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Sola Nets Hat Trick in Field Hockey's 5-1 Win Against Dartmouth
10/30/2005 3:57:50 PM | Field Hockey
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Junior back Michelle Sola (Blandon, Pa./Oley Valley) netted her first career hat trick as the Syracuse field hockey team defeated Dartmouth, 5-1, on Senior Day at Coyne Field. It was the final game of the regular season for the Orange (11-8, 3-2 BIG EAST) who move on to play Villanova on Friday, November 4, in the BIG EAST semifinals at 5 p.m. at Rutgers.
Dartmouth (8-8) tallied the game's first goal with 10:56 remaining in the first half off a penalty corner. Whitney Waugh scored off assists from Lindsay Gossage and Laura Kistler.
Syracuse responded with five unanswered goals, the third time this season the Orange has scored five times. The penalty corner unit was clicking. Junior Meg Ryan (Lancaster, Pa./Hempfield) was on her game as the dragger and senior Jess Dahle (Farmington, Conn./Farmington) did a great job of stopping the ball and lining it up for Sola. Ryan and Dahle each finished the day with three assists, which tied a school, single-game record. Ryan moved into a tie for second place on SU's single-season assists chart (14).
Sola tied the game at 1-1 with 9:22 remaining in the first half and then gave the Orange a 2-1 advantage with 6:35 left. SU would never relinquish the lead.
Team scoring leader Paige Sullivan (Lebanon, Pa./Lebanon) pushed in Sola's rebound off a free hit after it hit off the right goalpost. That goal, Sullivan's 13th of the season, came just 2:10 into the second half.
Junior forward Ashley Fry (Douglassville, Pa./Oley Valley), another Orange player skilled at putting the ball in the cage, tallied her 10th goal of the season with 26:29 remaining in the contest. The goal gave SU a 4-1 lead and led to a Dartmouth timeout.
Sola, Dahle and Ryan connected for the third time with 18:23 remaining in the contest. That was SU's fifth and final goal.
Both teams used two goalkeepers. Freshman Heather Hess (Lititz, Pa./Warwick) played the first 63 minutes in goal for Syracuse. She totaled five saves before giving way to sophomore Marie O'Brien. Dartmouth started Lauren Balukjian, who had five saves in the first half. She was replaced by Ashley Heist with 13:38 remaining in the game.
SU outshot the Big Green, 12-6, and had 10 penalty corners to Dartmouth's eight.
