Box Score Cantore One Assist Away from Setting Yale Single-Season
Record
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The momentum of seven wins
in 10 games has helped the Yale field hockey team earn votes in the
national poll each of the last three weeks. The Bulldogs have also
taken sole possession of second place in the Ivy League and could
finish with as many as 12 wins for just the fifth time in school
history. They look to keep their run going with a pair of road
games this week, Thursday at Quinnipiac (3 p.m.) and Sunday at Penn
(1 p.m.). On an individual level, senior midfielder Katie
Cantore (Hershey, Pa.) needs one more assist to set the
school single-season record in that category.
Yale (8-5, 3-1 Ivy League) had seven points in the
Kookaburra/NFHCA Division I National Coaches poll released Tuesday
morning. Maryland remained No. 1 with 55 of 59 first-place votes
and 1,176 points. Only two other Ivies, No. 4 Princeton and
Dartmouth (receiving votes), were in the poll. Yale's 5-2 win over
the Big Green on Saturday gave the Bulldogs sole possession of
second place in the league, trailing only 4-0 Princeton.
Last time out Yale spread the scoring around, as five different
players had goals and seven different players had assists in the
6-0 win over Fairfield Sunday. That included the first career goals
for freshman back Lexy Adams (Lancaster, Pa.) and
senior forward Lesley Kiger (Pittsburgh, Pa.),
along with the first career assists for sophomore
forward/midfielder Chelsey Locarno (Boston, Mass.)
and sophomore midfielder/back Taylor Sankovich (Short
Hills, N.J.).
Cantore tied the school single-season assist record with her
14th on Kiger's goal. She is tied for the record with
Sarah Driscoll '05 (2002 and 2003) and Maggie Smeal '82
(1979). She also took sole possession of second on Yale's career
assists list (27, 15 behind all-time leader Driscoll).
Cantore was not the only one editing the Yale record book over
the weekend. Senior forward Ashley McCauley (Rye,
N.Y.) had seven points in the two games, including three
goals and an assist. With 11 goals this season, McCauley leads the
team and is just the second player in Yale field hockey history to
have three double-digit goal seasons. She also has a team-high 24
points. A second team All-Region and unanimous first team All-Ivy
League selection last season, she has 91 points for her career and
is seven away from the school points record. Her 40 career goals
place her six goals away from the school goals record. Both marks
are held by Emily Montgomery '78.
Sunday's shutout of Fairfield was the latest in a string of
strong performances for Yale's goaltending duo of senior
Charlotte Goins (New Bern, N.C.) and junior
Katie Bolling (Ann Arbor, Mich.). Those two now
have three combined shutouts, and they have allowed only nine goals
in the last six games (a 1.49 goals-against average). Goins' 11
saves last Saturday vs. Dartmouth were the most by a Yale keeper
since Bolling stopped 15 vs. North Carolina Oct. 12, 2008.
Quinnipiac (4-9, 3-2 NEC) has beaten Yale just once in nine
meetings. The Bulldogs topped the Bobcats 6-0 last season,
highlighted by a pair of goals and an assist from McCauley. Bolling
made eight saves. Forward MacKenzie Liptak is Quinnipiac's leader
in points with 11 (three goals, five assists). Midfielder Bonnie
Shea leads in goals with four. Jenna Grossman, who made four saves
against Yale last year, has a .762 save percentage and a 2.52
goals-against average.
Yale has dropped five straight against Penn (4-9, 1-2 Ivy
League), including four in a row by one goal. The Quakers will have
gone 11 days without a game when Sunday arrives, since their game
at Columbia this past Sunday was rained out.
Penn's 4-9 record is deceiving in that four of those losses have
been by just one goal and two have come in overtime. Still, other
than a five-goal outburst against St. Francis on Oct. 11 the
Quakers have not scored more than one goal in a game since beating
Harvard 4-1 on Sept 26. Five-foot-two attacker/midfielder Laurel
McGarvie leads the team in points with 11, while she and midfielder
Sarah Hasson -- one of eight freshmen on the roster -- are tied for
the team lead in goals with five. Kieran Sweeney has a .755 save
percentage and a 2.10 goals-against average.
The challenge in playing at Franklin Field is that the facility
recently had its Astroturf replaced with Sprinturf. This "grassy"
turf is not the type of surface that field hockey is usually played
on these days, and figures to slow the ball down considerably. Yale
will utilize its FieldTurf field, Reese Stadium (home of the Yale
lacrosse and soccer teams), instead of Johnson Field for practice
later this week in preparation for Sunday's game.
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Report by Sam Rubin '95 (sam.rubin@yale.edu),
Yale Sports Publicity
