NEW HAVEN, Conn. – With two seniors leading the way with four points each, the Yale field hockey team posted a decisive 6-0 win at Wagner Friday afternoon. Senior forward
Camille Scheyer scored a pair of goals, while classmate midfielder
Bridget Condie had a goal and two assists.
Yale (2-3, 0-0 Ivy League) was coming off two hard-fought losses at nationally ranked opponents in Virginia last weekend. The Bulldogs quickly put those defeats behind them by scoring four goals in a span of 10 minutes in the second quarter, breaking open a 1-0 game. They outshot Wagner 15-2 in the first half.
"After the trip down south, we came back with specific things to work on," said
Pam Stuper, Yale's Caroline Ruth Thompson '02 Head Coach of Field Hockey. "We've been focused on those, and it's good to see that pay off. Today was a collective team effort in the circle, with goals and assists from a variety of people."
In addition to Condie and Scheyer's work, the Bulldogs also got goals from sophomore midfielder
Iliana Cabral, junior forward/midfielder
Imogen Davies and junior forward/midfielder
Olivia Levieux. Levieux also had an assist.
Up 5-0 at halftime, the Bulldogs sent first year
Luanna Summer in to make her Yale goalkeeping debut in relief of junior
Sydney Terroso. Summer made a pair of saves -- and got help from a defensive save by senior back
Holly Jackson -- to preserve the shutout.
This was just the second game ever on Wagner's new field. This is the Seahawks' first season of field hockey since 1978, and 10 of the team's 17 players are freshmen.
"It was a great opportunity for our team to play a new team, someone we don't know, at a place we've never been," said Stuper. "That team has some talent, they're just young."
Yale opens Ivy League play Saturday Sept. 28, hosting No. 14 Harvard.
