HAMILTON – Maria Krull (Leicester, Massachusetts) tallied nine saves for the Colgate field hockey team Sunday afternoon as the Raiders fell to the Rider Broncs, 2-0, at Tyler's Field.
Krull is nearing the 100-save mark for the third consecutive season with her nine on Sunday giving her 95 in the 2017 season. In her career, Krull now has 475 saves for the Raiders.
The Raiders battled hard all game long but could not manage to break the Broncs defense.
Rider took a 1-0 lead just over 13 minutes into the first half as Allison Baligian picked up her team-leading fifth goal of the season.
Katie Anderson (Greene, New York) nearly tied up the game for the Raiders with 20:28 left in the second half but Rider goalkeeper Lena Vandam narrowly turned the shot away for her only save of the game.
The Broncs continued to cling to their 1-0 lead until five minutes later when Eline De Jong tallied an insurance goal for her fourth of the year to make it 2-0 with 15:21 to play in the second half.
BOTTOM LINE
Rider 2, Colgate 0
WIN/LOSS RECORDS
The Broncs have now won three of their last five games to improve to 5-5 (0-1 MAAC) while the Raiders drop to 2-9 (0-3 Patriot League)
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Krull picked up nine saves for the Raiders to give her 95 this season
-Her 475 career saves still rank fifth in program history, putting her 58 saves away from passing her predecessor Amanda DiDomizio '15 (532 saves) for fourth place
-Krull is tied for first in the Patriot League with Holy Cross' Marcia LaPlante with 95 saves and a .772 save percentage while Krull's 8.64 saves per game average ranks second behind LaPlante
-Krull is third in the league with a 2.39 GAA
FACTS AND FIGURES
-Rider outshot Colgate 18-5 Sunday afternoon and held an 11-1 edge in shots on goal
-The Broncs secured 14 penalty corners compared to one for the Raiders.
UP NEXT
The Raiders hit the road for the final time this season when they face the Bucknell Bison on Saturday at 11 a.m. in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, before closing out the regular season with a five-game homestand.
