Field Hockey's Fourth Quarter Tally Not Enough vs. #13 Liberty

Friday, October 4

Hamden, Conn.

2:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

(3-7, 1-2BIG EAST)

Liberty

(7-1, 3-0BIG EAST)

Liberty

Quinnipiac

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Field Hockey's Fourth Quarter Tally Not Enough vs. #13 Liberty

10/4/2019 5:09:00 PM | Field Hockey

Box Score

Bobcats Fall to Flames, 5-1, in BIG EAST Play Friday Afternoon

By: QU Athletic Communications

HAMDEN, Conn. – The Quinnipiac field hockey team returned to BIG EAST play Friday afternoon with its second home contest of the conference season, falling to the No. 13 Liberty Flames, 5-1.

Bianka Strubbe (Wroclaw, Poland) scored her fifth goal of the season with an early fourth quarter strike while Inès Ruiz Martinez (Madrid, Spain) picked up an assist and a defensive save to lead the way. Alyssa Watson (Honesdale, Pennsylvania) also recorded an assist on Strubbe's goal.

The Bobcats held the Flames to just one goal in the first quarter and had a second Liberty goal reversed after a video referral to keep it 1-0 heading into the second quarter. Liberty scored three goals in a span of 2:54 to take a 4-0 at halftime.

Despite the deficit, the Bobcats added extra defensive pressure in the second half and held the Flames to just one goal in the final 30 minutes of play and just five total shots. Strubbe gave the Bobcats life early in the fourth quarter but they could not add another to pull within two.

Hedda Biermann-Ratjen (Hamburg, Germany) made five saves in the first half before Mack Vorel (Mendham, New Jersey) came in and stopped two of the three shots she faced in the second half.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 1, #13 Liberty 5

LOCATION
Quinnipiac Field Hockey Stadium | Hamden, Conn.

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (3-7, 1-2 BIG EAST) | Liberty (7-1, 3-0 BIG EAST)

SCORING SUMMARY

12:54 (Quinnipiac 0, Liberty 1): Daniella Rhodes got the Flames on the board in the waning stages of the first quarter as Jill Bolton fed the ball into the circle and Rhodes managed to just sneak the ball past Biermann-Ratjen
22:58 (Quinnipiac 0, Liberty 2): Maddie Hosler tallied her second goal of the season off a broken penalty corner as the ball went out to Alexis Paone who found Hosler on the left side of the circle and buried her shot.
24:00 (Quinnipiac 0, Liberty 3): Charlotte Vaanhold scored her first of two goals that were assisted by Lizzie Hamlet as Hamlett sprinted into the circle and tapped the ball up to Vaanhold who hit it with the reverse side to tuck the ball into the right corner
26:12 (Quinnipiac 0, Liberty 4): Vaanhold scored another goal off a reverse as Hamlett passed the ball into the circle, Vaanhold corralled the ball off a deflection from Bolton and a couple bounces before she slapped the ball into the goal
45:52 (Quinnipiac 1, Liberty 4): Strubbe got the Bobcats on the board with her fourth goal on a penalty corner this season as Watson inserted the ball to Ruiz Martinez at the stick stop and Strubbe struck the ball home
57:50 (Quinnipiac 1, Liberty 5): The Flames rounded out the scoring as Bolton tallied a goal of her own on a short pass from Mallory Fortenbaugh on the penalty corner and it deflected off Vorel into the net.

NOTES

Ruiz Martinez tallied her fourth assist of the season and third defensive save with her performance on Friday
She is just on assist shy of tying her career-high of five assists from her freshman season and now has 16 career defensive saves
Strubbe's goal was her fifth of the season and now has 12 points to keep her among the BIG EAST leaders
Four of Strubbe's five goals have come on penalty corners
Watson recorded her first point of the 2019 season and first career assist as she was the inserter on Strubbe's penalty corner goal.
Vorel appeared in regulation of her first game since Sept. 3 and made a pair of saves to up her season total to 26 to go with a save percentage of .743.
Biermann-Ratjen tallied another five saves to give her 43 on the season and has now made at least five saves in five of her nine games.

FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Becca Main
"What we talked about with the team is that 30 minutes doesn't make a game. It's a 60-minute game and we've had struggles with this all season. Liberty is incredibly skilled, incredibly fast and the best team we've seen. They're really crafty.

"I'm really proud of our DPC unit, we knew their APCs were amazing and you didn't get to see didn't get to see it today because our DPC's outdid their APCs. We had a strict game plan, it was so long it was stuck in the bottom of a box. You had to read it so they could figure out what they were doing each time but it was a really good way to have kept ourselves in the game and not be in a blowout like 8 or 9-0."

UP NEXT

Quinnipiac travels up to Newton, Mass., where the Bobcats will take on the No. 17 Boston College Eagles in non-conference play on Sunday beginning at 12 PM from the Boston College Field Hockey Complex.