Box Score

CANTON, NY (October 24, 2014) – St. Lawrence University's Katie Klein scored on a penalty stroke 1:07 into overtime to lift the Saints to a 2-1 Liberty League victory over the Vassar College field hockey team Friday evening.

Despite the loss, the Brewers (11-3, 3-2 Liberty League) qualified for the Liberty League Tournament thanks to Skidmore College knocking off Union College 10-0 Friday afternoon. Vassar College takes on Skidmore Saturday at 2 p.m. to see which team will carry the No. 2 seed in the playoffs, which comes with a home game in the opening round.

VC and Skidmore will play each other in the first game of the Liberty League Tournament regardless Wednesday, November 5, with the University of Rochester hosting William Smith College in the other semi-final that same day.

The Brewers and Saints played a feisty first half, as the two teams went back and forth across the field. Vassar College had multiple chances in the first period, with the best coming on a penalty corner shot from Enya Cunningham (Stroudsburg, PA/Stroudsburg) but SLU keeper Julia Hudson made a strong save.

The Saints (6-9, 1-4 Liberty) got on the board first at the 23:14 mark of the opening half, as Kara Pelosi netted her 10^th goal of the season. After halftime, the Brewers continued their pressure but Hudson and the Saints wouldn't budge, denying Vassar on multiple goal scoring opportunities including a great chance at 40:00 of the game as sophomore Hayley Beach (Latham, NY/Shaker) had an attempt saved by St. Lawrence defender Carly Dziekan.

Vassar College finally broke through at 56:14, as Lauren Wiebe (Chicago, IL/Francis W. Parker) sent a feed into freshman Storm Sideleau (Hopkinton, NH/Kimball Union Academy) near the top of the goalmouth. Sideleau eluded a defender, spun and swept the shot past Hudson for her second goal of the year.

Minutes later, Vassar nearly took the lead on a shot by Beach, but Dziekan made her second defensive save of the game to keep the game deadlocked at one. With less than a minute, the Brewers earned two penalty corners but a shot by Wiebe at the end of regulation was denied by the stick of Hudson to send the game to overtime.

In overtime, the Saints took possession to start the period, wasting no time in heading down the field and forcing two saves from the Brewers. The second save came from Cunningham, but the attempt was stopped with her body and SLU was awarded the penalty stroke, which Klein netted past the left of keeper Amreen Bhasin (Cresskill, NJ/Riverdale) for the winner.

The Brewers dominated time of possession and the shot totals, finishing the game with a 29-11 advantage in shot attempts. Vassar College also earned 17 penalty corners to just the four of the Saints, but in the end it was the 15 saves from Hudson that led SLU to the victory. Bhasin finished with four stops for VC on 10 shots faced, and Beach led all players with 10 shots taken and six fired on cage. With the loss, Vassar College falls to 0-10 at St. Lawrence all-time.