THE BASICS

Score: Kent State 4, Ohio 3

Records: Ohio (2-8, 1-2 MAC), Kent State (5-7, 2-0 MAC)

Location: Murphy-Mellis Field â€" Kent, Ohio

Short Story: The Ohio field hockey team (2-8, 1-2 MAC) fell to Mid-American Conference rival Kent State (5-7, 2-0), 4-3, on Saturday (Oct. 11) at Murphy-Mellis Field. 

 

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Bobcats won the corner battle, 9-3, but the Golden Flashes outshot Ohio, 23-9. Kent State recorded 13 shots on goal while the 'Cats tallied seven.

• Senior Lauryl Desch (Charlottesville, Va.) recorded her first two goals of the 2014 season and led the Bobcats with six shots -- including five on goal.  

• Senior Brittany Walker (Elizabethtown, Pa.) piled up a season-high nine saves in 70 minutes of work.

• The Bobcats broke through in the third minute when senior Ashley Cureton (Henrico, Va.) scored her first goal of the season off a deflection courtesy of an assist by sophomore Hannah Kingsbury (Louisville, Ky.) -- her first of the year.

• Kent State answered back with senior midfielder Julia Hofmann's ninth goal of 2014 in the 14th minute, capitalizing on a corner opportunity thanks to assists by junior forward/midfielder Caroline Corthouts and junior back Alayna Harris. Corthouts tallied her third helper of the year while Harris posted her fifth.

• Freshman midfielder/back Ines Delpech gave the Flashes a 2-1 lead in the 18th minute, dribbling to the center of the net and tallying her fourth goal of the year.

• The 'Cats pulled even at two-all in the 32nd minute when Desch posted her first goal of the season off assists from senior Caelyn Hartley (Escondido, Calif.) and junior Adele Sammons (Upminster, England). 

• Kent State jumped back in front, 3-2, in the first minute courtesy of senior forward Hannah Faulkner's ninth goal of 2014, taking an assist from Hofmann's seventh assist of the season and capitalizing. 

• The Golden Flashes made it a two-goal match in the 62nd minute when sophomore forward Krysti Lober scored her first goal of the year off sophomore midfielder/forward Madison Thompson's fifth assist.

 â€¢ Desch cut Kent State's lead to 4-3 with her second goal in the 65th minute, but unfortunately for Ohio, that's as far as the comeback bid got. Hartley and Sammons were each credited with assists again on Desch's goal. Hartley brought her team-leading assist total to three posted while Sammons upped her assist total to two.  

• Kent State redshirt freshman forward Alison Harmatz led the match with seven shots -- including five on goal. Faulker tallied three shots, while Hofmann, Delpech, Thompson and freshman midfielder Silvia Figa Malgosa each added two. All three of Faulkner's shots came on goal.

 

QUOTABLE

"We were right in it at the end. We had a great goal from Lauryl again off the corner with just under five minutes to go. We had some pressure, had some opportunities after that, but, unfortunately, we weren't able to tie it up. We put ourselves in too much of a hole to come back from but a much better performance overall. It's good to know we're heading in the right direction" - 10th-year head coach Neil Macmillan 

 

UP NEXT

The Bobcats return to the friendly confines of Pruitt Field next Sunday (Oct. 19), hosting Ball State in a 1 p.m. ET contest.

 

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