Lincoln Plews
Senior Staff Writer
The Fighting Scots field hockey team played three games this past week, beating Washington and Jefferson College 3-2 in a mid-week away game last Wednesday before coming home to smash Earlham 6-0 on Saturday. They dropped their final game to DePauw 1-0 on Sunday. Wooster now stands at 3-4 on the season (2-2 NCAC).
Washington and Jefferson struck first in the game on Wednesday, with the Presidents’ Catherine Beaudoin scoring off the rebound of a blocked shot 18 minutes into the game. Wooster struck back 10 minutes later, as Clare Nelson-Johnson ’13 threaded a shot through the legs of W&J’s goalie to tie the game at 1-1. The half was not over for Wooster, however, as Taylor Thorp ’15 knocked in a goal off an assist from Nikki Sever ’14 to put the Scots up 2-1 with only 33 seconds left before the break.
In addition to her assist, Sever also scored what would prove to be the critical goal of the game when she knocked in a shot off a corner to give Wooster breathing room with a 3-1 advantage and only 12 minutes remaining.
Beaudoin scored her second goal off a rebound just a minute later, but Wooster held its 3-2 advantage for the rest of the game and came away with the victory.
Wooster carried the momentum from this win home with them, thrashing Earlham 6-0 on Saturday. The Scots outshot the 0-4 Quakers 28-2 in the game, never allowing a shot to challenge goalkeeper Carrie Mount ’15.
Nelson-Johnson netted two goals for the Scots, while Isabelle Howes ’13, Kate Brondyk ‘16, Sever, and Abby Szlachta ’16 each added one goal apiece. Wooster dominated the first half, taking a nearly insurmountable 5-0 lead into the break and adding one more goal before the final whistle to secure the 6-0 victory.
The Scots’ game against the 5-1 (3-0 in NCAC) DePauw Tigers was much more of a defensive battle, with the Tigers eventually prevailing 1-0.
Neither team scored in the first half, but DePauw’s Margaret Ellis would break the tie with only 16 minutes remaining in the game when she knocked in a goal off an assist from teammate Chelsea Cutler.
This would prove to be the only goal of the game, as Wooster’s final shot by Nelson-Johnson ’13 with just three minutes remaining was saved by the DePauw goalkeeper to secure the Tiger’s win.
DePauw outshot Wooster 11-4 in the game, but Mount kept her team alive with an impressive seven saves.
The Scots played Ohio Wesleyan on the road on Wednesday after press time. They will host Kenyon next Thursday at 4:30 p.m. at John P. Papp Stadium.