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THE BASICS
Score: Kent State 2, Ohio 1
Records: Ohio (8-7, 3-2 MAC), Kent State (6-8, 4-1 MAC)
Location: Kent, Ohio (Murphy-Mellis Field)
Short Story: The Ohio field hockey team (8-7, 3-2 MAC) could not overcome an early two-goal deficit, falling to Mid-American Conference archrival Kent State (6-8, 4-1 MAC), 2-1, on Friday (Oct. 23) at Murphy-Mellis Field in Kent, Ohio.

HOW IT HAPPENED
• The loss snapped a three-match winning streak for Ohio.
• Kent State held the edge in shots, 15-13, but the Bobcats led the way in penalty corners, 5-2.
• The Golden Flashes grabbed a quick 1-0 lead with a goal in the second minute as senior Caroline Corthouts took a pass from the right from junior Madison Thompson and fired a shot straight on the net. Corthouts tallied her fourth goal of the year while Thompson logged her second assist.
• Kent State extended its lead to 2-1 five minutes later. Redshirt sophomore Alison Harmatz fired a shot off a pass from the right from sophomore Eilidh Thomson to notch her fourth goal of the season. Thomson's helper was her first of the year.
• Ohio controlled play in the final 35 minutes of action, holding the edge in both shots (8-6) and penalty corners (4-0).
• Freshman Emma Eggleston (Houston, Texas) put the Bobcats on the scoreboard in the 69th minute, tallying her third goal of the year off a deflection from senior Adele Sammons (Upminster, England). Sammons' assist marked her career-high 10th of the season, which leads the team. She is the first Bobcat to achieve double-digit assists in a single season since then-sophomore Jessica Jue recorded 18 and then-junior Laura Mastro added 15 in 2011.
• Sophomore Maria Russell (Hudson, Ohio) and senior Clarissa Leickly (Gahanna, Ohio) tied for the team lead with three shots apiece. Leickly leads Ohio with a career-high 40 shots this year. One of her shots was on goal, bringing her total to a career-high 24, which also leads the team. Russell's season shots total now stands at a career-high 27, which ranks fourth on the team. She also led the Bobcats with two shots on goal, bringing her season total to a career-high 17, which ranks third on the team. Junior Hannah Kingsbury (Louisville, Ky.) and sophomore Rachel Kho (Oakville, Ontario) each added two shots for Ohio. Kingsbury has now tallied a career-high 16 shots this season while Kho has chipped in four.
• Redshirt junior goalkeeper Lina Trucco (Lake Bluff, Ill.) finished with five saves in 70 minutes of work, bringing her season total to a career-high 57 stops.
• Harmatz led the match with four shots -- including a match-high three on goal -- for Kent State. She has now logged 34 shots on the season -- including 21 on goal. Freshman Helen Harper and sophomore Shannon Talbot each added two shots for the Golden Flashes, with each tallying a shot on goal. Harper has now recorded six shots -- including three on goal -- this season while Talbot has added 18 shots, with 11 coming on goal.
• Junior Andrea Rinehart totaled four saves in 70 minutes of work in the cage for Kent State. Her season stops total is now at 75.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
• The 'Cats have scored 38 goals through 15 matches in 2015 after scoring just 20 in 17 matches during the entire '14 season. Ohio has also earned 111 penalty corners this year after garnering 86 all of last year.
• Sammons' career assist total currently stands at 18. She has now notched 93 career shots, with 50 coming on goal.
• Leickly has now logged 52 career shots, with 31 coming on goal.
• Russell has now recorded 36 career shots, with 23 coming on goal.
• Kingsbury has now notched 21 career shots while Kho has now posted six career shots.
• Trucco's career saves total is now up to 66.

QUOTABLE
"Very disappointing day for us. I thought, overall, we did a decent job. Unfortunately, when you give a team a two-goal lead, it's very hard to fight back into the game. Both halves, the last 15 minutes or so, I felt we outplayed them and really started to get going. We were just slow at the start of each half and not playing as efficiently and as well as we needed to." - 11th-year head coach Neil Macmillan on loss

"Good credit goes to the team, because they made some changes on the fly, managed to change our style a little bit to suit what we needed to do. I think that was a very good part of our game today and ended up creating a lot of chances in the second half, and, unfortunately, not finishing. It wasn't quite there today." - Macmillan on adjustments allowing team to stay in the match despite early two-goal deficit

"Really excited to finish as tough as we did. We scored one with a couple of minutes left and then had chances after that as well to make the score level but couldn't quite get to the point of putting the ball into the back of the net. Second half, we did extremely well to hold them to six shots and zero corners and create more chances for us. I thought that was very good defensive play in the second half and really found our way a little with moving the ball forward as well in the second half." - Macmillan on team's second-half success

"Kent's overall tactical arrangement is a fairly simple one, fairly direct down the line. We did a decent job stopping that late first half onward. Unfortunately, it was that that cost us early on and gave them a couple goals, and that's a shame because that was something we had spoken about and watched on film. The ball didn't quite go to the stick when we stepped up and needed to make a play on it. Overall, really pleased with the effort we finished with. I thought the team played really well as the game wore on. We were certainly the better team toward the end, but it all comes down to finishing, and we didn't do the best of job of putting the ball into the back of the net. " - Macmillan on team's game plan against Kent State

UP NEXT
Ohio returns to Pruitt Field on Sunday (Oct. 25) for its final non-conference regular season match of the 2015 season, welcoming No. 16 Northwestern for a 1 p.m. ET contest. Sunday's match against the Wildcats has been designated as Breast Cancer Awareness Day, with fans receiving free pink t-shirts. The Bobcats will also host a youth clinic following the match.

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