Box Score
Box Score
Photo Gallery (Courtesy of Dan Caccacci)
Editor's Note: A scoring change was made Friday, October 25, and the recap below has been edited to reflect the change.
SCRANTON, Pa.—The University of Scranton field hockey team put a scare into top-ranked Montclair State University Wednesday afternoon at Fitzpatrick Field.
The Royals scored twice in the final 12 minutes of play before the Red Hawks hung on for a 3-2 victory.
Senior back Sierra Rauchbach (East Brunswick, NJ/East Brunswick) and freshman forwards Gianna Moglino (Holmdel, NJ/Holmdel) and Arielle Galgano (Cedar Run, NJ/Southern Regional) scored a goal apiece and senior midfielder Jennifer Tafro (Little Falls, NJ/Passaic Valley) had two assists as Montclair State won its fifth straight game to improve to 15-1.
Scranton, now 12-3, received a goal from sophomore forward Krista Osborne (Blue Bell, Pa./Gwynedd-Mercy) and junior midfielder Kathleen Keale (Wall, NJ/Wall) and assists from senior forward Megan McLaughlin (Rye Brook, NY/School of the Holy Child) and junior midfielder Alyssa Fania (Annandale, NJ/North Hunterdon).
Montclair State made the most of its scoring opportunities in the first half, scoring twice in the first 20 minutes on just four shot attempts. Rauchbach tapped in a shot for a goal off of a cross served by Moglino in the 13th minute before Tafro set up Moglino’s 11th goal of the year with a pass from the top of the circle four minutes later. After Galgano deflected in a cross from Tafro in the 39th minute, it appeared as if the highly regarded Red Hawks would turn the game into a rout.
No so.
Scranton continue to chip away and finally broke through in the 59th minute when Fania delivered a ball from the right sideline that McLaughlin was able to defect towards Osborne, who tapped it in for her seventh goal of the year. In the 65th minute, Fania drilled a shot from outside the scoring circle on a ball served up by Osborne on a penalty corner that Keale deflected in for her seventh goal.
Neither team, however, got off another shot attempt after Keale’s goal.
The Red Hawks held a 12-5 advantage in shots and a 9-5 margin in penalty corners.
Sophomore goalkeeper Rebecca Brattole (Clark, NJ/Arthur L. Johnson) made one save for Montclair while Scranton junior Maria Begliomeni (Shickshinney, Pa./Northwest Area) came on in relief of starter Krista Mundy (North Caldwell, NJ/West Essex) and made five saves.
The Royals will return to action this Saturday, October 26, against Drew University in Landmark Conference action beginning at 1:00 p.m. at Fitzpatrick Field.
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