THE BASICS

Score: No. 7 Louisville 2, Ohio 0

Records: Ohio (3-9), No. 7 Louisville (12-4)

Location: Pruitt Field - Athens, Ohio

Short Story: Senior goalkeeper Brittany Walker (Elizabethtown, Pa.) held No. 7-ranked Louisville scoreless through the first 35 minutes of play with two saves, but the Ohio field hockey team (3-9) ultimately fell, 2-0, on Tuesday (Oct. 21) at Pruitt Field.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Louisville held the advantage in shots (8-3) and corners (7-1). Ohio was outshot, 4-0, in the first half of the match but kept Louisville off the scoreboard in the opening 35 minutes of play.

• Walker recorded three saves in 70 minutes, bringing her season total to 50 and her career total to 199. She has tallied at least 50 saves in each of the last three seasons. 

• Redshirt senior Lauryl Desch (Charlottesville, Va.), senior Caelyn Hartley (Escondido, Calif.) and freshman Rachel Kho (Oakville, Ontario) accounted for Ohio's three shots, with Kho providing the Bobcats' lone shot on goal in the 44th minute. Desch has now accounted for a team-high 25 shots in 2014.  

• After producing three corner chances in the first half and coming away with no goals, the Cardinals broke through in the 37th minute following another corner opportunity as senior back Alyssa Voelmle found the back of the cage for her team-leading ninth goal of the season off a deflection from junior midfielder Elisa Garcia to give Louisville a 1-0 edge.  

• Louisville redshirt junior goalkeeper Sydney King made her lone save of the contest on Kho's attempt to keep the Bobcats from evening the score, and the Cardinals made it a two-goal affair 21 minutes later. Freshman forward Nicole Woods scored her third goal of the season, this one following another corner chance and another deflection off of Garcia, who finished the match with two assists to up her season total to a team-high nine.

• Voelmle and sophomore forward Shannon Sloss led the match with two shots, with both attempts by Sloss coming on goal.

QUOTABLE

"We just gained a ton of confidence. They're a top-five, top-10 team, and we competed with them the entire game, only letting up two goals. We're just going to take that confidence, take that aggression and tear through the MAC now." - Senior Caelyn Hartley

UP NEXT

Ohio returns to league play on Saturday (Oct. 25) with a trip to Mount Pleasant, Mich., for a showdown with MAC leader Central Michigan in its final road match of the 2014 regular season. The contest is slated to begin at 1 p.m. ET at the CMU Field Hockey Complex.

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