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THE BASICS
Score: Miami 3, Ohio 0
Records: Ohio (8-9, 3-3 MAC), Miami (11-7, 5-1 MAC)
Location: Athens, Ohio (Pruitt Field)
Short Story: The Ohio field hockey team (8-9, 3-3 MAC) suffered a 3-0 Senior Day setback to Mid-American Conference archrival Miami (11-7, 5-1 MAC) in a 'Battle of the Bricks' match on Saturday (Oct. 31) at Pruitt Field.

HOW IT HAPPENED
• The penalty corner count was even at eight-all, but the RedHawks led the Bobcats in shots, 17-10.
• The Bobcats earned three penalty corner chances in the first five minutes of play but could not produce a goal.
• The RedHawks took advantage of their first penalty corner opportunity of the day as senior midfielder Bea Dechant found the back of the net in the 17th minute for her team-leading 11th goal of the year, firing a shot from the top of the 'D' after assists from junior midfielder/forward Carla Romagosa and sophomore midfielder/back Megan Paul. Romagosa notched her eighth helper of the year while Paul contributed her second assist of the season.
• Miami extended its lead to 2-0 in the 30th minute when freshman midfielder/forward Paula Portugal scored on a breakaway chance from the left side of the cage.
• Portugal scored again in the 51st minute on another penalty corner chance for the RedHawks, tipping in a feed from Dechant for her second goal of the match and 10th of the season. The assist by Dechant marked her seventh helper of the year.
• Dechant led the match with five shots -- including two on goal. Her season total now stands at a team-high 77 shots, with a team-high 48 coming on goal.
• Sophomore back/midfielder Marlona Heras added four shots, with three coming on goal. She’s now tallied 30 shots this season, with 15 coming on goal.
• Portugal posted two shots on goal, bringing her season total to 47 shots -- including 34 on goal.
• Junior midfielder/forward Geagy Pritchard and Romagosa each recorded two shots. Both of Pritchard’s came on goal. She has now logged 34 shots this season, with 26 coming on goal. One of Romagosa’s shots came on goal. She’s now totaled 13 shots this year, with six coming on goal.
• Senior Clarissa Leickly (Gahanna, Ohio) led Ohio with with five shots -- including three on goal. She has logged a career-high 47 shots in 2015, with 28 coming on goal -- both of which lead the team.
• Redshirt junior goalkeeper Lina Trucco (Lake Bluff, Ill.) made seven saves in 70 minutes of work in the cage for the Bobcats, upping her season total to a career-high 76.
• Junior goalkeeper Alyssa Xavier piled up seven saves in a 70-minute shutout effort for Miami. Her season total now stands at 86 stops.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
• The Bobcats honored the careers of Leickly and Adele Sammons (Upminster, England) in a Senior Day ceremony prior to the match.
• Leickly has now logged 59 career shots, with 35 coming on goal.
• Trucco's career saves total is now up to 85.

QUOTABLE
"They did a good job of defending us. I thought they did well getting numbers behind the ball, so we weren’t able to combine and pass the ball together, which is really what we wanted to try and do. It resulted in us not being able to get a flow going with our forwards." -- 11th-year head coach Neil Macmillan

"The first 10 minutes, we came out really hard, and that’s what we wanted to do. Unfortunately, we got caught in the back a few times. We relaxed a bit more when we found out we were going to get in the 'D' and get opportunities to score. I think the fact that we relaxed and let them come at us let us down today." -- Senior Adele Sammons

UP NEXT
The 2015 MAC Championship will be held Nov. 6-7 in Mount Pleasant, Mich. Tournament seeding will be announced at a later time. Semifinals matchups are set for 11:30 a.m. ET and 2 p.m. ET on Friday (Nov. 6).

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