Senior All-American Jackie Ladino scored her 20th career goal to bring Stonehill back within a goal today at East Stroudsburg. |
#7 East Stroudsburg Holds Off #8 Stonehill, 3-2
Warriors score first three
goals, hold off furious Skyhawks rally
for season-opening win
EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. (August 29, 2009) - East Stroudsburg University, ranked seventh in the Kookaburra/National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFCHA) Division II preseason poll rode an early 3-0 lead to victory over 8th-ranked Stonehill College in non-conference field hockey action at Whitenight Field this afternoon.
Junior Caitlin Brownley (Bilgerville, Pa./Bilgerville) scored a pair of goals for East Stroudsburg who opened a 3-0 lead in the opening 27 minutes of the game and held on the rest of the way. Classmate Joanna Reckley (Temple, Pa./Muhlenberg) also netted a goal for the Warriors.
Sophomore goalkeeper Maureen Ordnung (Honesdale, Pa./Honesdale) shined in just her second collegiate contest for East Stroudsburg, making 14 saves (nine second half) to preserve the victory as Stonehill posted a remarkable 27-8 advantage in shots for the game. Junior Courtney Osier (South Dennis, Mass./Dennis-Yarmouth) finished with five stops in the cage for the Skyhawks.
Stonehill got goals from senior All-American Jackie Ladino (North Dartmouth, Mass./Dartmouth) and junior Courtney Foley (Wakefield, Mass./Wakefield Memorial).
Trailing by three, Stonehill mounted a comeback effort, beginning with Foley's goal as time expired in the opening half off a penalty corner. Ladino scored her 20th career goal 6:11 into the second half off a feed from junior Michaela Deasy (North Falmouth, Mass./Falmouth). However, Ordnung kept the Skyhawks off the scoreboard from there as East Stroudsburg held on for the win.
Stonehill (0-1, 0-0 NE-10) is right back in action tomorrow when it visits top-ranked and defending NCAA Division II National Champions Bloomsburg University at noon. East Stroudsburg (1-0, 0-0 PSAC) hosts Merrimack College tomorrow at 1 p.m.
