Senior Ava Edwards blasts a shot versus Elizabethtown College on John Makuvek Field.
Senior Ava Edwards blasts a shot versus Elizabethtown College on John Makuvek Field.
October 13, 2021

Greyhounds Tie School Record with 10th Win of 2021 by Defeating Elizabethtown

BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- The Moravian University field hockey squad tied the program record with its tenth win of the season as the Greyhounds defeated visiting Elizabethtown College, 5-1, under the lights on John Makuvek Field Wednesday evening in Landmark Conference action as the Hounds captured their sixth consecutive victory.

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BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- The Moravian University field hockey squad tied the program record with its tenth win of the season as the Greyhounds defeated visiting Elizabethtown College, 5-1, under the lights on John Makuvek Field Wednesday evening in Landmark Conference action as the Hounds captured their sixth consecutive victory.

How It Happened

  • The Blue Jays scored the opening goal of the match just 4:11 into the contest on a penalty corner
  • Moravian would even the score in the 12th minute when sophomore midfielder Sarah Bietka tapped in a long shot from junior midfielder Maddie Call
  • The Greyhounds took the lead for good four minutes into the second quarter as junior midfielder Emily Wells netted a goal on a spinning shot that went inside the left post off another pass from Call
  • Moravian made it 3-1 just a minute before the intermission when senior forward Ava Edwards shot in a pass from the left side by freshman forward Sydney Anderson
  • Edwards netted her second goal of the evening just 1:19 into the third quarter as sophomore forward Hanna Leto drove in from the right side and slipped a pass to Edwards in front of the goal
  • The Hounds finished off the scoring in the 55th minute as sophomore midfielder Bekkah Kehoe found the back if the goal with a tap-in of a long shot from freshman midfielder Savannah Sutter 

Inside the Numbers

  • Moravian tied the school record of 10 victories originally set in 1988 and then tied in 1989, 1992, 1996 and 2004
  • The Greyhounds also have school records of 45 goals, 37 assists and 127 points for the year
  • The Blue and Grey are now 3-1 in Landmark Conference action, the first time since the conference was founded in 2007 that the Hounds have won three conference contests in a season
  • It is the Hounds' first win over the Blue Jays since Elizabethtown became a full member of the Landmark Conference in 2014-15. Moravian had lost 12 straight matches to Elizabethtown dating back to October 23, 2004 when the Greyhounds posted a 4-1 victory on Betty Prince Field
  • Junior goalie Brooke Wilkinson made four saves as she became the third goalkeeper in program history to earn 10 victories in a season
  • Edwards now has 15 goals on the season, the fourth most in a single campaign, and she became the 14th Greyhound to record 20 goals in a career
  • Bietka scored for the sixth time this fall while Wells picked up her fourth goal of the season and Kehoe netted her second goal
  • Call became the 28th player to record two assists in a match in school history, and she now has five assists in 2021
  • Sutter earned her first collegiate point with her assist while Anderson and Leto each have three assists this season
  • Moravian had a 19-8 advantage in shots and a 12-4 edge in penalty corners in the contest 
Listen to Ava Edwards '22 and Head Coach Sarah Dalrymple discuss their 5-1 victory over Elizabethtown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Up Next for the Greyhounds

  • Saturday, October 16 at Juniata College, 1:00 p.m.
  • Saturday, October 23 vs. The University of Scranton, 1:00 p.m. – Senior Day