BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Yale field hockey team won its fifth straight game – and second straight by a score of 2-1 following overtime and a shootout – at Vermont Sunday. Junior forward/midfielder
Chiara Picciafuoco scored in the first quarter for a 1-0 lead. After Vermont tied the game at 26:12, the teams played 48:48 of scoreless hockey, including a 15 minute overtime. The shootout then extended past five rounds, as each team scored four times. After a Vermont miss in the seventh round, senior back
Hettie Whittington tallied to earn the victory for Yale.
Yale improves to 10-2 overall (3-2 Ivy League), while Vermont falls to 10-4 (1-2 America East).
Summary
- Yale's only shot of the first quarter came on the Bulldogs' only corner of the first quarter, and it resulted in a goal by junior forward/midfielder Chiara Picciafuoco. Senior back Hettie Whittington assisted.
- Vermont tied the game on a goal by Isi McMahon at 26:12.
- Neither team scored in the second half, though Yale had a 7-3 shot advantage in those two quarters.
- Yale outshot Vermont 5-0 in overtime, including a shot by junior midfielder Victoria Collee that hit the crossbar 10 minutes in.
- Vermont got a corner with 36.7 seconds left in overtime. The insertion sailed out to midfield, enabling the Bulldogs to counterattack and earn a penalty corner of their own with 18.8 seconds left. The Catamounts blocked the shot by Whittington.
- Yale took a 3-1 lead in the shootout on tallies by junior midfielder Kaitlyn Chang, junior midfielder Victoria Collee and Whittington. Vermont eventually tied the shootout 3-3. After senior midfielder/forward Emma Ramsey led off the fifth round with a score, Vermont answered with one of its own to send the shootout to extra rounds.
- The game finally ended in the seventh round of the shootout. First, sophomore goalkeeper Amelie Schwarzkopf forced Jaime Lewis into a shot that went wide. Whittington then dribbled towards the left post, got Vermont goalie Ila Gunner to come out and go down, and then turned around and fired the ball into the far corner of the cage for the win.
Notes
- Whittington was 3-for-3 on shootout attempts this weekend.
- This was Yale's third shootout of the season – and the Bulldogs have won all three of those games 2-1. They beat Brown 2-1 on Sept. 18 after a shootout that went seven rounds. They beat Dartmouth 2-1 this past Friday after a shootout that went five rounds.
- Yale had a 12-3 advantage in penalty corners.
- This was Yale's third straight one-goal win in the series. The Bulldogs won 3-2 in 2013 and 3-2 in overtime in 2012.
- Schwarzkopf has allowed one goal or fewer in 10 of 12 games this season.
- Picciafuoco now has nine goals for the season, tied for the Ivy League lead. She had a combined eight goals in her first two seasons.
Around the Ivy League
- Columbia 2, Hofstra 1
- Dartmouth 1, UMass Lowell 0
- No. 5 Harvard 5, BU 1
- Penn 3, Lehigh 1
- No. 3 UConn 2, Cornell 0
Up Next
- Yale hosts Penn Friday at 12:00 p.m.
