Box Score SCRANTON, PA (October 4, 2012) – The Arcadia University Field Hockey team rallied back with five unanswered goals after being down 2-0 to beat non-conference opponent Keystone College this afternoon 5-3 at Riverfront Sports Complex in Scranton. The win improves the Knights record 9-2, the best start in programs history.
Keystone's Megan Fry gave Keystone a 1-0 lead just 3:22 into Thursday's game by find the back of the cage after taking a feed from Hope Krolewski following a penalty corner. The Giants doubled their lead at the 17:05 mark as Brittany Cardona scored unassisted.
Arcadia got a goal back at the 19:44 mark with freshman
Jennie Kamel scoring off a senior
Lauren Altera assist before sophomore
Molly Goldstein tied it for the Knights just under three minutes later. Arcadia was then awarded a penalty stroke with just 18 seconds to play in the first half and freshman
Taylor Dalisera converted the stroke to give the Knights their first lead of the game.
Kamel's second goal of the game at 8:16 into the second half extended the Knights lead to 4-2 and Altera again assisted on Kamel's third tally of the afternoon with just over 19 and a half minutes to play to put the Giants in a three-goal deficit.
Keystone battled until the end and was rewarded with 1:18 to play when Hope Krolewski rifled home a shot for her 11
th goal of the season.
The Knights, who held a 20-9 advantage in shots for the game, got two saves from freshman
Mia De Plato who earned the win while senior
Sarah Baumgardner made one stop in the final 16:59 in goal for Arcadia.
Nichole Blank and Amy Denmon
split time equally in Keystone's cage, with Blank making four saves in the first half and Denmon turning aside two shots in the second half.
The Knights will go back to conference play now as they travel to Hood College on Sunday to take on the Blazers at 1 PM.
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