Box Score
MEDFORD - Senior co-captain Taylor Dyer (Windham, NH) scored on a penalty stroke at 11:16 of the first overtime to give the ninth-ranked Tufts field hockey team an exciting 3-2 win over #14 Trinity in a NESCAC game at Bello Field on Sunday afternoon.
In seven-on-seven overtime play, Trinity had threatened first by earning a pair of penalty corners. Jumbo senior goalie Marianna Zak (Concord, MA) made saves on shots by Bantams Payson Sword (Princeton, NJ) and Hadley Duncan (Rye, NY).
At the other end, the Jumbos were awarded a penalty stroke after Trinity goalie Gina Dinallo (West Hartford, CT) dove on the ball interfering with a shot attempt by Jumbo junior Lia Sagerman (LaJolla, CA). Dyer converted her third penalty-stroke goal of the year for the 3-2 win. It was the second straight day that she scored on a penalty stroke, including yesterday at Amherst.
Tufts and Trinity started with a bang, combining for three goals in the first nine minutes of action. Tufts perfectly executed a pair of penalty corner attempts to take a 2-1 lead. On the first, junior Rachel Gerhardt's (Worcester, MA) strike found junior Missy Karp (Berwyn, PA) at the far post and she scored at 31:15.
Three minutes later, Trinity tied it after junior Alanna Capasso (Weston, MA) stick-handled through the Tufts defense and passed to senior Caroline Snite (Philadelphia, PA). She scored with 28:09 on the clock and it was 1-1.
The Jumbos made it two for two on corners at 26:46 when Dyer's strike was redirected at the right post by Sagerman for her fifth goal of the season and a 2-1 Tufts lead. That score remained until halftime.
Trinity applied excellent pressure early in the second half. Dyer made a defensive save on a Bantam corner, and Zak saved shots by junior Hayley Thompson (Ipswich, MA) and sophomore Paula Shea (Longmeadow, MA) after another Trinity corner.
The Bantams would tie the game at 2-2 as the result of another corner when Duncan scored off her own rebound at 14:40.
Tufts was awarded three penalty corners at the end of regulation, but Dinallo saved the best bid of the sequence by Gerhardt and the game went to OT.
The Jumbos salvaged a weekend split of NESCAC games after losing 3-1 at Amherst yesterday. They improved to 6-2 overall and 3-2 in the league. The Jumbos finished with advantages of 18-12 in shots and 10-9 in corners. Zak recorded six saves.
The Bantams also split a pair of conference games over the weekend following their 1-0 overtime win against Colby on Saturday. The loss ended a five-game winning streak for Trinity, which is now 6-2 overall and 5-2 in NESCAC. Dinallo made seven saves.
Tufts next hosts Springfield in non-conference action on Thursday at 5 pm. Trinity plays at Wellesley next Saturday beginning at noon.
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