Field Hockey Falls in Overtime 4-3 to St. Michael's
Springfield, Mass - . Despite being up
2-0 at halftime, the American International College field hockey
team fell 4-3, in overtime, to the Purple Knight's of St. Michael's
College in a Northeast-10 showdown Saturday afternoon at Benedum
field, on campus at Springfield College.
The win propels the Purple Knight's to 2-5 overall and 1-4 in the Northeast-10 while the loss drops the Yellow Jackets to 2-4 overall and 2-4 in the Northeast-10.
AIC got ahead 2-0 off of goals from Stephanie Laskey (Erving, Mass.) and Chelsey Grogan (Greenfield, Mass.) in the first-frame. Laskey scored the team's first-goal after receiving a penalty corner pass from Nicole Signorelli (East Greenbush, NY) and blasting it past Purple Knight goalie Jordan Smalling who recorded five saves in net.
With just 11 ticks showing on the clock before halftime Grogan took a feed from Jamie Anderson (North Attleboro, Mass.) from the right hash and snuck it by Smalling to give the Jackets a two-goal advantage.
St. Micahel's climbed back into the game when Chelsea Kimball got on a breakaway after taking a pass from Kaitlin Koffink and fired a shot past AIC netminder Cindy Armand (Danvers, Mass.) who also recorded five saves in net.
The Jackets made the score 3-1 at the 47:57 mark, after Nicole Phelps redirected an Anderson shot into the back of the cage.
With the score 3-1, St. Michael's mounded a comeback behind the brilliant play of Andrea Slaven who notched three goals, one of which in overtime to end the game.
Slaven scored her first goal two minutes after the Phelps score unassisted from the left-wing. Slaven struck again at the 53:19 mark after taking a cross from Brittany O'Brien and flicking it past Armand, tying the score.
With things evened at three all, the game went into overtime were Slaven needed only 3:13 to position her self for the game-winning goal.
Next up, the Jackets will visit UMass-Lowell September 18th. The game is slated to start at 7::00 pm.