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Field Hockey Weekly Release - Week 11
Complete Ivy League Field Hockey Release in pdf format
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The 2010 Ivy League field
hockey season came to a close this past weekend with Princeton
winning the League title by posting a third consecutive 7-0 record
in Ivy play. The Tigers, who claimed the outright title by downing
Penn on Friday night, have now won six straight Ivy League titles
and have earned at least a share of 16 of the past 17 Ivy
Championships.
Princeton clinched the title with a 10-0 win over Penn on Friday
night. Striker Kathleen Sharkey's three goals and
midfielder Michelle Cesan's two tallies led the
Tigers to the victory. Kieran Sweeney made ten
saves in the second half alone for the Quakers.
Saturday afternoon featured the final three games of Ivy play and
saw some closely contested battles as final positioning within the
Ivy standings was on the line.
Brown played host to Yale where a pair of first half goals by
Yale's Erica Borgo was negated by Brown goals from
Leslie Springmeyer and Abigail
Taft. With the score tied 2-2 late in the second half,
Brown sophomore Elara Mosquera lifted the Bears to
the win when she scored off a penalty corner at 64:45. The win gave
the Bears a share of fourth place, as Brown notched at least three
Ivy wins for the first time since 2005. Yale finished tied for
second with Cornell in the League standings and with 11 overall
wins, the Bulldogs posted consecutive double-digit win seasons for
the first time since 2002 and 2003.
Cornell was able to tie for second with Yale in the standings by
earning a 4-2 win at Dartmouth on Saturday. Catie De
Stio broke a 1-1 deadlock just after halftime and
Hannah Balleza netted an insurance tally five
minutes later to give the Big Red a 3-1 lead. Virginia Peish's
tally at 47:48 pulled the Big Green within one, but Cornell went on
to earn the 4-2 win. Meagan Vakiener made 13 saves
in the Dartmouth goal and the Big Green finished the season tied
for fourth with Columbia and Brown in the Ivy standings as all
three squads posted 3-4 marks in League play.
Columbia moved to 3-4 on the year with a win at Harvard on the
final day of play. Goals by Gabby Kozlowski and
Carson Christus in the game's first 20 minutes
gave the Lions a 2-0 lead and they held on for a 3-1 victory.
CO-PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Cornell senior forward Catie De Stio (Sea Cliff,
N.Y.) made the final game of her career a memorable one as she
scored the game-winning goal to lead the Big Red past Dartmouth,
4-2, on Marsha Dodson Field. The victory matched a school record
for wins in a season (11) and tied Cornell with Yale for second
place in the Ivy League.
With the goal, De Stio became Cornell's all-time career points
leader (94) as well as the Big Red's career game-winning goals
leader (12). De Stio's goal broke open a 1-1 game in the 42nd
minute when she took a cross-crease pass from Mallory
Bannon, pulled around a defender and ripped a fall-away
shot inside the near post to give Cornell a lead it would not
relinquish. On the defensive side of the ball, she also helped
neutralize the Dartmouth attack. De Stio was the last member of the
Big Red squad to earn Player of the Week honors, having done so on
Sept. 22, 2009.
De Stio's Weekly
Stats
1-1 GP/GS, 1 G, 0 A, 2 Pts., 3 Shots, 3 SOG, 1 GWG, Team: 1-0
CO-PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Junior striker Kathleen Sharkey (Moosic, Pa.)
scored three of Princeton's first six goals in a 10-0 win over Penn
on Friday night to secure a perfect Ivy League season for the
Tigers. Sharkey opened the scoring with an unassisted goal and then
added the Tigers third and sixth goals in the win. Her third goal
was her 31st of the season which sets a Princeton single season
record for goals, topping the previous best of 30 held by Ilvy
Friebe in the 2001 season. Sharkey also earned Ivy League Player of
the Week honors on Sept. 14.
Sharkey's Weekly
Stats
1-1 GP/GS, 3 G, 0 A, 6 Pts., 13 Shots, 9 SOG, 1 GWG, Team: 1-0
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Freshman forward Erica Borgo (Randolph, N.J.)
finished off her rookie season in style, scoring a pair of goals in
the Bulldogs' finale at Brown to claim the team lead in points (23)
and tie for the team lead in goals (8). It was her third
multiple-goal game of the season.
Borgo, who had eight points in the final four games, is the first
freshman to lead Yale in scoring since Amanda
Walton '02 did so in 1998 (18-3-39). Borgo also earned Ivy
League Rookie of the Week honors on Sept. 7.
Borgo's Weekly
Stats
1-1 GP/GS, 2G, 0A, 4 Pts., 3 Shots, 2 SOG, 0 GWG, Team: 0-1
HONOR ROLL
Hannah Balleza, Cornell, Fr., F (Severna Park,
Md.)
1-1 GP/GS, 1 G, 0 A, 2 Pts., 1 Shot, 1 SOG, 0 GWG, Team: 1-0
Amanda Bird, Princeton, Fr., B (West Vancouver,
B.C.)
1-1GP/GS, 1 G, 1 A, 3 Pts., 1 Shot, 1 SOG, 0 GWG, Team: 1-0
Chloe Keating, Harvard, Sr., F (Bryn Mawr,
Pa.)
1-1 GP/GS, 1 G, 0 A, 2 Pts., 1 Shot, 1 SOG, 0 GWG, Team: 0-1
Gabby Kozlowski, Columbia, So., F (Voorhees,
N.J.)
1-1 GP/GS, 1 G, 0 A, 2 Pts., 3 Shots, 2 SOG, 1 GWG, Team: 1-0
Torie Stearns, Brown, Fr., F (Rye, N.Y.)
1-1 GP/GS, 0 G, 1 A, 1 Pt., 3 Shots, 2 SOG, 0 GWG, Team: 1-0
Kieran Sweeney, Penn, Jr., GK (Philadelphia,
Pa.)
1-0 GP/GS, 35:00 Min., 6 GA, 12.00 GAA, 10 SVS, .625 SV%, 0 Sho,
0-1
Abigail Taft, Brown, Jr., F (Shaker Heights,
Ohio)
1-1 GP/GS, 1 G, 1 A, 3 Pts., 2 Shots, 2 SOG, 0 GWG, Team: 1-0
