Field Hockey Comes Up Short at Liberty

Friday, September 28

Lynchburg, Va. / Liberty Field Hockey Field

4:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

(4-6, 1-2BIG EAST)

Liberty

(8-2, 3-0BIG EAST)

Team	1	2	Final F
Quinnipiac	1	0	1
Liberty	6	2	8

9/28/2018 6:03:00 PM | Field Hockey

Box Score

Whipkey Nets Second Goal of Season as Bobcats Fall to Flames, 8-1

By: QU Athletic Communications

LYNCHBURG, Va. – Brooke Whipkey (Charlotte, North Carolina) scored her second goal of the season Friday afternoon but the Quinnipiac field hockey team fell to the No. 20 Liberty Flames, 8-1, at the Liberty Field Hockey Field.

Freshman Alicia Galasso (Sweet Valley, Pennsylvania) thrived between the pipes as she came off the bench in the first half, making nine saves with six of them coming in the second half.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 1, Liberty 8

LOCATION
Liberty Field Hockey Field | Lynchburg, Virginia

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (4-6, 1-2 BIG EAST) | Liberty (8-2, 3-0 BIG EAST)

SCORING SUMMARY

1:11 (Quinnipiac 0, Liberty 1) – The Flames got on the board first as Alivia Klopp scored her first goal of the season, cleaning up a loose ball in the circle.
4:59 (Quinnipiac 0, Liberty 2) – Agueda Moroni tallied her first goal of the game off a penalty corner to double the Flames early lead
13:06 (Quinnipiac 0, Liberty 3) – Moroni fired home her 18^th goal of the season, and second of the game
18:10 (Quinnipiac 0, Liberty 4) – Morning picked up her fifth point of the game as she assisted Maddie Hosler's first goal fo the season
25:12 (Quinnipiac 0, Liberty 5) – Liberty's Victoria O'Keefe got into the scoring wither second of the season
28:39 (Quinnipiac 1, Liberty 5) – Whipkey put the Bobcats on the board with 6:21 left in the first half as she put home a goal from the back door on a cross from Bianka Strubbe (Wroclaw, Poland) in the right corner of the field
33:56 (Quinnipiac 1, Liberty 6) – O'Keefe tallied her second goal fo the game and third of the season in one of her best offensive performances
58:53 (Quinnipiac 1, Liberty 7) – Kendra Jones got in the scoring action for the Flames with a shot from the right side
61:38 (Quinnipiac 1, Liberty 8 – Moroni completed the hat trick for the Flames with a shot from the top of the circle off a penalty corner

NOTES

Whipkey's goal was her second of the season, and of her career, after her first career goal came against Brown when she tallied a goal and an assist
Strubbe tallied her first career collegiate point with the assist on Whipkey's goal
Freshman goalkeeper Alicia Galasso (Sweet Valley, Pennsylvania) tallied a career-high nine saves in her third game of the season
Her nine saves are also a season-high for Quinnipiac goalkeepers
Alyssa Watson (Honesdale, Pennsylvania) recorded her first career defensive save for the Bobcats just one game after scoring her first career goal
Watson's defensive save was the sixth of the season for Quinnipiac as Ines Ruiz Martinez (Madrid, Spain) leads the nation with five

UP NEXT

Quinnipiac field hockey returns to the field next Friday when the Bobcats travel down to Villanova, Pennsylvania for a BIG EAST showdown with the Villanova Wildcats at 4 p.m. from the Conshocken Proving Grounds.