Field Hockey Shuts Out Sacred Heart, 2-0, in Sunday Night Showdown

Sunday, October 21

New Haven, Conn. / Johnson Field

5:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

(5-10, 1-5)

Sacred Heart

(8-9, 2-2)

Quinnipiac

Sacred Heart

Hannah Teicher Diving on Penalty Corner vs. Georgetown

Photo by: John Hassett

Field Hockey Shuts Out Sacred Heart, 2-0, in Sunday Night Showdown

10/21/2018 9:12:00 PM | Field Hockey

Box Score

Bobcats Pick Up Win in Night of Firsts at Johnson Field

By: QU Athletic Communications

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – It was a night of firsts for the Quinnipiac field hockey team Sunday night in their 2-0 shutout of the Sacred Heart Pioneers at Johnson Field on the campus of Yale University.

Goalkeeper Hannah Teicher (Bethesda, Maryland) recorded her first career shutout while Bianka Strubbe (Wroclaw, Poland) and Isabella Sinibaldi (Voorhees, New Jersey) each tallied their first career goals for the Bobcats.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 2, Sacred Heart 0

LOCATION
Johnson Field | New Haven, Connecticut

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (5-10, 1-5 BIG EAST) | Sacred Heart (8-9, 2-2 MAAC)

SCORING SUMMARY

34:29 (Quinnipiac 1, SHU 0): Jess Halley (Glasgow, Scotland) passed the ball into the circle where it ricocheted to Strubbe who stepped into the shot and rifled the ball past Sacred Heart goalkeeper Hailey Power
53:08 (Quinnipiac 2, SHU 0): The Bobcats doubled their lead 2-0 as Sinibaldi received a pass from Amanda Blum (Langhorne, Pennsylvania) and tucked the ball inside the near post past a charging Power

NOTES

Teicher needed to make just one save to record her first career shutout against the Pioneers
Teicher recorded Quinnipiac's first shutout since a 1-0 win vs. Temple on Oct. 20, 2017
Earlier this season, Teicher recorded her first career win and improved to 5-8-1
Strubbe recorded her first career goal for the Bobcats with her rocket
She recorded her first career point earlier this season with an assist at Liberty
Sinibaldi also picked up her first career goal on just her second shot on goal this season.
Following Sinibaldi and Strubbe's goals, seven players recorded their first career goals this season and eight have recorded their first points
Blum took over the team lead on the season with her third assist as she fed Sinibaldi for her first career goal
She has points in three of her last four games

FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Becca Main
In the month of October we've struggled to really have growth and that was what our discussion was today is to grow each day. We grew a lot in our outletting, our press was just phenomenal and made the difference in the game. That's something we've been talking about recently.

"To have firsts for Hannah, Izzy and Bianka is pretty exciting because when anyone can get a first, the whole team can celebrate so to have three of those today is very exciting.

"If I were to give them a score out of 10, I'd give them a 10 for culture and chemistry. That's what leaves you at the end of the season when you know you can't make the BIG EAST championship still be able to push through on a Sunday night in the freezing cold at 5 PM. That shows character, that shows an urgency and today we did a really nice job stepping to ball, which was our goal."

UP NEXT
The Bobcats open up the final weekend of play in 2018 on Friday night against the Temple Owls in the last BIG EAST regular season game before closing out the year at Holy Cross on Sunday afternoon.