Second Half Comeback Leads Bears Over Gulls

Box Score

BRIDGEWATER, Mass. -- After falling behind 2-0 by halftime, Bridgewater State's field hockey team scored five unanswered goals and beat visting Endicott 5-3 in non-conference field hockey action on Thursday night. The Bears improve to 10-3 on the season while Endicott drops to 5-8 and is beaten for the first time in four tries.

Defender Meghan Leary (Hampton Falls, N.H.) scored her first collegiate goal fifteen minutes in to give the Gulls a 1-0 lead against Bridgewater State, who has now won nine games in a row. Hannah Thornberg (Oakland, Maine) collected the assist for her team-leading 22nd point.

Melissa Enright (York Beach, Maine) doubled Endicott's advantage just over the half-hour mark when she converted a penalty stroke for her sixth goal of the year.

In a period of thirteen minutes, the hosts had scored five unanswered goals and seized control of the game, starting just five minutes into the second half. Breanna Clement (Pittsfield, Maine) and Shelby Farland (Fiskdale, Mass.) each had a goal and an assist while freshman Emma Delaney (Townsend, Mass.) scored her first collegiate goal.

Freshman Emily Sawchuck (Cumberland, Maine) added her eighth goal of the year with just 13 seconds left to play, after taking a pass from Taylor Matties (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.).

Each team fired fifteen shots, but Endicott has a substantial 17-8 advantage in penalty corners.

Taylor Teixeira (Exeter, N.H.) played the first fifty-five minutes of the game and made five stops, but allowed four goals to take the loss and fall to 5-7. Freshman Lizetta Solarik (Carmel, N.Y.) made one stop in the last 14 and a half minutes.

For the Bears, junior Cassie Johansen (Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.) made eight stops and improved to 10-3.

The Gulls will return to conference action on Homecoming this Saturday with a huge Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) matchup against the \#19 team in the country, University of New England. The Gulls are 4-1 in conference play, to sit in second place behind the Nor'easters (5-0). Bridgewater Sate will return to action in the Little East, where they are 5-2, when they host UMass Dartmouth Saturday at noon.