Late Push Not Enough as Field Hockey Falls at Villanova, 2-1

Friday, October 5

Villanova, Pa. / Villanova Field Hockey Field

4:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

(4-7, 1-3)

Villanova

(5-7, 2-2)

Team	1	2	Final F
QUINNIPIAC	0	1	1
Villanova	0	2	2

Photo by: John Hassett

Late Push Not Enough as Field Hockey Falls at Villanova, 2-1

10/5/2018 6:51:00 PM | Field Hockey

Box Score

Whipkey Scores for Second Straight Game, Up to Three Goals on Season

By: QU Athletic Communications

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – Brooke Whipkey (Charlotte, North Carolina) scored her second goal in as many games Friday afternoon but the Quinnipiac field hockey team fell to the Villanova Wildcats, 2-1, in BIG EAST action.

The Bobcats put up a strong fight with numerous scoring chances, highlighted by Amanda Blum's (Langhorne, Pennsylvania) diving shot attempt off a pass from Marisa Larkin (Saratoga Springs, New York) early in the first half but came up just short.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 1, Villanova 2

LOCATION
Villanova Field Hockey Field | Conshohocken, Pennsylvania

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (4-7, 1-3 BIG EAST) | Villanova (5-7, 2-2 BIG EAST)

SCORING SUMMARY

44:04 (Quinnipiac 0, Villanova 1) – Abby Siana put the Wildcats on top with 25:56 left in the second half as she tipped home a blast from the top of the circle by Riley Dolan on a penalty corner for her first goal of the season
52:11 (Quinnipiac 0, Villanova 2) – Lydia Sydnor got into the scoring mix as she put home a penalty stroke
67:11 (Quinnipiac 1, Villanova 2) – Whipkey fired home her third goal of the season after picking up a turnover inside the 25-yard line and rifling the ball past the goalkeeper

NOTES

Whipkey moved into second on the team with her third goal of the season and has now scored in back-to-back games for the first time in her career
Dating back to Sept. 16 against Brown, Whipkey has scored all three of her goals in the last five games
She is third on the team with eight points, coming off three goals and two assists
Hannah Teicher (Annapolis, Maryland) tallied three saves to surpass 40 saves on the season
Teicher is up to 42 saves on the season
Makayla Adams (Sweet Valley, Pennsylvania) led all players with three shots on goal while Ines Ruiz Martinez (Madrid, Spain), Bianka Strubbe (Wroclaw, Poland) and Whipkey all had two shots on goal
Quinnipiac tied its season-high with 14 total shots

FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Becca Main
On Friday's game:
"Some of our individual skill work came in handy at the end to put us back into the game but as a group we're just a little frustrated with how the game went and with the output. For us to move forward on the back side of the ball and to try to get to the front again and have a lot to do this month in terms of beating the next three teams that we play.

"That's something we're going to dig in for and dive into, and I imagine as we deep-dive into it we're going to come out on the other side of it because we have the opportunity as a team and the skill level of a team that we're pleased with moving forward."

On Brooke Whipkey:
You have to be born with the ability to put the ball in the net. You really can't teach somebody, you can teach a team to learn to put it in, and she is somebody that's been born with it. That's the way she was with soccer, that's the way she is with field hockey and that's the way she takes challenges on in life and she finishes them. She's a true scorer. She had made a mistake about two seconds before and I could sense her brain that she wanted the ball and to put it away, which she did.

UP NEXT

The Bobcats return home after a three-game road trip to take on the Providence Friars in BIG EAST play on Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. Friday also marks Quinnipiac's Vs. Cancer game to raise money and awareness for pediatric cancer