Box Score YORK, PA – For the first time this season, the York College field hockey team has lost back-to-back games as the Elizabethtown College Blue Jays got a goal with less than 10 minutes remaining in regulation to edge the Spartans 2-1 on Wednesday in Elizabethtown.
Game #7
Records: York (5-2), Elizabethtown (3-3)
Shots: York 14, Elizabethtown 8
Shots on Goal: York 8, Elizabethtown 5
Penalty Corners: York 10, Elizabethtown 6
Saves: York 3, Elizabethtown 7
HOW IT HAPPENED
• After the two teams went back and forth in the first half, the Blue Jays got on the board with 16 seconds left in the first half. Charity Good collected a loose ball in front of the Spartan cage and drove the ball home for the 1-0 lead. The goal was Good's third of the year.
• York had a chance to get the equalizer at the end of the half as they had a penalty corner and junior Ali Posey (Airville, Pa./Red Lion) was able to get the shot off but it was saved to end the half.
• York outshot the Blue Jays 9-6 in the opening half including 5-3 in shots on goal.
• York tied the game just over 15 minutes into the second half as sophomore Lindsay Nye (Duncannon, Pa./Susquenita) stayed hot with her ninth goal of the year. Nye dribbled the ball into the circle from the left and scored inside the right post, tying the game at one with less than 20 minutes left in regulation.
• The Spartans looked like they had taken the lead just over a minute later as they had a penalty corner. Posey fired off the shot but Elizabethtown defender Megan Eppley was in the right spot at the right time as she notched a defensive save to keep the Spartans from taking the lead.
• The Blue Jays notched the game-winner in the 61st minute as Emma Christman threw a pass towards the goal that got tipped in by Allison McLamb for the goal. The tally was McLamb's first of the year.
• York's best chance to tie the game at two came two minutes after McLamb's goal as the Spartans had a shot off a penalty corner but that would be the last shot for the Green and White in the game.
SPARTAN LEADERS
Lindsay Nye: 1 goal, 2 shots, 1 shot on goal
Ali Posey: 7 shots, 4 shots on goal
Sydney LaMarsh: 3 shots, 2 shots on goal
Autumn Mallory: 1 shot, 1 shot on goal
ELIZABETHTOWN LEADERS
Allison McLamb: 1 goal, 4 shots, 3 shots on goal
Charity Good: 1 goal, 1 shot, 1 shot on goal
Emma Christman: 1 assist, 1 shot, 1 shot on goal
Megan Epply: 1 defensive save
Haley Donlin: 1 defensive save
GOALKEEPING COMPARISON
Eve Hauptle (YCP) – 67:35 minutes, 2 goals against, 3 saves (Loss, 5-2)
Hannah Mack (EC) – 35:00 minutes, 0 goals against, 4 saves
Margo Donlin (EC) – 35:00 minutes, 1 goal against, 1 save (Win, 3-2)
GAME NOTES
The Spartans have lost their last two games by identical 2-1 scores … York is now 6-26-1 all-time against the Blue Jays as Elizabethtown has won two straight against the Spartans … the game is the first one this year in which the Spartans did not have an assist in the game … Lindsay Nye has now scored in five straight games and has at least one point in all seven games this year … Nye leads the Capital Athletic Conference in scoring with 20 points on nine goals and two assists … Nye now has 47 points on 21 goals and five assists in 26 career games for York.
UP NEXT
The Spartans return to action on Saturday when they host #14 Christopher Newport in the Capital Athletic Conference opener for both squads. The game is slated for a 12:00 pm start in York.
