Strong First Half Helps Pacific Spoil Field Hockey's Home Debut

Tuesday, September 9

Hanover, N.H.

11:30 AM

Dartmouth College

PACIFIC

Strong First Half Helps Pacific Spoil Field Hockey's Home Debut

9/9/2014 1:08:00 PM | Field Hockey

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. – A flurry of first-half scoring proved to be the storyline Tuesday morning as Pacific spoiled the Dartmouth field hockey team's 2014 home debut at Chase AstroTurf Field, 4-2.

After the Big Green (0-3) opened the scoring in the 18th minute, the Tigers (3-3) responded with three goals in the next four minutes to take the lead that they would never relinquish.

Junior Eliza Becker got the home team on the board at 17:20 of the opening half with a redirected shot. Brooke Van Valkenburg's

Pacific 4, Dartmouth 2
Tuesday, Sept. 9 , 2014
Chase Field • Hanover, N.H.
Attendance: 87 • Weather: High 70s, Sunny

	1st	2nd	Final
Pacific	3	1	4
Dartmouth	2	0	2

Scoring Summary
1st	17:20	DC	Becker/1 (Van Valkenburg)
1st	17:44	UP	Campos/6 (Laskosky)
1st	18:42	UP	Campos/7 (Burns)
1st	21:32	UP	Morrison/1 (Burns)
1st	24:04	DC	Savage/1 (Van Valkenburg)
2nd	60:02	UP	Laskosky/3 (unassisted)

Goaltender Summary		Min	GA	Sv
DC	Meyer (L, 0-3)	70:00	4	5
UP	Pujade (W, 3-3)	70:00	2	5

Statistical Comparison	UP	DC
Shots on Goal	14	14
Penalty Corners	5	9

shot attempt on a corner play changed course after hitting Becker's stick, sending the ball into the top of the net for the 1-0 lead.

That early advantage lasted just 24 seconds as Ali Campos scored on a rush up the left side of the field, holding off the defender and sliding the ball into the far back corner of the goal cage from a sliding position.

In an eerily similar play, Campos gave her team the 2-1 lead 58 seconds later on the opposite side of the turf, once again falling to the ground as she followed through on her shot attempt.

Kyleigh Morrison's marker just shy of three minutes after Campos' second proved to be the eventual winner as she corralled a rebound and deposited it off the backboard of the cage, giving the visitors a two-goal spread.

Senior Ali Savage notched her first goal of the season and the 38th of her career in the 25th minute of playing, capping the scoring in a stanza dominated by offensive chances and pulling her team to within one. Savage's redirect of another long ball from Van Valkenburg gave the Australian native her 95th career point, five shy of becoming the fourth player in program history to reach the century mark for scoring in a career.

Both teams played stronger defensively in the second frame as Nicole Laskosky's takeaway and point-blank goal in the 61st minute was the only score of the period and was the insurance marker Pacific needed to hold on for its third win of the season — all in Hanover.

Goalkeeper Ellen Meyer turned aside five shots in the game, matching her counterpart in the Tigers' Laura Pujade at the other end of the field.

Both teams managed 14 total shots in the game, while the Big Green held a 9-5 advantage in corner plays.

Dartmouth returns to action on Friday as it takes on Northeastern in Boston at 5 p.m.