Junior Courtney Foley played a role in both Stonehill goal,
notching a goal and assist.
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#4 Stonehill Tops #3 UMass Lowell, 2-1
Ladino's second-half goal
lifts Skyhawks to fourth-straight win
Boxscore
EASTON, Mass. (September
10, 2009) - Stonehill College, ranked fourth in this
week's Kookaburra/National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA)
Division II poll, posted a 2-1 victory over 3rd-ranked
University of Massachusetts Lowell in non-conference field hockey
action at W.B. Mason Stadium tonight.
Junior Courtney Foley
(Wakefield, Mass./Wakefield Memorial) played a role in
both Stonehill goals, recording a goal and assist on the night.
Senior All-American Jackie Ladino (North Dartmouth,
Mass./Dartmouth) also collected a goal with the
match-winner in the second half.
Senior Jaci Moulton
(Baldwinville, Mass./Narragansett) scored the lone goal
for UMass Lowell.
Junior goalkeeper Courtney
Osier (South Dennis, Mass./Dennis-Yarmouth) preserved the
win in goal for Stonehill with four saves. Junior Amy
Carbon (Bellingham, Mass./Bellingham) posted three saves
in goal for UMass Lowell, which finished with a 10-6 edge in shots
for the match.
Junior Courtney Osier finished with four saves, including a
big one-on-one stop late in regulation, to preserve the
win.
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Ladino provided the difference
14:14 into the second half when she took a pass from Foley after a
penalty corner and slotted her team-leading seventh goal of the
season inside the left post from four yards out. The goal is the
26th of her career - good for fifth in program history.
UMass Lowell had two good scoring
chances as the clock was winding down to force overtime. Osier
charged off the goal line and stopped a point-blank shot from
junior Sammy Macy (Tewksbury, Mass./Tewksbury)
with 7:10 to play. The River Hawks were awarded a penalty corner in
the final minute, but were unable to get a shot off and Stonehill
gained possession to run the clock out.
Stonehill opened the scoring 13:08
into the contest when Foley took a pass from the top of the arc
from senior Stephanie Kott (Rutland, Mass./Notre Dame
Academy) following a penalty corner and fired the ball
past Carbon from the upper left hand side of the arc for her third
goal of the season.
UMass Lowell knotted the score
10:19 before halftime as Moulton took a pass from sophomore
Annie Hansbury (Plaistow, N.H./Timberland
Regional) and scored her fifth goal of the year with a
high shot from just inside the top of the circle.
Stonehill (4-2, 0-0 NE-10) is back
in action on Saturday when it visits Saint Anselm College for a
non-conference clash at 2 p.m. The Skyhawks return home next
Wednesday to host Southern Connecticut State University at 7 p.m.
UMass Lowell (5-1, 0-0 NE-10) hosts American International College
for its Northeast-10 opener on Saturday at 1 p.m.
