Field Hockey Drops BIG EAST Opener with No. 4 UConn, 5-0

Friday, September 20

Hamden, Conn.

3:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

(1-5, 0-0BIG EAST)

UConn

(6-1, 1-1BIG EAST)

UConn

Quinnipiac

Photo by: Rob Rasmussen / P8Photos.com

Field Hockey Drops BIG EAST Opener with No. 4 UConn, 5-0

9/20/2019 6:01:00 PM | Field Hockey

Box Score

Biermann-Ratjen Makes Career-High 10 Saves in Third Career Start

By: QU Athletic Communications

HAMDEN, Conn. – Hedda Biermann-Ratjen (Hamburg, Germany) recorded a career-high 10 saves Friday afternoon but the Quinnipiac Field Hockey Team fell to the No. 4 UConn Huskies, 5-0, in the opener to BIG EAST play.

Biermann-Ratjen made seven saves in the first quarter and limited the Huskies to just one goal in the opening stanza before the in-state foes rattled off three goals in the second quarter to take a 4-0 lead.

Quinnipiac's defense settled in, allowing just three shots on goal in the entire second half, including zero in the fourth quarter.

Bianka Strubbe (Wroclaw, Poland) fired three shots on goal, including two in the fourth quarter on penalty quarters but could not beat the Huskies goaltending duo of Cheyenne Sprecher and Abby Lucas. Quinnipiac recorded six penalty corners, its second-most in a game this season.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 0, UConn 5

LOCATION
Quinnipiac Field Hockey Stadium | Hamden, Conn.

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (1-5, 0-1 BIG EAST) | UConn (6-1, 1-0 BIG EAST)

SCORING SUMMARY

8:44 (Quinnipiac 0, UConn 1): Maddie Wray dribbled the ball into the right corner where she fired the ball into the circle and Sophie Hamilton redirected the ball into the cage for the first goal of the game.
20:13 (Quinnipiac 0, UConn 2): Wray tallied a goal of her own to take a 2-0 lead in the early stages of the second quarter as she threw a ball on cage and it was deflected in off a Quinnipiac stick.
25:20 (Quinnipiac 0, UConn 3): Svea Boker scored her first of two goals in a span of four minutes as she took a pass from Kourtney Kennedy off a missed stick-stop and beat Biermann-Ratjen for the goal.
29:08 (Quinnipiac 0, UConn 4): Boker scored her second of the quarter off a feed from Abby Gooderham.
34:03 (Quinnipiac 0, UConn 5): Hamilton buried her second goal of the game early in the third quarter as Gooderham picked up her second assist with another helper to cap off the scoring.

NOTES

Biermann-Ratjen's 10 saves were a career-high for the Bobcats' freshman goalkeeper
She made an impressive seven saves in the first period before the Bobcats' defense limited UConn to just eight shots on goal over the final three quarters
Biermann-Ratjen now has 29 saves on the season in five games and three starts
Inès Ruiz Martinez (Madrid, Spain) recorded her second defensive save of the season and 15^th of her career as she stopped a shot on the near post on a penalty corner for the Bobcats
Strubbe continued her impressive performance on the offensive end as she fired all three Quinnipiac shots on goal and now has 15 on the season after just 19 shots on goal in her first season with the program in 2018

FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Becca Main
"We tried to play some stall hockey today and spent a lot of the week stalling against one of the top teams in the country. The stall, for us, took a while to get it going and then we did a nice job. We didn't want to concede in the middle at the top of the circle, which we didn't.

"We wanted to do well with our DPCs, which I think we did okay with them, and we wanted to put ourselves in a position for a fourth quarter push.

"We gave up two (bad) goals on us that were our fault so we should have been sitting in a situation at halftime where we could have maybe pushed a little bit earlier. I liked the way we worked out of it but I did not like our first quarter."

UP NEXT

Quinnipiac returns to non-conference play Sunday as the Bobcats welcome the Vermont Catamounts (3-3) to Hamden beginning at 12 p.m. at the Quinnipiac Field Hockey Stadium