Poulakis Tallies Goal and Two Assists in 3-1 Win vs. Stanford

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DURHAM, N.H. – Sophomore Nicole Poulakis (Ajax, Ontario) tallied the first goal of the game followed by two assists to help the University of New Hampshire field hockey team conquer the University of Stanford, 3-1, on Friday afternoon at Memorial Field.

Leah Glidden (Kittery, Maine) scored the second goal for the Wildcats while Kathelijne Knuttel (Groningen, Netherlands) scored the third and final goal for UNH. Goalie Jemma Woods (Frimley, England) had five saves.

Anna Ghuliani scored for Stanford, assisted by Star Horlock. Starting goalie Kendall Dowd made three saves and allowed two goals; she was charged with the loss. Daisy Ford stopped six shots; she was pulled the final 2:04 in favor of an extra field player.

UNH now has a record 4-2 overall, including 3-0 at home and 1-0 in America East, while Stanford is 1-5, 0-1 AE.

UP NEXT

New Hampshire plays another home game Sept. 17 at 12 p.m. vs UC Davis. The game will be held on Memorial Field.

FIRST QUARTER

Poulakis, assisted by Addison MacNeil (Brentwood, N.H.), scored off a corner at 4:30 to give the Wildcats an early lead. MacNeil's shot from the top-left side was redirected into the cage by Poulakis.
UNH outshot the Cardinal, 4-1, and lead in corners at 2-1.

SECOND QUARTER

Ghuliani tied at the game at 21:07 off an assist by Star Horlock.
At 29:41 into the half, Glidden takes back the lead for the 'Cats. Poulakis intercepted the ball deep on the left side and charged toward the left post, where she flicked a pass to the front of the cage and Glidden swept the ball inside the open right post.

THIRD QUARTER

Knuttel, also assisted by Poulakis, scored at 42:17. Poulakis corralled the entry pass from Lindsay Lee (Eindhoven, Netherland) in the middle of the circle and pushed the ball past Ford toward the left post, where Knuttel's redirection went into the open cage.
UNH recorded the advantage in both shots (6-1) and corners (2-0) in the third quarter.

FOURTH QUARTER

Stanford earned a corner at 51:41 but Woods stopped Scout Butler's shot to preserve the two-goal lead.
The Cardinal pulled ford at 57:56 but UNH did not allow another shot on goal the rest of the way to secure the victory.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

UNH beat Stanford in shot attempts, 14-11, and that included 12-6 on goal.
The teams tied with corners at 4-4.

UNH NOTEBOOK

Poulakis matched her career high of two assists for the second time this season.
Friday's game marked the second time this season Poulakis factored in every UNH goal; she also scored or assisted on all four Wildcat goals vs. Ball State.
Poulakis now has a team-high four assists this season; she is second in points (12) and tied for second in goals (four).
Knuttel extended her goal scoring streak to three games; she has a goal in 4 of 6 games this season.
She is tied with Poulakis for second on the squad in goals.
UNH has scored 3+ goals in 5 of 6 games.

SERIES NOTEBOOK

The Wildcats have an overall record of 5-7 vs. Stanford University.

COACH'S QUOTES, UNH head coach Robin Balducci
From my perspective, regardless of score, it was a great game. I thought we played a great team game. A lot of the areas we've focused on, we hit today. I'm just really, really pleased with the quality of our play as a group. We had a lot of great individual performances as well, which is exciting.

That's the thing with us. If we're playing good hockey we've got many dangerous players and I think it's hard to shut us down.

Kathelijne has been really solid as a youngster. Her skills, her receiving is spot on and she is able to make things happen. She's physical and she'll go to the ground for a ball.

Stanford is a good, tough team so they started coming at us a bit in the end. But we stayed fairly composed. Our defense remained solid and that's a big step for us with the youth in our backfield.

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