Medonca Scores Career-High Two Goals; Field Hockey Edged 4-3 by No. 17 Boston U.

Sunday, August 28

Durham, NH

2 PM

University of New Hampshire

(1-1)

Boston University

(2-0)

Boston U.

New Hampshire

Medonca Scores Career-High Two Goals; Field Hockey Edged 4-3 by No. 17 Boston U.

8/28/2016 4:52:00 PM | Field Hockey

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UNH Places Second in Wildcat Classic

DURHAM, N.H. – Ashley Mendonca (Brampton, Ontario) scored a career-high two goals for the University of New Hampshire field hockey team in Sunday afternoon's championship game of the Wildcat Classic at Memorial Field, but 17^th-ranked Boston University won the title with a 4-3 victory.

In the third-place game, which preceded the title game, 16^th-ranked Northwestern University scored less than three minutes into the game and defeated UMass, 5-0.

GAME INFO
Date: August 28, 2016
Location: Memorial Field (Durham, N.H.)
Attendance: 378
Score: No. 17 Boston U. 4, New Hampshire 3
Updated Records: BU (2-0), UNH (1-1)

NEXT GAME: Friday, Sept. 2 vs. Drexel University (3 p.m.)

GOALS:
BU (4): Taylor Blood (1), Amanda Cassera (1), Kara Enoch (1), Ally Hammel (1)
UNH (3): Ashley Mendonca (2), Lindsey Nerbonne (1)

ASSISTS:
BU (3): Amanda Cassera (1), Allie Doggett (1), Sara Martineau (1)
UNH (3): Gianna Bensaia (2), Katie Audino (1)

SAVES:
BU: Cammy Jensen 5-1–6 (70:00; 3 GA)
UNH: Kelsey Rudert 2-1–3 (70:00; 4 GA)

UNH v BU GAME RECAP

Lindsey Nerbonne (Bow, N.H.) scored her third goal of the tourney to give the Wildcats a 1-0 lead at 8:40. Gianna Bensaia (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) struck a long entry into the circle from near midfield on the right side. Nerbonne charged through the circle and, with a diving effort, tipped the ball into the cage.
BU quickly responded with two goals – Ally Hammel at 10:20 and Amanda Cassera at 12:54 – to take a 2-1 lead.
Mendonca leveled the score, 2-2, at 16:52. She carried the ball from the top of the circle to the middle before blasting a reverse-stick shot that sailed into the top of the cage.
The Terriers once again responded with consecutive goals to build a 4-2 advantage. Sara Martineau's pass from the middle of the circle found Kara Enoch deep on the right side at 28:50 for the visitor's third goal of the game. Amanda Cassera's stick-eye coordination produced the next goal, as she knocked a high ball in the middle of the circle down to Taylor Blood, who swept a shot inside the open right side of the cage at 33:56.
BU took that two-goal lead and a 9-7 shot advantage into halftime.
New Hampshire converted a penalty corner into a goal to trim the deficit to 4-3 at 47:44. Katie Audino (Severn, Md.) inserted a pass to the top of the circle to Bensaia, who stopped the ball for Mendonca's low, hard shot.
BU goalkeeper Cammy Jensen, who made six saves vs. the UNH Wildcats and nine in Friday's 2-1 win against the Northwestern Wildcats, was named the tourney's Most Outstanding Player.
Kelsey Rudert (North Grafton, Mass.) was credited with three saves.

'CAT NIPS

It marked the first multiple-assist game for Bensaia (2a).
A Wildcat has scored multiple goals each of the first two games of the season – Nerbonne in the season opener followed by Mendonca on Sunday.
Nerbonne is the only 'Cat who recorded a point in both games of the Wildcat Classic.

SHOTS
BU: 9-8–17. UNH 7-3–10.

PENALTY CORNERS
BU: 1-5–6. UNH 1-2–3.

NORTHWESTERN vs. UMASS GAME RECAP

Northwestern's Isabel Flens scored 2:51 into the game to propel NU to a 3-0 halftime lead en route to a 5-0 victory. Flens finished with two goals and an assist.
Dominique Masters set up the next tally (by Lily Katzman) at 13:59 and then scored at 15:34 to quickly push the advantage to three goals. Katzman's goal was scored on a tip of Masters' direct shot on a penalty corner. Masters then tipped in Flens' pass 95 seconds later.
Momentum continued in NU's favor early in the second half when the designated visiting team converted another corner into a 4-0 lead at 38:10. Sophia Miller corralled the ball deep on the right side and Elena Curley swept in the centering pass.
Flens corralled Charlotte Vaziri's pass on the right end line, drove toward the near post and lifted a shot into the cage to close the scoring at 58:42.
NU goalie Lindsay van der Luft made all four of her saves in the second half.
UMass counterpart Emily Hazard stopped three shots in both halves for a total of six.