Kathleen Keale	Alyssa Fania
Meghan Kearney	Maria Begliomini

Box Score

SCRANTON, Pa.—Even Mother Nature couldn’t slow down junior midfielder Kathleen Keale (Wall, NJ/Wall) of The University of Scranton field hockey team Friday evening.

Keale scored two goals and the Royals withstood a 61-minute weather delay to pull off a 4-1 victory over Goucher College at Fitzpatrick Field.

Junior midfielder Alyssa Fania (Annandale, NJ/North Hunterdon) added a goal and two assists and sophomore midfielder Meghan Kearney (Broomall, Pa./Cardinal O’Hara) tallied a goal as Scranton improved to 9-1 overall and 1-1 in the conference.

Goucher, now 3-7 overall and 0-1 in the Landmark, received a goal from sophomore midfielder Antonia DiLuca (Ardmore, Pa./Friends Central) and sophomore goalkeeper Demie Huffman (Granville, Ohio/Granville) finished with 14 saves.

Fania set up Keale’s first goal with a picture-perfect pass after beating several Gopher defenders down the left sideline as Scranton jumped on top, 1-0, in the 10th minute of the first half.

Goucher, however, tied it up moments later on a successful conversion of a penalty corner.  DiLuca delivered the ball to the top of the circle to junior forward Justine Ruhlin (Cornish, Maine/Sacopee Valley), who drilled a shot towards the left-hand side of the cage that DiLuca was able to tap-in for her first goal of the season.

The Royals dominated from this point on, taking the lead for good when Fania converted a penalty stroke in the 23rd minute before Keale deflected a ball off of a scramble in front of the cage just before halftime to give Scranton a 3-1 cushion by intermission.  Fania’s goal was her team-leading seventh of the season.

The Royals held a commanding 38-2 advantage in shots and a 17-5 margin in penalty corners.

Keale, who entered this season with one goal in her career, has now scored four goals in her last three games.

Scranton will return to Landmark Conference action this Wednesday, October 9, against Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, beginning at 4:00 p.m.

News & Notes:  With four points tonight, Fania moved into 20th place on the Royals’ all-time scoring list with 46 total points (18 goals, 10 assists)…Junior Maria Begliomini (Shickshinny, Pa./Northwest Area) played the entire 70 minutes in goal for Scranton to improve to 5-0 on the season and 14-5 in her career...Scranton is now 8-0 lifetime against Goucher.

--ROYALS--