Field Hockey Blanks AIC on Senior Day, 2-0
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T | |
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American International (0-2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Franklin Pierce (3-0) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
RINDGE, N.H. (April 11, 2021) - For the second time in four days, the Franklin Pierce University field hockey team dealt American International a 2-0 loss on Sunday. This time, freshman Anna Beck (Attleboro, Mass.) struck at the end of the first quarter and fellow freshman Julia Rooijakkers (Eindhoven, Netherlands) added a fourth-quarter goal as the Ravens celebrated Senior Day with a victory over the visiting Yellow Jackets at Sodexo Field.
With the win, Franklin Pierce improves to 3-0, while AIC falls to 0-2.
At the end of an otherwise uneventful first quarter, Franklin Pierce unleashed a flurry of shots on goal, which ultimately resulted in the Ravens earning a penalty corner as time expired. The Franklin Pierce offense generated two more shots off the corner, the second of which was blocked illegally by the defense on the goal line, resulting in a penalty stroke. Beck took the stroke and lifted it towards the right side of the cage. AIC sophomore goalkeeper Taylor Wildes got a big piece of the shot with her blocker hand, but it was not quite enough to keep the ball out of the net, and Beck wound up with her third goal of the spring.
The game went without another goal until the middle of the fourth quarter, when the Ravens found the net again, in the 54th minute. This time, the goal came directly off of a penalty corner, as freshman Annie Corbett (Oakland, Maine) inserted the ball to Rooijakkers at the top of the circle. Rooijakkers stepped inside the arc, wound and drove a shot which managed to find its way untouched through traffic and into the back of the cage for her second goal of the year.
Franklin Pierce controlled the game statistically throughout, as the Ravens ran up advantages of 13-4 in shot attempts, 8-2 in shots on goal and 9-2 in penalty corners.
Senior Olivia Barnes (Greenwich, N.Y.) stopped both shots on her cage to pick up her seventh career shutout, along with the win (3-0). Wildes (0-2) made four saves against five shots in the first half and suffered the loss for AIC. Junior Jessica Stone went the rest of the way for the Yellow Jackets and stopped two of three second-half shots.
