Field Hockey Comes Up Short at Hofstra

Monday, September 16

Hempstead, N.Y. / Hofstra Field Hockey Stadium

3:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

(1-4)

Hofstra

(2-4)

Quinnipiac

Hofstra

Bianka Strubbe Takes Penalty Stroke vs. Sacred Heart

Photo by: Rob Rasmussen / P8Photos.com

9/16/2019 5:45:00 PM | Field Hockey

Box Score

Strubbe Nets Two Goals but Bobcats Can't Overcome Pride's Three Second Half Tallies

By: QU Athletic Communications

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – Quinnipiac field hockey graduate student Bianka Strubbe (Wroclaw, Poland) scored a pair of goals for her first career two-goal game and the Bobcats battled in the fourth quarter but came up just short in a 3-2 loss at Hofstra Monday afternoon.

Both of Strubbe's goals came on penalty corners for the Bobcats with Inès Ruiz Martinez (Madrid, Spain) and Valerie Perkins (Mohegan Lake, New York) each picking up a pair of assists on the tallies.

Strubbe put the Bobcats up 1-0 early in the second quarter with her first of the game, a lead the Bobcats took into halftime.

After Hofstra scored three straight goals in the third and fourth quarters, Strubbe got Quinnipiac back within a goal with just over six minutes remaining in the game.

Eva Veldhorst (Maastricht, Netherlands) and Perkins each had shots saved later in the quarter and Strubbe's final shot off a penalty corner went wide with just over 1:30 left to play.

Quinnipiac converted two of its five penalty corners for goals while the defensive group did not allow a goal on penalty corners.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 2, Hofstra 3

LOCATION
Hofstra Field Hockey Stadium | Hempstead, N.Y.

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (1-4, 0-0 BIG EAST) | Hofstra (2-4, 0-0 CAA)

SCORING SUMMARY

15:59 (Quinnipiac 1, Hofstra 0): Off the Bobcats second penalty corner of the game, Perkins inserted the corner from the right side where Ruiz Martinez was positioned as the stick-stop and Strubbe rifled home the goal.
38:21 (Quinnipiac 1, Hofstra 1): The Pride tied the game midway through the third quarter as Madison Warfel carried the ball from midfield into the circle, stopped and spun before beating Biermann-Ratjen in the lower, right corner.
40:34 (Quinnipiac 1, Hofstra 2): Camilla Larsson gave Hofstra the lead just two minutes later on a penalty stroke after a save on a penalty corner for the Pride.
(50:14 (Quinnipiac 1, Hofstra 3): Warfel added her second of the game just before the midway point of the fourth quarter as Alyssa Kohler whiffed on the shot and it slide to her left where Warfel was there to tuck it inside the near post.
53:57 (Quinnipiac 2, Hofstra 3): Once again, the Bobcats converted on a penalty corner as Perkins inserted the ball to Ruiz Martinez at the stick-stop for Strubbe who rifled the shot off a Hofstra stick and into the goal

NOTES

Strubbe's two-goal performance was the first multiple-goal game of her career and she now has goals in back-to-back games
Strubbe also has points in six of her last seven games dating back to the 2018 season, recording six goals and three assists for 15 points in that span
Her three goals also equals her entire total from the 2018 season
Ruiz-Martinez recorded the second two-assist game of her career as she helped out on both of Strubbe's goals
Ruiz-Martinez equaled her 2018 point total with her two-helper game and now has two assists in three straight seasons
Perkins recorded her first two points of the season with her pair of helpers Monday and had two assists in a game for the first time in her career.
Hedda Biermann-Ratjen (Hamburg, Germany) finished the game with five saves and now has 11 saves in her first two starts to go with a 1.70 GAA and .792 save percentage.

FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Becca Main
On Monday's game
"This is something we're typically accustomed to is having a really tight game whenever we play Hofstra. It's been that way throughout the years and the main reason we keep them on our schedule. It was a battle that went back-and-forth and the score shows that.

"I saw some really bright spots and good things for us, like changing some things on our corners that resulted in two goals for us and coupled with the fact that we're trying to use some younger players and work them through the system, I'm pretty happy with that.

"It's obviously not the outcome we were looking for and we have to learn to fight and play the Bobcat style for the entire 60 minutes. We tend to come in and out of our style, and that becomes difficult for each other to gel.

On Bianka Strubbe
"Bianka, for me, is just the fiercest competitor and after we left this game, we took some notes and decided we're just not fierce enough in the ARZ. We put her up there for a little bit and you might see her there a little more often because she just has that go-getter, get out of my way mentality and she's very physical.

"Some people have the mentality to be strong but maybe can't back it up physically but she's somebody that backs it up physically, mentally and in terms of preparation she's just a good example of what a Division I player at Quinnipiac should be"

UP NEXT

The Bobcats return back to the Quinnipiac Field Hockey Stadium for a pair of games this weekend as they face the No. 3 UConn Huskies on Friday afternoon for Quinnipiac Faculty/Staff Appreciation Day followed by a visit from the Vermont Catamounts on Sunday at 12 p.m.