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THE BASICS
Score: Missouri State 2, Ohio 0
Records: Ohio (5-6, 1-1 MAC), Missouri State (4-9, 1-1 MAC)
Location: Springfield, Mo. (Betty & Bobby Allison North Stadium)
Short Story: The Ohio field hockey team (5-6, 1-1 MAC) was saddled with a 2-0 loss at the hands of Mid-American Conference foe Missouri State (4-9, 1-1 MAC) on Friday (Oct. 9) at Betty & Bobby Allison North Stadium in Springfield, Mo.

HOW IT HAPPENED
• The Bobcats won the statistical battle, leading in shots (10-6) and penalty corners (9-6) but could not find the back of the cage for the first time in 2015.
• The Bears grabbed a 1-0 lead in the 25th minute when senior forward Sydney Richelieu tallied her first goal of the season, taking a feed from sophomore forward Andrea Soler Codina and scoring on breakaway up field. Soler Codina's assist marked her first of the year.
• Missouri State extended its lead to two goals in the 53rd minute as Richeliu recorded her second goal of the match, scoring on a penalty corner opportunity as she tipped the ball in off a pass from senior midfielder Charlie Redhead, who posted her second helper of the season.
• Richeliu led Missouri State with three shots.
• Freshman goalkeeper Feli Heinzel notched the shutout for the Bears, totaling three saves in 70 minutes of work.
• Senior Clarissa Leickly (Gahanna, Ohio) led the Bobcats with three shots -- including one on goal. She leads the Bobcats with 29 shots and 18 shots on goal in 2015.
• Senior Adele Sammons (Upminster, England) and sophomore Maria Russell (Hudson, Ohio) each posted two shots for Ohio, with one of Russell's coming on goal. Sammons ranks second on the team with 27 shots while Russell ranks fourth on the squad with 18 shots and third with 11 shots on goal.
• Redshirt junior goalkeeper Lina Trucco (Lake Bluff, Ill.) finished with four saves in 70 minutes in the cage for the 'Cats. Her season saves total now stands at 45.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
• Leickly has now posted 41 career shots -- including 24 on goal.
• Sammons' career shots total now stands at 82.
• Russell has now recorded 27 career shots -- including 17 on goal.
• Trucco's career saves total is now up to 54.

QUOTABLE
"Very disappointing day today. The team didn't show the desire and the fight to finish the game off. We had, again, the better of the opportunity. We created more shots and corners than Missouri State, and we, unfortunately, let them finish their opportunities off better than we took our opportunities ourselves. Neither team played a particularly good brand of hockey today. It wasn't certainly the game that we wanted to play. " - 11th-year head coach Neil Macmillan on the loss

"We did a good job creating some opportunities for us. We got nine corners pretty well spread, but our execution on them certainly wasn't up to the level we expect. I think we've got to make sure that as a team we show a greater desire to finish every slight chance and opportunity that we have because we wasted too many today to be expecting to win a MAC game." - 11th-year head coach Neil Macmillan on missed opportunities

UP NEXT
Ohio steps out of conference play to host Michigan State on Sunday (Oct. 11) at 1 p.m. ET at Pruitt Field. The program will celebrate alumni weekend, and a pregame student tailgate will be held.

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