.
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#5 Stonehill Edges Adelphi,
2-1
Hourihan nets game-winner,
collects 100th career point
Boxscore
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (October
3, 2009) - Stonehill College, ranked fifth in this week's
Kookaburra/National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA)
Division II poll, extended its winning streak to ten games with a
2-1 victory over Adelphi University in Northeast-10 Conference
field hockey action at Competition Field today.
Senior Claire Hourihan
(East Amherst, N.Y./Williamsville North) scored the
game-winning goal and in the process became just the second player
in program history to surpass 100 points for her career. Junior
Courtney Foley (Wakefield, Mass./Wakefield
Memorial) also netted a goal for the Skyhawks who won
their tenth-straight game.
Junior goalkeeper Courtney
Osier (South Dennis, Mass./Dennis-Yarmouth) made two
second half saves to preserve the win for Stonehill. Sophomore
Lucia Vigliotti (Westbury, N.Y./W.T. Clarke)
finished with four stops in goal for Adelphi who was out-shot 12-5
by the Skyhawks.
Junior Courtney Foley opened the scoring today with her
fifth goal of the season.
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All three goals were scored within
a span of 5:05 early in the second half. Foley put Stonehill in
front 8:50 into the stanza when she converted a penalty stroke for
her fifth goal of the season. Adelphi answered less than three
minutes later as freshman Cassie Cabral (Sayville, N.Y./Sayville)
pounced on a rebound and evened the contest at 46:29. Hourihan put
the Skyhawks in front for good just under two and a half minutes
later when she took a pass from senior Stephanie Kott
(Rutland, Mass./Notre Dame Academy) and fired in her
team-leading 13th goal of the season at 48:55.
The goal for Hourihan is the
42nd of her career, moving into a tie for second on
Stonehill's career list with former teammate Aly Boulis
(2004-2007). Hourihan's goal also gives her 101 career points,
becoming just the second player in program history to reach the 100
career point plateau - joining Caitlin Gleason who totaled a
program record 132 points from 2004-07, including a record 53
goals. Hourihan is the 13th field hockey player in NE-10
history to reach 100 career points.
Stonehill (10-2, 4-0 NE-10) returns
to action on Wednesday when it visits Franklin Pierce University at
6 p.m. The Skyhawks next home game is two days later when they host
Saint Anselm College at W.B. Mason Stadium at 4 p.m. Adelphi (7-5,
2-1 NE-10) hosts Franklin Pierce next Saturday at noon.