New England College: TWO EARLY GOALS LIFT FIELD HOCKEY PAST VISITING WELLS COLLEGE

Recap, photo courtesy of New England College

Henniker, N.H. – New England College would use two first half goals to beat the visiting Wells College Express 2-1 in field hockey action Monday afternoon.

With the win the Pilgrims improve to 4-10 on the season, while the loss drops the Express to 4-10 overall.

SCORING

NEC would open the scoring just 3:39 into the game as Abigail Arsenault would put in a nice feed from Aislinn deHorsey to record her third goal of the season. The Pilgrims would then make it 2-0 in the 17th minute as Kayla Donahue would rebound in a shot that was originally turned away by Wells keeper Kelsey Kokosa.  Wells would cut the lead to 2-1 in the 25th minute as the Express would get off a flurry of shots and Nicole Sales would come through with a goal off a scrum in front of the net.

Neither team would muster a second half goal as the Pilgrims held the slight advantage in both shots and penalty corners, out shooting the Express 8-7 and hold the 6-5 advantage in corners.

GOALTENDING

NEC's Michaela Clark picked up the win in net for the Pilgrims finishing with six saves. 

Kelsey Kokosa recorded two saves in the loss for Wells. 

QUOTE FROM THE COACH

"The team really gutted it out today and we had different team members stepped up their performance.  It is a good win to head into an important conference game this weekend," head coach Kristen Gillis

WHAT'S NEXT 

New England College will return to action on Saturday, Oct. 15 when they travel to take on conference opponent Husson University.

Wells College will return action on Tuesday, Oct. 11 when they close out the road trip at Castleton University.