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.

Elizabethtown College

6-8, 2-2 LC

Moravian University

10-2, 3-1 LC

Final	1	2	3	4	T
Elizabethtown College (6-8, 2-2 LC)	1	0	0	0	1
Moravian University (10-2, 3-1 LC)	1	2	1	1	5

Scoring Summary

1st - 4:11 - Chloe Smith (Elizabethtown College)

1st - 11:01 - Sarah Bietka (Moravian University)

2nd - 18:44 - Emily Wells (Moravian University)

2nd - 29:01 - Ava Edwards (Moravian University)

3rd - 31:19 - Ava Edwards (Moravian University)

4th - 54:15 - Bekkah Kehoe (Moravian University)

Game Leaders

Elizabethtown College

G: Chloe Smith - 1

A: N/A

Sh: 2 Players (#7, #21) - 2

Sv: Angelina Giglio-Tos - 5

Moravian University

G: Ava Edwards - 2

A: Maddie Call - 2

Sh: Ava Edwards - 10

Sv: Brooke Wilkinson - 4

Team Stats

Game Statistics	Elizabethtown College	Moravian University
Shots (on goal)	8 (5)	19 (14)
Saves	9	4
Fouls	39	52
Penalty Corners	4	12

Full stats

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