Drew Bridges vs St. John Fisher 090724
Ryan Smith
3
St. John Fisher SJF (0-3)
4
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN (1-2)
St. John Fisher SJF
(0-3)
3
Final
4
Elizabethtown ETOWN
(1-2)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
St. John Fisher SJF 2 0 1 0 3
Elizabethtown ETOWN 1 1 0 2 4

Game Recap: Field Hockey |

Bridges completes field hockey's comeback win with late goal over St. John Fisher

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- Junior Drew Bridges scored with just over a minute left in Saturday's 4-3 win over St. John Fisher to complete the Elizabethtown College field hockey team's comeback over the Cardinals. Bridges was one of four different goal scorers in the game for the Blue Jays.

St. John Fisher wasted no time getting out in front with a goal 53 seconds into the game. The Cardinals then went ahead by two by the 6:20 mark of the first.

The Jays showed no quit and eventually got one back off the stick of Hannah Long. Bridges played the ball into the circle and Long redirected the ball into the cage for her first of the season.

St. John Fisher was right back at it to begin the second as they had the Jays pinned back and racked up five penalty corners in the first three minutes, but Angelina Giglio-Tos made a few saves to keep it at 2-1.

Later in the second, Bridges was impeded in the circle and a stroke was called. Rachel Troutman stepped up to the spot and slung a ball high left center to make it 2-2 with under five minutes to go before the half. The game would go into the break tied 2-2.

The Cardinals regained their lead a little over two minutes into the third. Their goal came a few moments after Sarah Woods cleared the ball off the line.

Bridges and Meadow Keet has chances saved by Morgan Parrinello, who came on to start the third quarter for SJF. The Cardinals led 3-2 after three.

Giglio-Tos made what would turn out to be a key save in the first six minutes of the fourth as her sliding stop negated a chance for Audrey Grieb. 

At the other end, the Blue Jays converted an opportunity thanks to Riley Stephan, who pounced on a cross from Mia Fino with a little under two minutes to play in regulation. That tied the game at 3-3. Etown came right back as Bridges took on her defender to get into the circle, spun, and was able to backhand a shot through Parrinello and into the cage to put Elizabethtown in front for the first, and final, time.

The defense was able to keep the ball out of their own circle and EC ran out the clock for their first win of the season and the first for head coach Grace Hardy.

Elizabethtown will play at Franklin & Marshall on Wednesday, September 11.
 
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