SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – Sophomore
Reese Fendelet recorded her first career hat trick and three players scored their first collegiate goals as the Union College field hockey team rolled to a 9-0 victory over SUNY Morrisville in non-conference action on Friday afternoon at Frank Bailey Field at Bertagna-Class of 1985 Stadium.
Fendelet led a dominant Union offensive effort with three goals, matching her total from the entirety of her first season. Sophomore
Molly Halliday scored a pair of goals and classmate
Maddie Greco recorded three points with a goal and two helpers, while first-year
Rowan Dapson added a pair of assists as well. In addition, four first-years picked up the first points of their collegiate careers:
Maggie Monaghan,
Katie Radzik and
Astoria Rix all scored their first college goals, and
Elia Reisner picked up her first assist.
Union got started quickly in the third minute, with Halliday scoring her first goal of the year off a one-touch pass from Greco. The home team struck for two more goals in the final 3:40 of the opening frame, as Fendelet netted her first off the rebound of a shot by senior
Grace Goddard at the 11:20 mark and Monaghan scored her first collegiate goal via a Dapson pass with under a minute remaining.
Greco and Halliday scored in the second stanza to put the Garnet Chargers up by five at the half, as the home team posted a 19-1 edge in shots.
The shots were 18-1 in favor of Union over the final 30 minutes, which saw the home team score twice in both the third and fourth frames to complete the scoring. Rix found the net for the first time with a nice individual effort, dribbling toward the center of the arc before firing a rocket into the lower-left corner. Fendelet scored twice in 5:05 spanning the third-quarter intermission to complete her hat trick, and Radzik added one last tally with 2:55 on the clock with her first goal.
Union finished the afternoon with a 37-2 edge in shots (26-0 shots on goal) and took 14 corners to Morrisville's two. All three Union goalies got into the game, but neither junior
Sophie Brady, sophomore
Marion Stuntz nor first-year
Tess Parker needed to make a save in the shutout victory.
Union will play its first road game of the season tomorrow, when the squad heads to Albany to take on Russell Sage College beginning at 2 p.m.