By Rave’n-Dajon Coleman, Staff Writer
With one minute and 30 seconds left on the clock, freshman attack Caity Miller scored her first career goal and Susquehanna’s only goal as they lost 3–1 on the road to St. Mary’s College on Sept. 17 in a non-conference neutral site game.
As the time expired for the first half, Susquehanna managed to keep St. Mary’s off the scoreboard until a penalty was called in the corner, which would eventually lead to a goal from Brooke Steinhoff off of an Emily Pulkowski assist. The score was now 1–0 St. Mary’s.
Susquehanna’s offense kept their fight for a goal all game. In the first half Susquehanna lead 5–4 in the penalty corners. Susquehanna also took eight shots compared to St. Mary’s seven shots in the first 35 minutes.
Seven minutes in to the second half, Steinhoff then scored her second goal of the game and second of the season off of a rebounded shot to give St. Mary’s a 2–0 lead.
Sydney Cline then added the third and final goal for St. Mary’s in the waning seconds of the 54th minute off of another rebounded shot. Courtney Mellon, who put the original shot on goal, received the assist on the play.
Both of St. Mary’s goals were scored within a 10 minute window of each other.
The River Hawks continued to press and scored with less than two minutes left on the clock. On a scramble in front of the goal Miller scored with the help of junior forward Raquel Ramos.
Sophomore goalkeeper Emily Digaetano played 54 minutes and managed to save seven shots. Susquehanna’s other goalkeeper, senior Courtney Purnell, saved the one shot that was attempted during her time in the game. Purnell played the final 16 minutes.
Susquehanna finished the game with 16 shots, eight saves, one foul and one assist. Hunter Pitman had nine of Susquehanna’s 16 shots.
Prior to playing Susquehanna, St. Mary’s came off a disappointing 2–1 loss to Roanoke College. Prior to playing St. Mary’s, Susquehanna beat McDaniel College with the score of 3–1.
The River Hawks also played a game just two day later at home against Notre Dame (MD.) and posted a dominant 10-0 win.
Sophomore attack Hunter Pitman led Susquehanna with a hat-trick and seven shots on the afternoon. Junior attack Stephanie Sachs led the team in assists with three.
The ten-goal performance is the most in a game since 2010 when Susquehanna beat Rose- mont 11-0.
Notre Dame (MD.) could not get anything going offensively and failed to record a single shot on the day.
Susquehanna returns to action on Saturday, Sept. 23 when host conference-foe Catholic at 1 p.m.