Box Score
Box Score
TOWSON, Md. - Sophomore Elizabeth Tolley (Brookside, N.J./West Morris Mendham) scored the game-winner in the second round of penalty strokes, lifting the University of Scranton field hockey team to a 2-1 victory in double overtime at Goucher on Saturday in Landmark Conference play.
With the win, the Royals snapped a six-match losing streak, improving to 5-10 overall and 2-4 in the Landmark Conference. Goucher fell to 7-8 overall and 2-4 in the Landmark with the defeat.
In the opening half, Scranton was first to strike in the win, as senior Elizabeth Yorey (Wayne, N.J./Wayne Hills) scored, unassisted, eight minutes into the ballgame. That lead held for the first 35 minutes, as the Royals went into intermission up 1-0 on the host Gophers.
In the second period, Goucher knotted the match up at 1-1 with a goal in the 55th minute. The score remained that way into the end of regulation, as the match headed into overtime.
In the overtime periods, Goucher fired at will on the Scranton net, taking 17 shots in the overtime periods (nine in the first overtime and eight in the second).
However, freshman goalie Tate Ackerman (Endicott, N.Y./Seton Catholic Central) was fantastic in the overtime frames, making 11 saves to keep the match tied. In the first overtime, Ackerman made eight saves alone to keep the match going.
Tied at 1-1 after the two overtime periods, the game went into penalty strokes. The Royals got goals from Tolley and Yorey in the first round, as Yorey's goal knotted things up at 2-2.
After a Goucher miss, Yorey had a chance to end the match on the second round of penalty strokes, and did so, as Scranton took the round, 3-2, to take the match in thrilling fashion.
Overall, Goucher outshot Scranton in the match, 24-16 and held a 16-10 edge on penalty corners, as well.
The University of Scranton field hockey team returns to action on Wednesday, hosting Vassar at home in their final non-conference match of the year. Action gets underway at Fitzpatrick Field beginning at 7 p.m.
--ROYALS--
