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THE BASICS
Score: Ohio 3, VCU 2
Records: Ohio (2-2), VCU (1-2)
Location: Richmond, Va. (Cary Street Field)
Short Story: Senior Clarissa Leickly (Gahanna, Ohio), junior Hannah Kingsbury (Louisville, Ky.) and sophomore Maria Russell (Hudson, Ohio) each tallied goals to push the Ohio field hockey team (2-2) to a 3-2 victory at VCU (1-2) on Sunday (Sept. 6) at Cary Street Field in Richmond, Va.

HOW IT HAPPENED
• The Bobcats won the statistical battle, leading the match in shots (10-8) and corner chances (5-3).
• Ohio got on the board first in the sixth minute as Leickly on a corner opportunity, using assists from senior Adele Sammons (Upminster, England) and junior Kristen Buchanan (San Diego, Calif.).
• The Rams retaliated in the 16th minute, tying the contest at one-all thanks to a goal off of a corner by freshman forward Emily McNamara. Sophomore midfielder Spencer Tossone and sophomore defender Natalie Bohmke provided assists on the play.
• The squads entered halftime deadlocked at one-all, but Kingsbury broke the stalemate in the 38th minute, taking an assist from Russell and cashing in on a cross from 15 yards out to give the Bobcats a 2-1 lead.
• Ohio's lead swelled to 3-1 in the 42nd minute as Kingsbury and Russell reversed roles. Russell took a feed from Kingsbury and found the back of the net on a cross in front of the cage.
• VCU cut Ohio's lead to one goal in the 60th minute as sophomore forward Jamee Albright scored on a rebound off of a save. Junior midfielder/forward Krystal Mayers assisted on the goal.
• The Rams took one last crack at tying the match in the 70th minute on a shot by graduate midfielder Taleah Scott, but redshirt junior goalkeeper Lina Trucco (Lake Bluff, Ill.) came up with her final save of the match to seal the win for Ohio. 
• Sophomore Elena Curley (Louisville, Ky.) led the match with four shots for the Bobcats -- including one on goal. She is tied for the team lead with six on the season.
• Leickly and Russell, who are tied with Curley for the team lead in shots this year, both finished with two shots. Russell's goal marked her team-high third of the season while her helper marked her first assist of the year. She leads the Bobcats with seven points in 2015. Leickly notched her second goal of the season. 
• Kingsbury tallied her first goal and first assist of the year.
• Sammons has piled up a team-high four assists this season.
• Trucco finished with a match-high four saves in 70 minutes of work. Her season total now stands at 17 stops.
• Buchanan posted her first assist of the year.
• McNamara led VCU with shots -- including two on goal. 
• Mayers and junior forward Kaylee Maunz joined Albright and Scott in recording shots on goal for the Rams.
• VCU senior goalkeeper Kendall Clifton surrendered three goals and made one save in 70 minutes.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
• Ohio is now 4-1 (.800) all-time against VCU.
• The victory over the Rams snapped a two-match losing skid for the Bobcats.
• Ohio has scored nine goals in four matches in 2015. The Bobcats scored just four goals in their first four matches in 2014.
• Leickly increaded her career goal total to three.
• Russell has now tallied five career goals. Her three goals in 2015 are a career high. Her assist on Kinsbury's goal marked her first career helper.
• Kingsbury now has two career goals and two career assists to her credit.
• Sammons increased her career assist total to 11. Her four assists in 2015 match her 2014 total for a career high.
• Buchanan's assist marked the second of her career.
• Trucco's career saves total is up to 26.

QUOTABLE
"That's all credit to the team. They put themselves in the right frame of mind right from the start. We started quickly. To score an early goal like that and set ourselves on the right track was a perfect start." - 11th-year head coach Neil Macmillan

"Lina was definitely well-composed back there and responded well. The defense did a great job in front of her. Her main role was an organizational one, but she still made a number of key saves." - Macmillan

"The first goal was Clarissa on a straight strike off of a corner. It was well-executed. She buried it top of the boards on the left side. The second goal was a great feed from Maria and a really controlled shot from Hannah off a little bit of a bouncing ball. The other one was Hannah setting Maria up the same way. A good, solid finish by Maria." - Macmillan

"We played really high-tempo, high-energy at the start of the second half, and it led to two good goals. When they scored, we responded really, really well. We were just a really, really good offensive team today." - Macmillan

"After we went down to William & Mary (on Friday), we realized our mistakes. We did an exercise on what fired us up and got us going for a game, and we used that and each other to make sure that, even if we did go down today, we came back and stayed in the play and didn't just give up on the ball." - Junior Hannah Kingsbury

"We tried today to be a lot more aggressive and just take a shot if we had one. We played a game yesterday in practice called 'death ball', where they just throw the balls in and you're kind of going crazy and you just hit the ball as hard as you can at the cage. That was our goal today As soon as we got the ball, we were just putting it on the keeper and hoping to get something that goes in the back of the net." - Kingsbury

"We've really been focusing on we're in the circle, our sticks are down, we're low and we're hungry. It's all about finding that hunger to get the ball and to finish. Another big part of that we've been working on is our forward pressing and making sure that we're the first line of defense and that we're coming up with the ball more often on the forward line so that we can really go forward and get some options up in their 25." -  Kingsbury

UP NEXT
Ohio will play its home opener at Pruitt Field on Friday (Sept. 11) at 5:30 p.m. ET and finish out the weekend against Appalachian State in Athens on Sunday (Sept. 13) at 1 p.m. ET

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