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Blue Hen field hockey team drops two in CAA play 11:22 a.m., Oct. 13, 2003--Following two hard-fought weekend losses to nationally ranked Colonial Athletic Association rivals, the University of Delaware field hockey team will return to action with a game at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 15, at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. UD fell 2-1 to the College of William & Mary, which was ranked No. 19 nationally, in a game played Friday in Williamsburg, Va. The Hens then fell 6-5 in overtime to No. 7 Old Dominion University. William & Mary built a 2-0 lead on unassisted goals by Kelly McQuade and Tiffany Reeves. UD cut the margin in half when freshman Katie Evans scored her sixth goal of the season off a feed from All-American Erica LaBar with 19:11 remaining in the game. It was the team-leading ninth assist of the season for LaBar and the 20th of her career. She moved into a tie for fourth on the UD career assist list with Rachel Barger, who is currently a member of the U.S. National Team. The loss snapped UD’s seven-game winning streak, the longest since a nine-game streak in 1998. Against Old Dominion, the Monarchs’ Rachel Daubert scored on a breakaway up the middle at 84:47 to down UD 6-5 in overtime Sunday afternoon in Norfolk. The five goals are the most Old Dominion has allowed in a CAA match since joining the conference in 1991 and are the most goals Delaware has ever scored in a loss. UD senior Jessica Breault scored twice and added an assist while LaBar registered a goal and an assist. Delaware held a 5-4 advantage late in the second half when Old Dominion’s Anna Rogers knotted the score at five off a pass from Angie Loy at 63:37 to send the game into overtime. UD fell behind 2-0 early in the first half on goals by Beth Maddox and Loy, but Breault and LaBar scored twice in a five-minute span to even the score. Rogers scored at 23:26 to give the Monarchs a 3-2 lead before goals by Breault and Evans gave the Hens a 4-3 lead. Maddox scored for the Monarchs at 48:11 to even the score at four, but junior Jessi Balmer scored her team-high ninth goal of the year to give Delaware a 5-4 lead. Freshman goalkeeper Megan Allen made five saves for Delaware, and Tina Walker posted 11 saves in net for ODU. Delaware, which was ranked No. 11 nationally going into the weekend, fell to 10-4 overall and 2-2 in CAA. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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