GLENSIDE, Pa. – The third-seeded Arcadia University field hockey team will travel to second-seeded Messiah College Wednesday night for a 7 p.m. MAC Commonwealth Conference Championship Tournament Semifinal match.
TICKET INFORMATION: Tickets to all MAC Championship games will be $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, and $2 for students with proper ID.
LIVE COVERAGE: Fans unable to attend today's game at Messiah can follow the entire match through live stats provided by the host Falcons by
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TOURNAMENT FIELD: The tournament started with Monday's play-in game between fourth-seeded Lebanon Valley College and fifth-seeded Stevenson University, which saw the host Dutchmen record a 3-2 win that will send to top-seeded Elizabethtown College Wednesday for a 3 p.m. semifinal match. The winner of that game will face the winner of the Arcadia-Messiah match Saturday at the highest remaining seed. The winner of the championship match will earn the conference's automatic berth in the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament.
ABOUT ARCADIA: The Knights enter the postseason with an overall record of 14-5 and earned the No. 3 seed with a 6-2 conference record, marking the most conference wins for the program since joining the MAC in 2007. Arcadia is riding a six-game winning streak, which has seen the Knights record three shutouts in their last four matches. Sophomore
Debbie Wolfe (West Milford, N.J.) leads the team in scoring with 11 goals and two assists for 24 points. She is closely trailed by junior
Molly Goldstein (Oak Ridge, N.J.) and sophomore
Taylor Dalisera (Millersville, Md.) who have 23 points each. Dalisera has nine goals with five assists for the season, while Goldstein has six goals and a team-best 11 assists. Freshman
Brittany Hodson (Highesville, Md.) is 14-5 in goal with five shutouts, a 1.08 goals against average and a .800 save percentage.
ABOUT MESSIAH: The six-time defending conference champion Falcons, who are ranked 15th in the current National Field Hockey Coaches Association Coaches' Poll, enter the tournament with an overall record of 13-5 for the season and locked up the No. 2 seed with a 7-1 conference record. Their lone conference loss was a 3-1 setback at Elizabethtown. Messiah enters the tournament having lost three of its last four matches, with losses to the Blue Jays, ninth-ranked The College of New Jersey (4-1) and 11th-ranked William Smith College (4-3). Freshman Moriah Pfautz (Ephrata, Pa.) leads the team in scoring with 20 goals and four assists for 44 points. Brooke Sands is second on the team in scoring with nine goals and three assists, while junior Celina Nissley (Middletown,. Pa.) and sophomore Rachel Cox (Lancaster, Pa.) have 19 points each. Nissley had eight goals and three assists, while Cox has seven goals and five assists. Senior Molly Gebrowsky (Latrobe, Pa.) is 13-5 in goal with three shutouts, a 1.44 goals against average and a .760 save percentage.
LAST TIME THEY MET: Messiah pulled out a 2-1 win at Arcadia back on October 12. Pfautz scored both goals for the Falcons, putting them ahead 1-0 in the 46th-minute and then netting the game-winner in the 63rd-minute. Dalisera scored for the Knights in the 59th-minute to tie the score at 1-1. Messiah had a 12-6 advantage in shots, with a narrower 6-4 margin in shots on goal. Arcadia had an 8-7 advantage in penalty corners.
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