Box Score MIDDLETOWN, R.I. - The Salve Regina University field hockey team scored twice in the first and fourth quarters to defeat visiting Wheaton College 4-1 in non-conference action Thursday evening.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP
Final: Salve Regina 4, Wheaton 1
Records: Salve Regina (1-0), Wheaton (0-1)
All-Time Series: Wheaton leads 9-7; Salve Regina has won six in a row.
SUMMARY:
- Ashley Harvey (Newmarket, N.H.) scored her first collegiate goal, and the first of the season for Salve Regina, to give the Seahawks a 1-0 lead at 11:48.
- Hana Bevilacqua followed that up with her first career goal for a 2-0 Seahawks edge through one quarter.
- Neither team scored in the second quarter.
- Macey Poitras-Cote cut into the Seahawks lead with her first of the year at 32:52.
- The Seahawks scored twice in the fourth quarter; freshman Georgia Costello (North Easton, Mass.) notched her first career goal and Shannon Kennedy put a bow on things for the Seahawks at 52:43 for the final margin.
NOTEWORTHY:
- Casey Febus (Soudertown, Pa.) made four saves to improve to 1-0 between the pipes.
- Emma Lapreziosa (Bowdoinham, Maine) stopped 10 shots in the losing effort to fall to 0-1.
- Salve Regina outshot the Lyons 21-5.
- The Seahawks held a 11-6 edge in corners.
ON THE HORIZON:
Salve Regina plays at Johnson & Wales University on Saturday, Sept. 3 at 3:00 pm.
