Virginia Wesleyan College Athletics issued the following announcement on Oct. 13
The Virginia Wesleyan University field hockey team defeated the Royals of Eastern Mennonite University 4-3 on Wednesday afternoon at Birdsong Field in Virginia Beach, VA. All four Marlin goals were scored by different players.
GAME INFORMATION
Score: Virginia Wesleyan 4 - Eastern Mennonite 3
Records: Virginia Wesleyan 3-7, 1-3 | Eastern Mennonite 7-6, 0-3
Location: Birdsong Field | Virginia Beach, VA
FIRST HALF
- The Marlins opened up the first quarter strong scoring three of their four goals in the opening 15 minutes.
- Shannon Gaffney put the ball in the back of the cage first off a pass from Emma Lankford in the sixth minute.
- A little over three minutes later the Marlins found goal number two as Catherine Dozier scored off a pass from Raquel Kelly.
- With only 28 seconds left in the opening quarter the Marlins put in a third goal as Lauren Hedspeth scored off the pass from Stephanie Hoke.
- Both teams went scoreless through the second quarter as VWU heading into the halftime break leading 3-0.
- Eastern Mennonite found some fire coming out of the halftime break scoring a pair of goals in the third quarter.
- The Royals knotted the score at three goals all in the 53rd minute in the fourth quarter.
- The Marlins were rewarded a penalty stroke with 6:43 remaining on the game clock and Lexie Thomas connected with the back right corner to give the VWU the 4-3 lead.
- Virginia Wesleyan managed to fend off Eastern Mennonite the remainder of the match to pick up their first ODAC win.
- Raquel Kelly and Lauren Hedspeth both recorded four shots to lead the Marlins.
- Maura Bridges played all 60 minutes picking up the win (W: 1-3, 1-3) making four saves in the match while also giving up three goals.
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