Hartford, Conn. - Sophomore back Payson Sword (Princeton, N.J.)
scored the game-winning goal in overtime and added an assist in the
first half to lead the Trinity College Bantams to a 3-2 victory
over the Wesleyan University Cardinals in field hockey action this
evening on Sheppard Field.
Wesleyan scored first with 15:35 left in the first half, when
sophomore forward Liz Chabot (Rye, N.Y.) put the
first shot past Bantam sophomore goalkeeper Gina Dinallo
(West Hartford, Conn.) in her last 243 minutes in the
cage. The Bantams tied the score at 1-1 with 10:26
remaining before the break, as Sword assisted sophomore forward
Caroline Snite (Philadelphia, Pa.) on her first
career goal.
The Cardinals kept the pressure on, scoring 1:48 into the second
stanza on a goal by senior co-captain Alexa David
(Bernardsville, N.J.), and held the lead largely due to
consistently solid play by freshman goalie Tori Redding
(Guilford, Conn.) who finished the game with 15
saves. Redding stopped Snite on a one-on-one breakaway later
in the second half, but Wesleyan was called for a foul on the shot,
and Trinity junior forward Robyn Williams (Bulaway,
Zimbabwe) converted the stroke for a 2-2 tie. Sword
blasted the ball past Redding from 15 feet away in the middle of
the cage on a pass by Williams 2:38 into the overtime to preserve
Trinity's 7-0 start. Dinallo finished with seven saves for
the Bantams, who outshot the Cardinals, 26-8.
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