Woods Records Nine Saves in 3-0 Loss to Stanford

Wednesday, March 24

Durham, N.H.

2 PM

University of New Hampshire

(4-3, 1-2AE)

Stanford

(3-0, 3-0AE)

Stanford

New Hampshire

Photo by: Larissa Biette

3/24/2021 6:14:00 PM | Field Hockey

Box Score

DURHAM, N.H. -- Sophomore Jemma Woods (Frimley, England) recorded nine saves but the University of New Hampshire field hockey team was defeated 3-0 by Stanford University in Wednesday afternoon's America East conference matchup at Memorial Field.

Woods kept Stanford scoreless through the first half despite being bombarded by 11 shots, eight of which were on goal.

Stanford scored three goals in the second half, two of which were in the latter part of the fourth quarter. Corinne Zanolli led the offense with a goal and an assist. Goalie Hannah Santos made one save to record the shutout.

UNH falls to 4-3 overall and 1-2 in America East, and is scheduled to play at the University of Maine on March 28 (1 p.m.). Stanford remains unbeaten at 3-0 both overall and in the conference.

FIRST QUARTER

Both teams were scoreless in the first quarter despite Stanford controlling the pace of the game and generating a 5-0 shot advantage and 2-1 edge in penalty corners.
Woods stopped all four of the Cardinal shots on goal.
In the fourth minute, Stanford was awarded consecutive corners. The first generated a direct shot by Zanolli but Woods dove to her right to make the stick save.
UNH earned a corner with 1:18 remaining in the quarter. The battery of sophomore Jaiden Wittel (Stroudsburg, Pa.) and senior captain Isabelle Danahy (Chelmsford, Mass.) set up the direct shot by freshman Rosalie Post (The Hague, Netherlands), but her high strike that went into the cage was immediately waved off by the referee.
In the closing seconds, Lily Croddick's reverse-stick from the top of the circle was sticked away by Woods.

SECOND QUARTER

The game remained scoreless at the end of the first half.
The Wildcats were able to draw one corner but were unsuccessful finding the back of the cage.
Woods remained a force to be reckoned with in the net by keeping Stanford scoreless on six shots, four of which were on goal.
Stanford earned a corner in the 20th minute. Zanolli dribble from the top of the circle to the right side, where her low drive was sticked aside by Woods' stick.
The Cardinal generated another corner moments later, and this time Zanolli fired a direct shot from the top of the circle that was stopped by Woods.
With 3:30 remaining in the quarter, Fenella Scutt's rising shot on a reverse stick was blockered away by Woods.
The Wildcats were awarded a corner in the closing minute but did not record a shot.

THIRD QUARTER

With 4:50 left in the third period, Stanford broke onto the scoreboard with an unassisted goal by Frances Carstens, who she dribbled between a pair of Wildcats at the top of the circle and, from the left side, stuck a rising reverse-stick shot into the cage.
The Wildcats applied more pressure offensively with two shots, one on goal.
UNH's third corner of the game came with 2:08 on the clock in the third. Freshman Angela Lee (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) inserted a short corner to senior Conner Allen (Centreville, Md.), whose low shot was stopped by Santo's stacked leg pads.
Junior Tori Palumbo (Ayer, Mass.) swept the rebound from the middle of the circle toward the left post, where Lee lifted a shot over Santos but the ball trickled wide of the far post.

FOURTH QUARTER

Stanford closed out the game with two goals in the last quarter with Juli Porto striking in the 57th minute and Zanolli scoring with eight seconds left.
The Wildcats were again able to get one corner but could not convert in the 50th minute. Lee once again made the short insert to Allen, who this time slipped a pass across the circle to senior captain Bloem van den Brekel (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and her shot from the top-right side was blocked by a charging defender.
Woods recorded another save, but Stanford's offensive pressure proved to be too much.
Zanolli dribbled down the left side and lifted a pass across the goalmouth that Porto knocked out of midair into the open cage at 56:18.
Kaylie Mings dribbled along the left endline and her centering pass was tipped in by Zanolli at 59:52 to close the scoring.

GAME NOTEBOOK

The Wildcats were outshot by Stanford 19-3, including 12-1 shots on goal.
The Cardinal had a 6-4 edge in penalty corners.

UNH NOTEBOOK

Woods' nine saves was one less than her career high of 10 established earlier this season against Boston College.
Six of seven UNH's games have ended in a shutout. The Wildcats have shut out three opponents and they have been shut out three times.
UNH is now 3-2 at Memorial Field.

SERIES NOTEBOOK

UNH now has a 3-6 lifetime record against Stanford.
The Wildcats won the previous meeting, 3-2, at Memorial Field in the2019 season.
Four of the past six meetings have been one-goal games.