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FH Recap Nov. 9
2024
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Bentley BEN (13-8)
3
Winner Saint Anselm STA (16-5)
Bentley BEN
(13-8)
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Final
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Saint Anselm STA
(16-5)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 F
Bentley BEN 1 1 0 0 0 0 2
Saint Anselm STA 1 0 1 0 0 1 3

Game Recap: Field Hockey |

Bentley Drops Overtime Heartbreaker in NE10 Finals to Saint Anselm 3-2

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Bentley went all the way to double overtime of the NE10 Championship finals but dropped a heartbreaker to Saint Anselm 3-2.

Maggie Burchill scored the winning goal with 1:47 left in double overtime to give the Hawks the NE10 championship and the league's automatic bid to the NCAAs.

Bentley, the #4 seed, arrived to the finals after beating the #1 seed Assumption in the semifinals on Friday. They will await word on an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament during the selection show tonight at 9:30. They were ranked 4th in the East Region in the most recent rankings.

Graice Moore and Sheila Mullins from Bentley were named to the All-Championship Team.

Bentley took a 1-0 lead 6:37 into the first quarter on McKenzie Carey's 10th goal of the season.

The play started with Bentley pushing the ball down the field. A pass from Isabella Tuccio saw Moore elude two Hawks defenders and as she approached the circle, fed a pass on the cage that Carey first deflected and then tipped-in herself for the goal.

Saint Anselm tied the game less than two minutes later on a goal by Marissa Politano from a penalty corner.

But the Falcons responded and took the lead back at 2-1, 5:05 into the second quarter on Moore's 15th goal of the season.

Bentley started with possession in its attacking end following a free hit. Nina Husak fired a pass towards the circle that Moore gained possession of and after entering the circle unleased a backhander that beat the Hawks keeper for the goal.

A little over seven minutes into the third quarter, Avery Frommer came up with two defensive saves to deny the Hawks a scoring chance off a penalty corner.

Bentley followed that by denying the Hawks on seven straight penalty corner attempts in a span of several minutes. But on the eighth attempt the Hawks scored when Burchill jammed the ball in off a scramble in front of the cage to make the score 2-2.

The teams then went back and forth over the rest of regulation and overtime until the goal by Burchill.

Bentley's record goes to 13-8 on the season.
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