KEENE, N.H. 11/1/00 - Playing in her final home game, senior Kelly Smith (Lisbon, N.H.) had a goal and an assist to lead the second seed Keene State College field hockey team to a 3-1 win over seventh seed Mount Holyoke College in a ECAC Division III Quarterfinal game played Wednesday at Owl Stadium Complex.

Keene State (17-5) will advance to the semifinals on Saturday (Time TBA) where they will face six seed Clark University which upset Wellesley College 3-0 in their quarterfinal game.

Top seed Tufts University, which defeated eighth seed Bates College 1-0 in penalty strokes will host the semifinals and championship games. Tufts will face Wesleyan (1-0 winners over Conn. College) in the other semifinal matchup.

Mount Holyoke, which was playing KSC for the first time since the 1983 season, concluded its season with a 10-9 mark.

Two well executed penalty corner goals gave KSC a 2-0 lead. Nichole Dallas (Marlow, N.H.) fired in her third of the season to give the Owls a 1-0 half-time lead. Smith made it 2-0 when she netted her team-leading 16th of the season 15 minutes into the second half.

"With corners you need all the parts clicking at the right time, and tonight we got off a couple of good shots, said KSC Coach Amy Watson.

Taking a centering pass from Smith, Tanya Strong (Hatfield, Mass.) scored the final Owls goal, her 11th this season, when she tipped the ball past Lyon goalie Elizabeth Wishart. It was a special night for the KSC seniors. "We came out really intense and each one of us played for a minute, " said Smith, who earlier was named LEC Player of the Year for the second straight season. "To walk off with a win was a great feeling."

Goalie Lindsay Hamilton (Brattleboro, Vt.), who had five saves, lost her shutout when Amy Gimbel scored off a corner after time expired. Wishart finished with 12 saves for Mount Holyoke.

Keene State goes on to face Clark on Saturday.