The fourth-ranked University of Louisville field hockey team lost a 3-2 back-and-forth match at No. 12 Syracuse Friday evening at J.S. Coyne Stadium.
A match that had three lead changes and two ties with all five goals scored in the second half. Syracuse outshot Louisville 13-9 with a 12-5 advantage in shots on goal while the Cardinals held a 6-5 edge in penalty corners. Sasha Elliott tied a season high with nine saves with six of them coming in the final 30 minutes. i
Not a lot of offense in the first 30 minutes, as the teams played through a scoreless first half in which Louisville held a 4-3 edge in shots and a 2-1 lead in penalty corners with Elliott collecting three saves and Brooke Borzymowski picking up one stop for the Orange.
Cuse (13-3, 3-2 ACC) struck first, in front of the cage resulting in Quirine Comans receiving a pass from outside the circle and firing a shot past a sliding Elliott to put the Orange on top 1-0 with under four minutes left in the third quarter.
UofL roared right back two minutes later. Mattie Tabor sent a pass from the top right side of the circle to the left post and connected with a diving Katie Schneider. Schneider tapped it in and evened the score at 1-1.
Louisville took the lead in early the fourth quarter. Aimee Plumb was awarded a penalty stroke and sent it past the Syracuse goalkeeper to make the score 2-1 just two minutes into the frame.
The Orange responded with a goal by Willemijn Boogert to tie the contest midway through the fourth quarter.
The game-winning goal came with four minutes left to play. A breakaway shot by Charlotte de Vries was stopped by Elliott, but Comans dove in for the rebound and sent it into the goal for her second goal of the game.
Elliott was lifted for an extra field player with 2:48, and the Cardinals had one last chance to score, drawing a penalty corner with 33 seconds on the clock, but Louisville was unable to take advantage and the final score stood at 3-2.
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A match that had three lead changes and two ties with all five goals scored in the second half. Syracuse outshot Louisville 13-9 with a 12-5 advantage in shots on goal while the Cardinals held a 6-5 edge in penalty corners. Sasha Elliott tied a season high with nine saves with six of them coming in the final 30 minutes. i
Not a lot of offense in the first 30 minutes, as the teams played through a scoreless first half in which Louisville held a 4-3 edge in shots and a 2-1 lead in penalty corners with Elliott collecting three saves and Brooke Borzymowski picking up one stop for the Orange.
Cuse (13-3, 3-2 ACC) struck first, in front of the cage resulting in Quirine Comans receiving a pass from outside the circle and firing a shot past a sliding Elliott to put the Orange on top 1-0 with under four minutes left in the third quarter.
UofL roared right back two minutes later. Mattie Tabor sent a pass from the top right side of the circle to the left post and connected with a diving Katie Schneider. Schneider tapped it in and evened the score at 1-1.
Louisville took the lead in early the fourth quarter. Aimee Plumb was awarded a penalty stroke and sent it past the Syracuse goalkeeper to make the score 2-1 just two minutes into the frame.
The Orange responded with a goal by Willemijn Boogert to tie the contest midway through the fourth quarter.
The game-winning goal came with four minutes left to play. A breakaway shot by Charlotte de Vries was stopped by Elliott, but Comans dove in for the rebound and sent it into the goal for her second goal of the game.
Elliott was lifted for an extra field player with 2:48, and the Cardinals had one last chance to score, drawing a penalty corner with 33 seconds on the clock, but Louisville was unable to take advantage and the final score stood at 3-2.
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