ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- Anna Mostoller finished with the goal that mattered, but
Grace Hardy and
Sydney Aguilar also posted goals for the Elizabethtown College field hockey team in its 3-0 shutout win over Goucher Sunday afternoon at Wolf Field.
Megan Meyer had a pair of assists for the Blue Jays and
Angelina Giglio-Tos needed just two saves to earn the shutout.
Giglio-Tos made a diving stop early in the first quarter as Goucher (0-6, 0-1 Landmark) pressured first. Hannah Washburn slung a ball toward the left post off a corner play that the freshman goalie alertly tracked and got down to keep it away from Amita Chatterjee.
Elizabethtown (4-4, 1-0 Landmark) got going near the end of the quarter with a couple penalty corners of their own. The Jays earned their third one of the quarter as time expired and were allowed to see it through.
Grace Hussey sent in the corner to the top of the circle, where the ball was received by Meyer. The freshman passed to her left to Mostoller, who lined up her shot and drove it lower left, past the Gophers' goalie and into the cage for her first of the season that gave Etown a 1-0 lead heading into the second.
Goucher goalie Devin Brashear made a number of important saves in the second quarter to keep her team within a goal. Moments after coming on the field as a sub,
Allison Strohman drilled a shot just inside the circle that slammed off the right pad of Brashear. Meyer's shot a few minutes later off a corner was stopped by Brashear as well. Hussey had a chance late in the quarter, but was denied.
Grace Hardy clanked a shot off the post with 13 seconds left in the half.
Daryn Carter lofted a ball toward earlier on a corner play that ricocheted off the crossbar and back into play. Elizabethtown led 1-0 at the half and was outshooting Goucher, 8-2.
Brashear made it another clean quarter in the third, not allowing the Blue Jays a second goal, though they were coming close to it. She denied Hardy twice in the span of 35 seconds.
Riley Stephan got in on Brashear with under three minutes in the third, but from a tight angle, couldn't get the Jays' second goal.
Etown earned an early corner in the fourth, and after a scramble at the goal mouth, a stroke was called. As she did against Eastern, Hardy stepped up and converted for the Blue Jays, her team-leading sixth goal of the season, to make it 2-0.
Aguilar had back-to-back chances stopped by Brashear, but the junior would get her well-earned goal minutes later. Her insert on a corner went out to Meyer, who slung the ball back down low as Aguilar made her way back into play. The Townsend, Del. native collected the pass from Meyer and stuffed it into the cage for her second of the season with 47 seconds left in the game.
Brashear ended with 12 saves in the game. Giglio-Tos had two and recorded her second shutout of the season.
The Blue Jays will head to Wilkes on Wednesday, September 29, at 7:30 p.m.
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