LORETTO, PA- The Saint Francis field hockey team honored their four seniors prior to the game and gave them a lasting memory with a big 7-0 shutout win over Appalachian State.
SFU honored
Selena Adamshick (Harveys Lake, Pa./Lake-Lehman),
Michelle Lipski (Shavertown, Pa./Lake-Lehman),
Elizabeth Momeyer (Harrison City, Pa./Penn Trafford) and
Samantha Zeiders (Hummelstown, Pa./Lower Dauphin) in a pre-game ceremony. While it was Senior Day, it was the freshman that helped lead the charge to victory on Sunday.
Brea Seabrook (Wilkes Barre, Pa./GAR Memorial) and
Irene Fritschy (Zwolle, The Netherlands) each tallied a hat trick and the latter added an assist for two huge offensive performances.
Samantha Zeiders (Hummelstown, Pa./Lower Dauphin) made three saves in the shutout victory and made two of them in the early stages. In the opening minutes, Zieders stopped a pair of Mountaineer shots off of penalty corners to keep it a scoreless game. The Red Flash would have their first good scoring chance off a penalty corner as well. Both Fritschy and Adamshick were stopped by Cristina Ceppi on point-blank attempts. The Flash would keep attacking, earning five more penalty corners in the half, but could not score. Fritschy changed that in the 34th minute. The freshman took a long pass from Adamshick and broke in on goal, scoring from about three feet out. Thirty seconds later,
Brea Seabrook (Wilkes Barre, Pa./GAR Memorial) scored her first of the match, stealing a App. State pass and firing a shot past Ceppi. It would be 2-0 at the half.
Seabrook wasted little time scoring in the second half, tapping in a
Shannon Pereira (Toronto, Ontario, Canada/Francis Libermann Catholic) pass that was loose in the crease to make it 3-0 in the 40th minute. Five minutes later, Fritschy added her second, one-timing a
Carly Gromel (Harveys Lake, Pa./Lake-Lehman) pass off a penalty corner. SFU kept pouring it on with Fritschy's hat-trick goal off a corner just two minutes later. The Flash scored three times in seven minutes to lead 5-0. In the 56th minute of play, a foul on Appalachian State led to a penalty shot for the Flash. Adamshick went top shelf over Ceppi to make it 6-0. Seabrook rounded out the scoring 90 seconds later, tapping in a pass from Fritschy to record a hat trick of her own.
Defensively, the Flash shutdown the Mountaineers. After the early rush, SFU allowed just one more shot on goal the entire match. Zeiders earned her eighth shutout in nine wins for Saint Francis, who out shot Appalachian State 15-3 and 13-3 in shots on goal. The penalty corners were also one-sided with SFU owning a 14-4 edge there as well.
The win improves Saint Francis to 9-6 on the season. They will wrap-up the regular season on the road in Philadelphia where they will take on A-10 foes LaSalle, and Saint Joseph's. First up are the Explorers on Friday, match time is set for 3 p.m.
