Hartford, Conn. - The Trinity College Bantams posted a 2-1
victory over the visiting Connecticut College Camels in the
quarterfinal round of the New England Small College Athletic
Conference (NESCAC) Field Hockey Championship Tournament afternoon
on Sheppard Field. Trinity, ranked No. 4 in the nation,
advances to the NESCAC Semifinals, which will be held on Sheppard
Field on Saturday, Nov. 7, and will play the four-time defending
NESCAC Champion and two-time defending NCAA Champion Bowdoin
College Polar Bears in the first game at 11 a.m. Tufts plays
Williams in the other NESCAC Semifinal game at Trinity next
Saturday at 1:30 p.m., and the NESCAC Championship Finals will be
at Trinity on Sunday, Nov. 8 at noon. Trinity, which came
just short of a perfect regular season on Friday with a 1-0 loss to
Amherst, improves to 14-1 and Connecticut College closes the 2009
season at 5-10.
Connecticut College took an early lead 15 minutes into the
contest when junior forward Abby Hine (Madison,
Conn.) smacked in a pass from senior tri-captain
midfielder Ellen Cavanaugh (Cheshire, Conn.) that
had deflected off a Trinity player's stick leaving Bantam sophomore
goalkeeper Gina Dinallo (West Hartford, Conn.) out
of position to make a save. The Camels maintained their lead
for just over eight minutes, until Trinity junior midfielder
Robyn Williams (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe) rocketed a
shot into the cage from the top of the circle on a penalty corner
with 11:32 remaining in the first half. Bantam sophomore back
Payson Sword (Princeton, N.J.) provided the assist
from the end line. Trinity scored again 4:17 later, as
junior forward Christy Bradley (Wellesley, Mass.)
scored the eventual gamewinner from freshman midfielder
Michelle Williams (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe)
with 7:15 remaining before intermission.
Neither team had many scoring chances in the second half,
although Camel senior goalie Steph Quinn
(Arlington, Mass.) kept her team within a goal with a
point-blank save on a one-on-one breakaway opportunity by Bradley
with 3:46 left on the clock. Trinity outshot the Camels,
21-3, and held them to just one shot through the
first half and much of the second stanza of the game,
before Connecticut College earned themselves a pair of penalty
corners late in the second half, but failed to tie the game.
Dinallo finished with one save and Quinn stopped 10 shots
for Connecticut College.
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