HARTFORD, Conn. – No. 7 Trinity College scored twice and put 16 shots on the board in the opening 15 minutes and that more or less told the story of what would come next as the Bantams sprinted to a 9-0 win over the Keene State College field hockey team Wednesday night at Sheppard Field.
Records
- Keene State: 6-7
- No. 7 Trinity (Conn.): 10-2
How It Happened
Trinity scored twice in 50 seconds in the ninth minute and then twice in 1:46 early in the second to take a quick 4-0 lead and did not slow from there, ending a two-game slide by scoring their most goals in a game in eight years when they also won 9-0 against the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in the 2014 season opener. For Keene State, it was an undesired result as they fell under .500 the season and to 0-2 against nationally-ranked opponents this season. The Owls have not finished under .500 in any season in the Division III era or under head coach
Amy Watson, and now turn their attention to six remaining Little East Conference games, two of which are against teams that are currently ahead of them in the standings (though even in the loss column).
On this night, the Bantams saw 10 different players record a point and got multi-goal outputs from Katrina Winfield, Jackie Frank, and Emma Cohen. Trinity recorded the game's first 24 shots over the opening 35 minutes and were a fast-starter in the opening quarter, building a 2-0 lead in the ninth minute on unassisted goals 50 seconds apart from Frank and Izzy Deveney. KSC goalkeeper
Molly Edmark made seven saves in the first 15 minutes to keep their tally at just two, but three goals in a six-minute span early in the second quarter ballooned the gap to 5-0 as Molly King set up Frank and then Frank helped on Winfield's first tally. Winfield's two goals came six minutes apart, as she scored from Deveney in the 24th minute. The Bantams had only five penalty corners in the opening half, but were still able to put five goals on the board regardless after being shut out by Tufts University and Bowdoin College in their last two contests, managing 16 shots total.
Edmark (1-1) made nine saves in her 30 minutes of action in the KSC cage before
Ashley Enis played the second half and made one stop.
Cohen and Elizabeth Geisler scored twice in 2:05 early in the second half to make it 7-0, each scoring for the first time this season, with Demarest Janis and Cohen piling on two other tallies later.
Olivia McMichael (10-2) got the start in the Trinity cage and played 45 minutes and needed to make one save, stopping a
Paula Vasiliadis shot in the 39th minute, before Emma Cropper played the final 15 minutes, making her first appearance of the Bantams' season.
Penalty Strokes
- KSC has lost 11 in a row in the series since a win in 2010, five by shutout. The Owls had six wins in the series up until that year, but none since. Their last goal against Trinity came in a 3-2 loss in 2016.
- The Bantams made the Final Four last season before falling on their home field to Johns Hopkins University 1-0. Their run to the national semifinals featured a 5-0 win over St. John Fisher College, a 2-0 win over Kean University at Babson, and a 2-0 win over the host Beavers on their home field before falling to JHU.
Up Next
- Keene State returns home to take on Framingham State University (7-5, 3-4 LEC) for a Little East Conference game on Saturday, October 15 at 1:30 p.m. It will be the field hockey program's spotlight for Morgan's Message, an organization dedicated to eliminating the stigma surrounding mental health of student athletes by creating a community for and by athletes and is driven by expertise, resources, and experience, and comes in the same week as World Mental Health Day.
- Trinity travels to top-ranked Middlebury College (12-0, 7-0 NESCAC) on the same day for an 11:00 a.m. start. The Bantams have lost eight straight in that series since a 3-0 win in 2016.
