COLLEGEVILLE, Pa.- The fourth-seed Franklin & Marshall field hockey team (10-9, 6-4) saw their Centennial Conference Tournament run come to a close in a 3-2 double-overtime loss at second-seed #16 Ursinus on Thursday night.

Caitlin Hoover and Hannah Fitzgerald were the goalscorers for the Diplomats who were ahead 2-1 as late as the fourth quarter. 

Each team managed a goal apiece in the first five minutes of play. Ursinus got on the board first via a close-range shot that came from dispossessing F&M in their defensive third. Hoover found a leveling goal two minutes later following an initial save from the Bears' goalkeeper, putting the ball to the goalkeeper's right from around the penalty spot. 

Ursinus managed a couple of chances to start the second quarter, forcing a save from Meghan Dole and two blocked shots from her defenders. Fitzgerald took the lead for F&M in the 29th minute. Annie Malatesta started the sequence by playing a ball through the Ursinus lines. Fitzgerald then beat a defender and drove into space. She put a backhanded shot that went through the goalkeeper's legs with help from a decoy deflection from Ava Lofgren in front of goal. This gave F&M a 2-1 lead through half an hour.

There was one shot in the third period overall, as Dole saved a shot that deflected off an F&M player in a penalty corner sequence. 

Dole saved a pacey shot to start the fourth quarter, while Maya Rorick and Hoover each had shots saved off a penalty corner. Ursinus tied the game in the 51st minute following an initial save from Hoover. The shot put over Dole, and Malatesta got a stick to the ball at the goal line but was unable to tip the ball over or wide. Dole made one more save in regulation on a close-range shot to send the game to overtime.

Abby D'Anjolell registered the opening shot four minutes into the first period of seven vs. seven action. She lofted her shot over the Ursinus goalkeeper, but the ball landed on top of the cage. Malatesta thwarted the Bears first chance with a blocked shot. Hoover then generated a pair of chances. The first was a high-paced shot at the goalkeeper, while she beat two defenders on a counter attacking chance and missed wide and left one-on-one with the goalkeeper on the second chance.

Dole saved the first shot of the second overtime period, while Rorick's opening shot on a penalty corner was blocked by the Bears' defense. Later, a blocked Fitzgerald shot spurred a Ursinus counter that was stopped by Malatesta blocking the shot. Despite the effort from the Diplomats' Ursinus found a game-winning goal in the 80th minute by working in a low cross from the right side and beating Dole to her left from close range.

Dole totaled six saves. Across the 80 minutes, Ursinus outshot F&M 18-13 and generated nine penalty corners against four from the Diplomats.