Middletown, Conn. – Blair Ingraham (Northport, N.Y.) scored the only goal of the game at 20:31 of the first half and Tori Redding (Guilford, Conn.) earned a shutout in the cage with 13 saves to lead the Wesleyan University Cardinals to a 1-0 win over the visiting Trinity College Bantams in New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) field hockey action this afternoon.  Trinity, ranked No. 17 in the nation, falls to 3-4 overall and 2-2 in the NESCAC, while the No. 20-ranked Cardinals improve to 6-1 overall and 3-1 in the league.  Wesleyan snapped a three-game losing streak to Trinity and avenged a 3-2 overtime loss in Hartford in 2009.

Trinity junior goalkeeper Gina Dinallo (West Hartford, Conn.) came out of the cage on a penalty corner, allowing Ingraham to tap the ball into an empty net for the game's only scoring.  Trinity nearly netted the equalizer in the final minutes of the half, but strong Redding stopped a shot from Trinity senior Robyn Williams (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe) and was able to seal off the edge of the cage and stop a follow-up shot from junior Payson Sword (Princeton, N.J.).

Trinity kept the offensive pressure on throughout the second half, outshooting Wesleyan by a 9-3 margin, but Redding made nine of her 13 saves in the period. Trinity's final opportunity came with 40 seconds remaining, when the Bantams were awarded a penalty corner, but the Wesleyan defense snuffed out the opportunity.  Shots were even in the contest at 15-15, while Trinity held a 7-5 edge in penalty corners. Dinallo finished with nine saves in the Trinity cage.

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