Victoria Collee.
Sam Rubin
4
Winner Yale YALE (8-2, 2-2)
1
Columbia COLUMBIA (5-5, 1-3)
Winner
Yale YALE
(8-2, 2-2)
4
Final
1
Columbia COLUMBIA
(5-5, 1-3)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Yale YALE 1 0 1 2 4
Columbia COLUMBIA 0 1 0 0 1

Game Recap: Field Hockey | | Sam Rubin

Two Goals for Collee as No. 17 Bulldogs Pull Away from Columbia, 4-1

NEW YORK – A critical Ivy League game at Columbia Friday afternoon saw the No. 17 Yale field hockey team pull away late to earn a 4-1 win over the Lions. Sophomore midfielder Victoria Collee led Yale with two goals – the first and the last of the game for the Bulldogs. Yale enjoyed an 18-2 advantage in shots, but eight saves by Columbia goalkeeper Margot Houle kept her team within striking distance until the Bulldogs scored twice in the final 12 minutes.
 
Yale is now 8-2 overall (2-2 Ivy League), while Columbia falls to 5-5 (1-3 Ivy League).
 
Summary
  • Yale had the best scoring chance in the early going, but Columbia goalkeeper Margot Houle was able to make the save on shot by senior forward/midfielder Lauren Venter on a breakaway at 4:21.
  • Yale went ahead 1-0 at 10:47 when sophomore midfielder Victoria Collee gathered in a pass from sophomore forward/midfielder Chiara Picciafuoco and drove left. When Houle came out to challenge her, Collee backhanded in her sixth goal of the season.
  • Yale held Columbia without a corner until the 27:14 mark of the second quarter. When the Lions finally got one, they converted it into their first shot – and a goal by Delfi Gonzalez Lobo on a deflection.
  • Yale nearly went ahead 2-1 on a corner midway through the third, but the shot by junior back/midfielder Hettie Whittington went just wide. 
  • The Bulldogs converted on their next corner, with Venter sticking in the rebound of a shot by Picciafuoco.
  • Senior forward Poppy Beales added an insurance goal at 48:21 in the fourth off an assist by first-year forward/midfielder Ella Ou.
  • Collee scored again at 55:53 off an assist by sophomore forward/back/midfielder Ymre Massée to make the final 4-1.
 
Notes
  • Yale outshot Columbia 6-1 in the first half and 12-1 in the second half. 
  • The Bulldogs held Columbia to a season-low two shots; no other team had held the Lions to fewer than four.
  • Yale had a 7-1 edge in corners.
  • This was Collee's second multi-goal game of the year. She had a hat trick in the 7-0 win at Colgate Sept. 28. With seven goals for the season, she has already surpassed her total from last year (four).
  • Prior to Friday, six of the last seven games between these two teams had been decided by one goal. Yale was 3-3 in those games, and had a two-goal win (4-2) in 2021.
  • With the win, Yale moves to within a half-game of the two teams who are tied for third in the Ivy League standings – Cornell and No. 8 Princeton are both 2-1. No. 4 Harvard is 3-0 and Brown is 3-1.
 
Around the Ivy League
  • Brown 4, Penn 1
  • No. 4 Harvard at Cornell (Saturday)
  • No. 8 Princeton at Dartmouth (Saturday)
 
Up Next
  • Yale visits UConn Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
 
 
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