LEWISBURG, Pa. – Colgate field hockey first-year forward
Michaela Corvi (Newburyport, Massachusetts) tied for the team-lead with her third goal of the season as the Raiders fell to the Bucknell Bison, 4-1, at Graham Field at Holmes Stadium Saturday morning.
Corvi's goal tied sophomore
Iona MacKillop (Glasgow, Scotland) for the team lead, snapping a four-game scoreless streak. Senior midfielder
Caroline Schaefer (Avon, Connecticut) tallied her second assist of the season and tie her career-high for points in a season
Senior goalkeeper
Maria Krull (Leicester, Massachusetts) continued her impressive play this season, picking up 11 saves in the
loss and cross the 100-save mark for the third consecutive season.
Both teams were scoreless for much of the first half until Bucknell's Megan Keeney put the Bison on the board with reverse strike off a centering feed from M.C. Evans.
The Bison added a second goal with just 22 seconds left before half time as Lexi Quick picked up her fifth goal of the season with a low shot off a penalty corner.
Corvi cut the Bison's lead in half just 3:46 into the second half. The Raiders picked up a penalty corner early, and Schaefer fired a bullet off the insert which Corvi tipped in on the back post for her third of the season.
Bucknell answered five minutes later as Katie Mannino swatted home the ball off a Sally Olson shot. Evans netted her first goal of the game with 2:46 left in the second half on another corner that snuck past the Bison's stopper but she managed to put home the goal.
Evans led all scorers with four points on a goal and two assists Saturday.
BOTTOM LINE
Bucknell 4, Colgate 1
WIN/LOSS RECORDS
The Bison win their third straight game to improve to 6-7 (2-1 Patriot League) while the Raiders drop to 2-10 (0-4 Patriot League) with the loss.
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Krull crossed the 100-save mark for the third straight season with her 11-save effort on Saturday
-Krull is second in the Patriot League with 106 saves this season while her 8.83 saves per game average is first in the league and fourth in the country
-Krull now has 486 saves as she looks to become just the fifth goaltender in program history with 500 career saves
-Corvi is now tied with MacKillop for first on the team with three goals and ranks second on the roster with seven points
-Schaefer picked up her first assist of the season and has now tied her career-high with three points
FACTS AND FIGURES
-Bucknell had a 23-5 advantage in total shots, including 12-0 in the first half
-The Bison also held the edge in shots on goal, 15-2
-Bucknell tallied 13 penalty corners compared to Colgate's four
UP NEXT
Colgate is home for the final five games of the 2017 season, opening their stretch next Saturday when they host the second-place American Eagles at 11 a.m. at Tyler's Field.
