FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Lipski and Hathaway Score but Mounties Fall to #5 Kutztown in Centennial Celebration
MANSFIELD –
Katie Lipski and
Brianna Hathaway each scored goals for Mansfield, but it wouldn't be enough as No. 5 Kutztown came away with a 7-2 win Saturday afternoon in a regionally televised game in front of a large crowd at Karl Van Norman Field.
Saturday marked the Centennial Celebration with dozens of former field hockey student-athletes coming back to celebrate 100 years of history. Field hockey at Mansfield dates back to 1915 when Irene Aubrey, a student of Mansfield State Normal School, brought the sport to campus from Wales.
The match-up was made even more special as a pair of Mountaineer field hockey alumns faced-off against each other as head coaches in Mansfield's Brittany Kostishion Hansrote '09 and Kutztown's Marci Lippert Scheuing '05.
Kutztown opened the scoring in the eighth minute with an Anna Behm goal and added another two minutes later on Madison Wampler's score. Behmn scored her second of the game just before halftime to put the Golden Bears ahead 3-0.
Early into the second half, Madison Stewart beat the keeper from 10 yards out to extend Kutztown's lead.
Lipski used a perfectly placed penalty stroke in the 45
th minute to put Mansfield on the board. The goal was the second of the season for Lipski.
The Golden Bears added three more goals in the second half before Hathaway notched the Mountaineers second score of the game on a breakaway in the 67
th minute. The goal was Hathaway's second score of the year as well.
Haley Stevens recorded a defensive save for Mansfield.
Mansfield travels to Mercyhurst on Tuesday before hosting West Chester next Saturday for Senior Day.
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