Trinity Field Hockey Edges Wesleyan In Overtime
Hartford, Conn. - Sophomore back Payson Sword (Princeton, N.J.) scored the game-winning goal in overtime and added an assist in the first half to lead the Trinity College Bantams to a 3-2 victory over the Wesleyan University Cardinals in field hockey action this evening on Sheppard Field.
Wesleyan scored first with 15:35 left in the first half, when sophomore forward Liz Chabot (Rye, N.Y.) put the first shot past Bantam sophomore goalkeeper Gina Dinallo (West Hartford, Conn.) in her last 243 minutes in the cage. The Bantams tied the score at 1-1 with 10:26 remaining before the break, as Sword assisted sophomore forward Caroline Snite (Philadelphia, Pa.) on her first career goal.
The Cardinals kept the pressure on, scoring 1:48 into the second stanza on a goal by senior co-captain Alexa David (Bernardsville, N.J.), and held the lead largely due to consistently solid play by freshman goalie Tori Redding (Guilford, Conn.) who finished the game with 15 saves. Redding stopped Snite on a one-on-one breakaway later in the second half, but Wesleyan was called for a foul on the shot, and Trinity junior forward Robyn Williams (Bulaway, Zimbabwe) converted the stroke for a 2-2 tie. Sword blasted the ball past Redding from 15 feet away in the middle of the cage on a pass by Williams 2:38 into the overtime to preserve Trinity's 7-0 start. Dinallo finished with seven saves for the Bantams, who outshot the Cardinals, 26-8.
