UNH Edged 2-0 in Senior Day Border Battle vs Maine

Friday, November 1

Durham, N.H.

4 PM

University of New Hampshire

(8-9, 2-3AE)

Maine

(8-8, 4-1AE)

MAINE

New Hampshire

Photo by: Vincent Dejana

11/1/2019 6:31:00 PM | Field Hockey

Box Score

DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire field hockey team recorded a 9-7 shot advantage but was upended by the University of Maine, 2-0, at Memorial Field on Friday afternoon.

UNH ends the regular season at 8-9 overall and 2-3 in America East. Despite the loss, the Wildcats secured a berth in the America East Championship tournament by virtue of Vermont's loss to Monmouth on Friday. New Hampshire will be the East Division third or fourth seed at the tourney, which is Nov. 7-10 at Monmouth.

Maine is 8-8, 4-1.

UNH goalkeeper Jemma Woods (Frimley, England) made two saves and Nicky Bajus (Lions Bay, British Columbia) was credited with a defensive save. Maine goalie Mia Borley stopped one shot.

1st QUARTER
Maine's Chloe Walton stickhandled around Woods towards the open cage, but Bajus stopped the shot three yards in front of the goal line and cleared the ball to safety.
With four minutes remaining, the Wildcats advanced the ball behind the Black Bear defense to Bailey Fanikos (Lynnfield, Mass.), but Borley charged to the top of the circle and tipped the ball away to deny the scoring opportunity.
The shots were tied, 1-1, in a scoreless first quarter

2nd QUARTER
Both teams recorded one shot – none on goal – in the scoreless second quarter

3rd QUARTER
In the 34th minute, Isabelle Danahy (Chemlsford, Mass.) hit a long entry pass that deflected at the top of the circle off a Maine stick toward the cage and Finn Caron (Hampton, N.H.) deflected the ball out of mid-air wide of the left post.
One minute later, Chloe Walton got behind the Wildcat defense, but Woods rushed from the goal line to make a sliding leg pad save to keep the game scoreless.
Jaiden Wittel (Stroudsburg, Pa.) sent in a long entry pass from the right side to the top of the circle. Danahy collected the ball, then turned and ripped a low shot just wide of the left post.
Maine's Riley Field dribbled the ball from outside the 25 to the top-right circle, and then drove a shot that was tipped by Julia Ross inside the left side of the cage to give Maine the 1-0 lead at 38:07.

4th QUARTER
In the 46th minute, Maine's Nina Keur dribbled into the top of the circle and her shot through traffic increased the lead 2-0 just 29 seconds into the final frame.
Maine's Keur broke past the defense leading Woods to come out of the crease for a diving save, to deny the Black Bears a scoring chance.
From the right wing, Bloem van den Brekel (Eindohen, Netherlands) blasted a rising shot that was knocked down by Borley.
UNH pulled Woods in favor of an extra field player with 2:56 remaining.
The Wildcats generated pressure as Fanikos' initial shot from the middle of the circle was blocked but resulted in a corner with 2:11 on the clock.
Kayla Sliz (Ajax, Ontario) had her direct shot from the top of the circle blocked, but the 'Cats sustained pressure and earned another corner with 1:39 to play.
Fanikos' shot was blocked but produced another corner, and this time it was van den Brekel's shot from the top of the circle that was blocked.
Maine did not allow another shot the rest of the way to preserve the win.

SENIOR DAY
UNH's three-member senior class of Bajus, Fanikos and Sliz, as well as team manager Drucila Sargent, was honored prior to the game. It was the last game at Memorial Field for the seniors.

SHOTS: UNH 1-1-2-5–9. M 1-1-3-2–7.

PENALTY CORNERS: UNH 1-0-0-3–4. M 0-0-1-0–1.

GOALS
UNH (0) –
M (2) – Julia Ross, Nina Keur

ASSISTS
UNH (0) –
M (1) – Riley Field

SAVES
UNH: Jemma Woods 0-0-1-1–2 (57:04; 2 GA) [loss]
M: Mia Borley 0-0-0-1–1 (60:00; 0 GA) [WIN]

DEFENSIVE SAVES
UNH (1) – Nicky Bajus
M (0)