THE BASICS
2015 Mid-American Conference Championship Semifinals
Score: No. 1 Kent State 2, No. 4 Ohio 1
Records: Ohio (8-10), Kent State (10-8)
Location: Mount Pleasant, Mich. (CMU Field Hockey Complex)
Short Story: The No. 4-seeded Ohio field hockey team (8-10) saw its 2015 season end with a 2-1 loss to top-seeded Kent State (10-8) on Friday (Nov. 6) in the 2015 Mid-American Conference Championship semifinals at the CMU Field Hockey Complex in Mount Pleasant, Mich.

HOW IT HAPPENED
• The Golden Flashes led the match in both shots (14-6) and penalty corners (9-5).
• The Bobcats earned three penalty corner chances in the first five minutes of play but could not produce a goal.
• Kent State jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the 12th mintue when sophomore midfielder Silvia Figa Malgosa took a feed from sophomore midfielder Ines Delpech near the top of the circle and scored her fourth goal of the season from the left wing. Delpech provdided her third assist of the year.
• The Bobcats retaliated in the 39th minute, evening the match at one-all as sophomore Rachel Kho (Oakville, Ontario) scored the second of her career and season on a re-direct after a shot from sophomore Elena Curley (Louisville, Ky.). Curley's assist marked her fourth of the season.
• The Golden Flashes scored the match winner in the 65th minute, however, when redshirt sophomore Alison Harmatz scored her sixth of the year off an assist from sophomore Shannon Talbot -- her third helper of the season.
• Kho finished with two shots on goal for Ohio. She wrapped up the 2015 season with six shots -- including three on goal.
• Senior Clarissa Leickly (Gahanna, Ohio) also notched two shots on goal for the Bobcats. The 2015 Second Team All-MAC selection ended the year with a career-high 49 shots to lead the team -- including a career-high 30 shots on goal to pace the squad.
• Redshirt junior goalkeeper Lina Trucco (Lake Bluff, Ill.) finished with five saves in 70 minutes of work in the cage for Ohio. She ended the season with a career-high 81 saves.
• Junior forward Madison Thompson recorded a match-high five shots -- including a match-high three on goal for Kent State. She upped her season totals to 47 shots -- including 31 shots on goal.
• Harmatz and Figa Malgosa each finished with two shots for the Golden Flashes -- including one on goal for each. Hamatz has posted 44 shots -- including 26 on goal -- this year while Figa Malgosa has added 12 shots with 10 coming on goal. Delpech also finished with two shots, bringing her season total to 64.
• Junior goalkeeper Andrea Rinehart collected four saves in 70 minutes in the cage for Kent State, raising her season stops total to 94.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
• Ohio is now 32-26 (.552) in the league tournament.
• Kho has now recorded 16 career shots, with 11 coming on goal.
• Leickly finished her career with 61 career shots, with 37 coming on goal.
• Trucco's career saves total is now up to 90.

QUOTABLE
"It was a tough one today. Very disappointed with how it went. I thought we did a great job with executing the game plan. We played well both halves of the game. We just gave away too many chances at the end. That was our downfall. We played exceptionally well to come back in the second half. " -- 11th-year head coach Neil Macmillan on the loss

"Both had excellent seasons. I think it was really exciting to see Clarissa get recognition from the other coaches within the MAC. Adele exhibited great skill this season and proved to be one of the top players in the conference this year. Both of them are going to be really missed moving forward. They both did a lot over their four years. It would have been nice to send them out of the right side of the result, but they fought hard." -- Macmillan on the impact of departing seniors Clarissa Leickly and Adele Sammons

"One of the exciting things going into next year is that we've got a great depth of talent here and an offseason to develop that. Excited for the future, and we have the offseason to develop and work on our skill and overall gameplay and fitness. Those are the things that are going to help us over the next season " -- Macmillan on the impact of departing seniors Clarissa Leickly and Adele Sammons

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