Box Score COLLEGE FIELD
HOCKEY FINAL SCORE
Tufts 2, Bowdoin 0
At Brunswick, ME
Friday, October 30, 2009
Game
Box Score
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Margie Scholtes scored her third penalty-stroke
goal of the season
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BRUNSWICK, Me. -- The Tufts University field hockey team scored
a pair of second-half goals to take a 2-0 victory over Bowdoin in
the regular season finale for both teams on Friday. The
fifth-ranked Jumbos, who already had secured the second seed in the
conference tournament, improve to 13-1 (8-1 NESCAC) while the
12th-ranked Polar Bears dip to 9-5 (4-5 NESCAC) and grabbed the
sixth seed.
Tufts and Trinity both finished with identical conference
records of 8-1. In head-to-head competition, Trinity defeated Tufts
2-1 in overtime to earn the No. 1 seed in the conference
tournament. The Jumbos will host seventh-seed Wesleyan in a
first-round game on Sunday at 1:00 pm. Bowdoin will travel to
Amherst for a 1:00 pm opening round game on November 1.
Friday's Tufts-Bowdoin contest was a rematch of the 2008 NCAA
Championship Game, won by Bowdoin 3-2 in overtime. The Jumbos had
defeated Bowdoin 4-3 in Brunswick last fall to earn the #1 seed in
the conference tournament. However, the Jumbos lost to the Polar
Bears in the conference and national championship games. On Friday,
Tufts was the better team, also winning shots 11-3 and penalty
corners 8-2.
After a scoreless first period, Tufts notched an early tally in
the second period to grab the lead. In transition, junior
Tamara Brown (Annandale, VA) looked to feed a pass
to a teammate on the far post, but a Bowdoin defender reached to
block it, deflecting it past goaltender Emily Neilson and into the
cage for a 1-0 lead. The Jumbos extended their lead late in the
half, when a penalty shot was awarded to senior co-captain
Margi Scholtes (Grosse Pointe, MI). Improving to a
perfect three for three on penalty strokes this season, Scholtes
deposited a shot inside the left post, tipping off the pads of
Neilson into the net to close out the scoring.
Neilson ended with four saves for Bowdoin while sophomore
Marianna Zak (Concord, MA) stopped one shot in
goal for the Jumbos. The shutout was the third in a row for Tufts,
and the eighth of 14 regular-season games.
Coach Tina McDavitt's Tufts squad is now 17-1 in NESCAC over the
last two seasons, including last year's 9-0 finish. The Jumbos are
24-3 against league foes over the last three seasons.
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