Senior Claire Hourihan scored two goals to reverse an early
deficit and run her scoring streak to seven games.
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#4 Stonehill Runs Past Saint Anselm, 5-1
Hourihan nets two goals as
Skyhawks bounce back from midweek loss
Boxscore
EASTON,
Mass. (October 9, 2009) - Stonehill College, ranked fourth
in this week's Kookaburra/National Field Hockey Coaches Association
(NFHCA) Division II poll, erased an early deficit by scoring
five-straight goals to post a 5-1 victory over Saint Anselm College
in Northeast-10 Conference field hockey action at W.B. Mason
Stadium this afternoon.
Senior forward Claire
Hourihan (East Amherst, N.Y./Williamsville North) sparked
the Stonehill comeback with a pair of goals, running her
team-leading total to 16 - just four shy of her own single-season
record set last season. Hourihan has now scored in seven-straight
games for the Skyhawks and her 45 career goals are within eight of
Caitlin Gleason's career program record of 53 set from 2004-07.
Senior All-American Jackie
Ladino (North Dartmouth, Mass./Dartmouth), junior
Lindsay Pinkham (Skowhegan, Maine/Skowhegan Area)
and sophomore Lauren Colligan (Cazenovia, N.Y./Cazenovia
Central) also scored goals for Stonehill who has won 11 of
it last 12 contests.
Saint Anselm struck first as
sophomore Morgan Seney (Bow, N.H./Bow) scored her
second goal of the season off a feed from junior Annie
Heaney (East Kingston, N.H./Exeter) 12:30 into the
contest.
Sophomore Lauren Colligan scored her first career goal to
put the Skyhawks up 3-1.
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Freshman Lindsay MacDonald
(Dedham, Mass./Dedham) finished with four saves over 61:07
in goal for Saint Anselm. Classmate Megan Sullivan
(Braintree, Mass./Thayer Academy) played the final 8:53
and posted one stop. Junior Courtney Osier (South Dennis,
Mass./Dennis-Yarmouth) played the full 70 minutes in goal
for Stonehill and didn't register a save as the Skyhawks posted a
21-1 advantage in shots for the game and a 26-1 edge in penalty
corners.
Stonehill finally came up with an
answer for Seney's opening goal 3:36 before halftime when Hourihan
worked a give and go with senior Stephanie Kott (Rutland,
Mass./Notre Dame Academy) off a penalty corner and fired a
shot past MacDonald. Hourihan put the Skyhawks up for good 9:21
into the second half when she knocked in a loose ball off a rebound
on the far side from close range for her 16th goal of
the season.
Colligan netted her first career
goal just under 11-minutes later when she took a pass from
sophomore Kathryn Nelson (Shrewsbury,
Mass./Shrewsbury) and knocked the ball in from close range
at 55:13. The Skyhawks added two more goals in the final ten
minutes to seal victory. Ladino netted her ninth of the season into
an empty net off a rebound with 8:53 to play, before Pinkham scored
her third of the fall off a penalty corner from juniors
Courtney Foley (Wakefield, Mass./Wakefield
Memorial) and Lauren Gifford (Goffstown,
N.H./Goffstown).
Stonehill (11-3, 5-1 NE-10) is back
in action on Tuesday when it visits No. 5-ranked University of
Massachusetts Lowell for a key Northeast-10 battle at 7 p.m. The
Skyhawks are back home next Thursday to host Assumption College at
4 p.m. Saint Anselm (1-12, 0-6 NE-10) hosts UMass Lowell next
Thursday at 4 p.m.
