Caron Scores Twice in 4-2 Loss at American

Friday, August 30

Washington, D.C.

3 PM

University of New Hampshire

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American University

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New Hampshire

American

Photo by: Audrey Powell

8/30/2019 6:16:00 PM | Field Hockey

Box Score

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Finn Caron (Hampton, N.H.) scored a pair of second-half goals, but the University of New Hampshire field hockey team was upended, 4-2, by American University in Friday afternoon's season-opening game at Jacobs Complex. The two goals and four points matched career highs for Caron.

In her first collegiate start, sophomore goalkeeper Rachel Simkevich (Londonderry, N.H.) was credited with four saves. AU counterpart Fiona Minter stopped one shot, and the balanced Eagles' attack had four different goal scorers.

UP NEXT // NEXT HOME GAME

UNH continues its season-opening three-game road swing Sept. 1 (11 a.m.) at second-ranked University of Maryland.
The Wildcats' home opener is Sept. 8 against College of the Holy Cross. Start time is 1 p.m. at Memorial Field.

1^st QUARTER

The teams played to a scoreless opening 15 minutes in which the home team recorded a 3-1 shot advantage.
American opened with three shots in the opening four minutes, but two were off target and Simkevich stopped the other.
The WilAUats threatened in the 11^th minute with consecutive penalty corners, the second of which produced a shot wide by Bloem van den Brekel (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

2^nd QUARTER

UNH's Raspante was denied by Minter at 24:45, but that lead to a penalty corner. The direct shot off the stick of Nicky Bajus (Lions Bay, British Columbia) went wide of the cage.
American was held without a shot or corner in the quarter until the final 30 seconds. Simkevich denied Hannah Moser but then the home team earned a corner with 13 second remaining and converted it into a goal.
The Eagles took a 1-0 lead into halftime when Noor Coenen scored a penalty-corner goal with six seconds on the clock.

3^rd QUARTER

Moser struck at 36:29 and Gaby de Kock scored 95 seconds later – off a rebound on a corner – to quickly extend the lead to 3-0.
Isabelle Danahy (Chelmsford, Mass.) sent a long pass through AU's defense to Caron, who scored UNH's first goal of the 2019 season at 41:29 to trim the deficit to 3-1.
Neither team recorded a shot or corner the last 3:31 of the quarter.

4^th QUARTER

Simkevich denied de Kock in the 47^th minute, but Jette Dieckmann tipped in Atina Pagani's centering pass at 47:34 to reestablish a three-goal advantage, 4-1, at 47:34.
The 'Cats responded with pressure in the 52^nd minute that resulted in a goal. Kayla Sliz's (Ajax, Ontario) shot was blocked but resulted in a second penalty corner, and this time Caron put the ball into the cage to lift UNH within 4-2 at 51:19.
The teams combined for one shot the rest of the game, and that was a shot high of the crossbar by AU's Charllene Boshoff just 30 seconds after Caron's tally.

UNH NOTEBOOK

Freshmen Maura Verleg (Geldrop, Netherlands) and Jaiden Wittel (Stroudsburg, Pa.) were in the starting lineup.
Wittel recorded her first career point with an assist on Caron's goal.
Four other players made their WilAUat debuts – freshmen Emily Eckels (Arnold, Md.), Ava Mariani (Easton, Pa.) and Molly McAteer (Annapolis, Md.), as well as sophomore transfer Conner Allen (Centreville, Md.).
Caron was UNH's top goal scorer last year with eight. She tallied two goals and four points in the final game of the 2018 season.
Danahy has three career assists; her other two helpers were last season as a sophomore.

SHOTS: UNH 1-2-1-2–6. AU 4-2-4-3–13.

PENALTY CORNERS: UNH 2-1-0-2–5. AU 1-1-1-2–5.

GOALS
UNH (2) –Finn Caron (2)
AU (4) – Noor Coenen, Gaby de Kock, Jette Dieckmann, Hannah Moser

ASSISTS
UNH (2) – Isabelle Danahy, Jaiden Wittel
AU (1) – Atina Pagani

SAVES
UNH: Rachel Simkevich 1-1-1-1-4 (60:00; 4 GA) [loss]
AU: Fiona Minter 0-1-0-0–1 (60:00; 1 GA) [WIN]

DEFENSIVE SAVES
UNH (0)
AU (0)