WILKES-BARRE, PA. -- The SUNY Oneonta field hockey team's offense poured it on Wilkes University early and gained a 4-1 lead after the first period en route to a 5-2 win on the road, Wednesday evening. Sophomore
Alexandra Howell (Holtsville, N.Y./Sachem East) finished with a goal and an assist and graduate student
Erin Clark (Somers, N.Y./Somers) recorded two assists. Five different players recorded a goal for the Red Dragons as the team improved to 4-2 on the season and the Colonels dropped to 2-5.
Senior
Caitlyn Caulfield (Albany, N.Y./Guilderland) lit up the board first with her second goal of the season on a penalty stroke opportunity at 2:02. A few minutes later, sophomore
Abigail Draper (Remsen, NY/Holland Patent) took the penalty corner and passed it to freshman
Nora Trimarchi (South Glens Falls, N.Y.) who took the shot and scored her first collegiate goal at 5:32. Wilkes put pressure on junior
Maura Leib (East Syracuse, N.Y./East Syracuse Minoa) with a few shots on goal halfway through the first period, but Leib made the first round of saves. The Colonels finally got on the board at 11:32 with a shot from Morgan Hermanofski off a pass from Bridget Rosenfeld.
Clark helped her teammates score two goals in the final three minutes of the first period. She found Howell at 12:13 for Howell's team-high fifth goal of the season, then, at 14:29, Clark received the ball out of a penalty corner and dished it to junior
Molly Miller (Clifton Park, N.Y./Shenendehowa) for her third goal of the season. Wilkes cut the lead to two at 21:03 when Hermanofski passed to Kellie Scott for the score.
Oneonta made it the final 5-2 score at 32:39 when Howell sent a cross pass from the left side of the shooting circle to freshman
Skyler Van Wormer (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) for the goal. The goal was Van Wormer's third of the season. The Red Dragons had multiple chances to extend the lead, however the Colonels recorded seven saves, including one defensive save from Emma Dengler, and kept it a three-goal game heading into the fourth.
Leib saved a couple of shots in the final period as Oneonta held onto the win, she finished with six overall. Olivia Wickel recorded 12 saves for the Colonels, Olivia Gayoski had two defensive saves and Dengler had one.
Oneonta outshot Wilkes 25-9, 20-8 on target, and led in penalty corner opportunities, 9-5.
The Red Dragons remain on the road for their next game on Friday, September 20, against Castleton at 7 pm.
