DUDLEY, Mass.—The Nichols College field hockey team defeated Anna Maria, 5-2, Saturday afternoon in a The Commonwealth Coast Conference game at Vendetti Field. Junior Sara Bailey (Athol, Mass.) and sophomore Eileen Clinton (Londonderry, N.H.) each had two goals for the Bison. Nichols improves their record to 8-5, while Anna Maria falls to 1-11.
Bailey started the scoring early in the game, when she scored off a rebound into the lower left corner of the net during the third minute of play. She scored again in the first half, off a feed to the middle from outside the arc by Clinton.
Later in the first half, Bailey returned the favor to Clinton, passing it from the right through the middle, setting Clinton up for a shot in the left corner, past Anna Maria goalie, Alyssa Boykin (Worcester, Mass.) Clinton scored again in the second half, off a pass to the middle by Chelsea Correia (Seekonk, Mass.).
The Bison scored one more time midway through the second half, when senior Brittany Case (Cambridge, Mass.) put it in after a scramble around the net left her an open shot.
Anna Maria kept pushing throughout the second half, and broke through late in the second half when junior forward Angela Giuffrida (Leicester, Mass.) received a pass off a corner, and shot it in the lower left corner from 10 yards out. Giuffrida scored again in the second half off a shot that was deflected by the Nichols goalie and picked up by Giuffrida for the score.
Junior MaryKate Bednarz (Springfield, Mass.) split the time in the net for Nichols with first-year goalie Mary Michaud (Agawam, Mass.). Bednarz recorded one save, and Michaud picked up three. With the win, Bednarz improves her record to 8-4.Boykin recorded 20 saves for the visiting AMCATS, and with the loss falls to 1-10 overall.
The Bison are now 8-5 overall, and 4-0 in the conference. Anna Maria is now 1-11, 0-5 in the conference.
Next, Nichols hosts Worcester State on Wednesday, October 15 at 7 p.m., and Anna Maria plays Regis College at home Monday at 3:30 p.m. in a TCCC game.
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