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YORK, Pa. - The Franklin & Marshall and York field hockey
teams combined for 11 goals with the Spartans getting the game
winner with 6:39 left to play to edge the Diplomats 6-5 in
non-conference action on Wednesday.
York scored three unanswered goals to take a 5-4 lead and Lauren
Wendth evened the score for the second time in the 60th
minute, before Allison Roush netted the game winner three minutes
later to help the Spartans snap a two-game losing streak. The six
goals is the most scored by York in the last two years.
Roush and Megan Spangler each tallied two goals for the Spartans
(7-8), while April McFarland added a goal and an assist in the win.
In the back, Julie Reahl made two defensive saves and Claire
Rekitzke stopped six shots in the cage.
Kimmy Fisher recorded her first two-goal game, scoring both in a
four-minute span to give the Diplomats (4-7) the 2-0 early in the
opening stanza. Her first goal of the day came off a rebounded shot
taken by Paulette Cutruzzula just 1:12 into the contest and the
second was a direct shot from the top of the circle off a foul to
make it 2-0.
Spangler made it 2-all with back-to-back goals to end the half.
F&M mirrored the beginning of the second half, scoring two
straight goals in a four-minute span to regain the lead at 4-2 with
21:54 left to play. Stolle Singleton scored off a rebound that came
from a defensive save, and Eileen O'Reilly scooped up a loose ball
and put it past a prone Rekitke.
York responded with three goals in two minutes, four seconds to
take its first lead of the day at 5-4. Casey Lawrence scored,
before Roush assisted McFarland and then she returned the favor to
turn the score around.
Mollie Ruben found Wendth in the box for her second goal of the
season in the 60th minute, but Roush took it upon
herself to lead the Spartans to their seventh win by dribbling into
the circle and scoring to the right-hand side for the game winner.
York not only scored the most goals on F&M this season, but
they also fired off a team-high 19 penalty corners to the Diplomats
six. Jen Burdo faced 26 shots and made nine saves.
F&M returns to action on Friday at Ursinus. Game time is 7
p.m.
