First-year
Jenny L'Hommedieu scored her first collegiate goal and the St. Lawrence field hockey team was dominant through the second half, but early goals helped the University of Rochester beat the Saints 3-1 in Liberty League play on North Country Field at Hall-Leet Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
St. Lawrence outshot Rochester 26-16 in the game, including 15 shots to the Yellowjackets' four in the second half. Shots on goal were also in the Saints' favor at 18-12.
"We didn't play well all-around early in the first half, which cost us, but we started to pick it up a little later in the second quarter," head coach
Fran Grembowicz said. "Even though we were down 3-0 at the half, we dug deep and didn't hang our heads and came out fired up for the second half."
Rochester opened the scoring on its first shot of the game in the fifth minute, when Colleen Maillie sent a pass in from the right side of the circle for Amanda Strenk who beat goalkeeper
Sydney Giacin with a turnaround shot into the middle of the cage to make it a 1-0 game.
Strenk then extended the lead to 2-0 with her second of the day in the 18th minute with a quick strike from 10 yards out.
Just over two minutes later, Rochester's Catherine Hauser cashed in on a broken play coming out of the corner on the left side, as the ball skipped to the middle in front of the cage and she was able to put it behind Giacin for a 3-0 lead for the visitors.
In the third quarter, St. Lawrence outshot Rochester 9-1 with five penalty corners. It was shortly after the fifth that L'Hommedieu was able to put the Saints on the board with her first goal in the Scarlet and Brown.
Maggie Green played the ball back in from the right side of the circle and
Mckenzie Haberl,
Marlee Paterson,
Emma Zupan and L'Hommedieu were all jamming away as goalkeeper Kate Kujawa had come off her line to cut off the pass. The ball took a hard bounce of Kujawa's pads and skipped to the Blacklick, Ohio native on the left side for a simple redirect to cut the deficit to 3-1.
"We had a fantastic second half with a lot of shots on goal and solid defense to keep the ball in our end," Grembowicz added. "We had some really great passing connections up and down the field as well, but again it just comes down to finishing and putting a solid 60 together."
With time winding down in the fourth, a shot by Haberl appeared to cross the goal line and would have cut the deficit to one, but play continued and Ava Schwartz was able to clear the ball away from the cage for Rochester.
Haberl led the Saints with a game-high 11 shots on the day, while Green finished with five.
In goal, Giacin finished with seven saves, while both
Jackie Reiss and
Anna Parker made defensive saves for St. Lawrence. Kujawa stopped 17 and Schwartz earned a defensive save for her play on Haberl late in the game.
Records: St. Lawrence (3-8, 0-2 LL); Rochester (7-4, 2-0 LL)
Up Next: at William Smith on Saturday, October 12 at 3 p.m.
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