SUNY Oneonta field hockey plays spoilers as they upend the #18 preseason coaches ranked University of Rochester 4-3 today on All College Field.
Kelcy Forbragd (Camden/Camden), who leads the team in goals, scored twice today with the first coming 2:29 into the game. It all began with when
Andrea Day (Greene/Greene) took the initial shot . Yellow Jackets goalie, Tara Lamberti, made the save but Forbragd picked up the loose ball and fired it into the back of the goal.
Rochester (3-1) responded well as they scored in the 20th minute off a penalty corner. Belle Hoagland passed the ball to Lindsey Randall at the top of the striking circle. Randall blasted a shot past Red Dragon's goalie,
Tess Tracy (Liverpool/Liverpool), to tie the game at 1 apiece.
Oneonta (4-0) would take a 2-1 lead into the intermission as Forbragd was back at it again.
Ashley Morgan (Putnam Valley/Putnam Valley) manuevered into the box with some nifty possession and dropped the pass off between her legs to Forbragd behind her. Forbragd touched the pass into the goal at the back post.
Day would open the scoring twenty minutes into play of the second half. Morgan started it by ripping a shot that hit the near post and ricocheted to Day at the back post, who tucked it in the back side to give Oneonta a 3-1 lead.
After a timeout by Rochester, they put the pressure on and pulled a goal back at the 68:43 mark. Randall took the penalty corner pass for Hoagland and once again put it past Tracy to cut the lead to 3-2.
Less than one minute later,
Chelsea Remling (Mahopac/Lakeland) gave the Red Dragons a two goal lead as she picked off a pass inside the circle and fired it past the Rochester goalie, Madison Wagner.
Rochster would score one last goal as the game ended. Randall hit a shot outside the circle that struck an Oneonta stick and went in for an own goal to end the game at 4-3 in favor of the Red Dragons.
Oneonta outshot the Yellow Jackets 16-8 and held an 8-7 advantage in penalty corners.
Tracy made four saves to earn her second victory of the season as her counterparts, Lamberti and Wagner, combined for five saves.
Oneonta will be in action again at home when they take on William Smith next Saturday, September 14 for a 1:00 p.m. start.
