Box Score Green Terror tally two in each half for 4-2 win over Virginia
Wesleyan
WESTMINSTER, Md. - Four different McDaniel players scored,
including goals from Hope Battista (Crofton, Md./South
River) and Kaitlin Boerman (Pasadena,
Md./Chesapeake) 37 seconds apart in the second half, to
lift the squad to a 4-2 win over Virginia Wesleyan in
non-conference field hockey action on Monday.
The Green Terror (1-1) notched a pair of goals in the game's
first 12:09 to open a 2-0 lead at the break.
Chelsea Baker made four saves in the first 48
minutes for the Marlins (0-3), who also got a pair of stops from
Emily Raddatz in the final 22 minutes.
Stephanie Thomson (Glen Burnie, Md./Chesapeake)
made two saves for McDaniel.
On a long pass in from Katherine Jones (Westminster,
Md./Winters Mill) that bounded off defenders and the
goalkeeper, Lindsay Riordon (Monkton,
Md./Hereford) found the backboard on the backside of the
cage to stake the Green Terror to a 1-0 lead 5:40 into the game.
Off a corner in the 13th minute, Mandy Pickard
(Hampstead, Md./North Carroll) dribbled by her defender
and knocked a ball off the goalkeeper's stick and into the cage to
double the lead.
Nearly five minutes into the second half, Heather
Fay played a corner right to Valerie
Nowlan, who took a shot from the top of the arc that cut
the deficit in half.
Off a corner in the 48th minute, Jones played a short pass up
top to Battista, who fired from long range to stretch the lead back
to two.
Boerman pushed the lead to 4-1, finishing a solo run at the
47:43 mark.
At the 61:05, Heather Bias rebounded her own
shot and save to set the final margin.
The Green Terror finished with a 13-4 advantage in shots and an
11-9 edge in penalty corners.
McDaniel returns to action at Washington and Lee on Saturday.
Game time is 3:30 p.m.
Score by
Period
1
2
-
F
Virginia Wesleyan
(0-3)
0
2
-
2
McDaniel
(1-1)
2
2
-
4
Scoring
M - Lindsay Riordon, 5:40
M - Mandy Pickard, 12:09
V - Valerie Nowlan (Heather Fay), 39:58
M - Hope Battista (Katherine Jones), 47:06
M - Kaitlin Boerman, 47:43
V - Heather Bias, 61:05
Shots: V 4, M 13. Penalty
Corners: V 9, M 11. Saves: C 6 (Chelsea
Baker 4, 4 GA, 48 MP; Emily Raddatz 2, 0 GA, 22 MP), M 2 (Stephanie
Thomson).
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