HAMILTON – A pair of Colgate field hockey first-years tallied three-point games for the Raiders Sunday afternoon as the Raiders fell to the Saint Francis Red flash, 6-2, at Tyler's Field.
Anne Marijn Bruijn (Naarden, Netherlands) and
Meghan Minturn (Winnetka, Illinois) each picked up three points with a goal and an assist for both Colgate goals in the loss.
Colgate held a pair of one-goal leads throughout the game but Saint Francis responded with quick goals of their own before eventually the Red Flash scored the final five goals of the game.
Bruijn gave the Raiders a 1-0 lead just over three minutes into the game as Minturn deflected a pass from
Michaela Corvi (Newburyport, Massachusetts) to Bruijn wide open on the back door for the goal.
Kyra Castano picked up the first Red Flash goal of the game as part of a four-point game to tie the game, 1-1, with 25:20 left in the first half. The Raiders turned the ball over on their own end line and Abby Romig fired a centering feed to Castano who poked the ball past a charging
Maria Krull (Leicester, Massachusetts).
Early in the second half, Minturn got a goal of her own after Bruijn deflected a pass over Saint Francis goalkeeper Elizabeth Dyer's leg and Minturn controlled the ball before reversing it home.
The lead didn't last long as Saint Francis' Brea Seabrook scored her first of three consecutive goals off penalty corners to tie the game before eventually taking it for good. Seabrook's hat trick was the first the Raiders had allowed all season.
Brianna Govia and Taylor Nesmith finished off the scoring in the final five minutes of the game to close out the scoring.
BOTTOM LINE
Saint Francis 6, Colgate 2
WIN/LOSS RECORD
The Red Flash improve to 4-2 this season with their third straight win while the Raiders drop to 2-4 with the loss.
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Colgate closed out a stretch of five games in 10 days that began on Sept. 1, going 2-3 during the stretch with a pair of double overtime games
-Bruijn is the fourth different Raider to score her first career goal this season joining Corvi, Minturn and
Iona MacKillop (Glasgow, Scotland)
-Minturn and Bruijn are the second and third Raiders to record a three-point game this season
-Minturn is now tied with MacKillop for the team lead with two goals and is one point behind MacKillop with five this season
-Krull picked up five saves in the game to pull within five saves of tying Sara Corcoran '03 for the sixth most saves in program history
FACTS AND FIGURES
-Saint Francis finished with a 13-9 shot advantage despite Colgate's 6-1 edge in the first half
-The Red Flash also had an 11-5 advantage in shots on goal
-Saint Francis led Colgate with a 6-2 edge in penalty corners, with both of Raiders coming in the first half, while all six for the Red Flash came in the second half.
FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach April Cornell
"We knew Saint Francis' potential and we needed to play a full 70-minute game against them. There were times where instead of being mentally tough, we kind of let the game get controlled by Saint Francis instead of taking back control of our game…especially after scoring a goal then allowing them to come back and get a defensive corner that quickly on us."
"It was a really intense schedule the last week but it was good for us because there is a lot that we saw in our development and our game. Today was a tough game for us; I think mentally the fatigue set in more than anything. We are a fit team and we're able to play with anybody at anytime, we showed that in the double overtime game with Lock Haven but it's the mental fatigue that wears down once you start to get tired in the second half."
UP NEXT
Colgate will have the week off from game action before opening up Patriot League play on Saturday with a trip to Easton, Pennsylvania, to face the Lafayette Leopards at Rappolt Field. Game time is set for 12:05 p.m.
