The Wooster field hockey team had their most dominant performance since last year’s 7-0 win over Oberlin College against NCAC opponent Earlham College 9-0 at Richmond, Ind. last Saturday.
The Scots dominated Earlham (2-10, 0-9 NCAC) both offensively and defensively throughout the match, never relinquishing their dominance that began with the first whistle of the game and ended with the last.
The Scots led in shot attempts with an impressive 35-4 ratio and in penalty corners 17-3.
Wooster took the lead from the very start of the game when Amanda Artman ’10 scored the Scots’ first goal in the first minute of the game off of an assist from midfielder Nina Dine ’11.
A few minutes later Artman scored the second goal of the match off a pass from captain Kate Valora ’11. Stephanie Standera ’11 converted a penalty corner only a few minuets later to put the Scots up 3-0.
Before the end of the half Eileen Barrer ’11 and Isabelle Howes ’13 added two scores giving the Scot’s a 5-0 lead.† Howes’s goal came off of an assisst by ††††† Anna Regin ’14, her first career assist.
The second half proved to be just as one sided as the first when the Scots scored two goals within four minutes of returning to the field.
The first goal was scored by Nikki Sever ’14 and the second was scored by Clare Nelson-Johnson ’14. Laura German ’13 and Christine Goglia ’14 connected twice to† finish off the Scots’ night of offensive dominance with two goals in a 1:40 stretch of play with Goglia assisting German in both goals.
Offensively, Artman led the day with five points (two goals and one assit), German followed with two goals, while Barrer and Server both tallied one goal and one assist each.
The Wooster defense was also dominant throughout the game allowing† for only four shot attempts by Earlham.
All three of Wooster’s goalies, Liz Plumley ’13, Meredith Farley ’14, and Madalyn Myers ’12, who is fresh off the bench from an injury, saw playing time. In addition,† each goalie† recorded at least one save.
Earlham keeper Emma Treece managed an impressive 24 saves in the 9-0 loss.
Tonight the Fighting Scots will take on non-conference rival Transylvania University (1-7) at home at the John P. Papp Memorial Stadium at 7:30 p.m. under the lights.
Wooster will head on the road to face University of Rochester (4-6) on Oct. 17 in Rochester, NY and Ithaca College (4-5) on Oct. 18 in Ithaca, NY.
The Scots will return to Ohio to face NCAC opponent Denison University (5-8, 4-4 NCAC) in Denison, Ohio on Oct. 20 before returning home to challenge Kenyon College (6-8, 5-2 NCAC) for NCAC dominance on Oct. 23.
Additional Reporting for this article by Margaret Donnelly.