The William & Mary field hockey team wrapped up its California swing on Monday night at No. 21 Stanford, going toe-to-toe with one of the top offensive teams in the nation before ultimately falling in a penalty shootout, 4-3. The Tribe moves to 7-5 on the year, while the Cardinal improve to 10-4 overall.
How it Happened
- Once again, the Tribe came out firing, and jumped ahead early with a pair of goals in the first seven minutes.
- In the fourth minute, junior
Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) passed it over to
Cassidy Goodwin (Gloucester, Va.), and she would not be denied to give W&M a 1-0 lead.
- Just two minutes later, Goodwin struck again this time out of a penalty corner, taking a pass from classmate
Christie van de Kamp (Midlothian, Va.) and rippling the back of the net to put her team up 2-0.
- It took another 15 minutes, but Stanford was able to recover and tie the match.
- In the 24th minute, the Cardinal took a textbook penalty corner, with Molly Redgrove scoring from the top.
- Exactly four minutes later, Stanford's Corinne Zanolli scored her 19th of the season, second-most in the nation, off of another penalty corner to tie the match at 2-2.
- Just before the half, the Tribe scored again out of a corner that included a video review. The captain van de Kamp sent a pass down to Snead who tapped in her third of the season. After a Stanford protest (of either the penalty call or the goal), the video came out in favor of W&M and the score stood 3-2 as the teams went into the break.
- In the second half, Stanford tied it up in 50th minute, as Jessica Welch found the back of the cage out a scrum in the middle of the scoring area.
- That's where the score stayed through the end of regulation, despite three yellow cards issued against W&M, and a flurry of shots by the Tribe in the final 90 seconds. Two of those were saved by Stanford goalkeeper Kelsey Bing, and the third went just wide with under 10 seconds left.
- W&M had first crack in the first overtime period, with
Estelle Hughes (Newcastle, NSW, Australia) trying to end it with her second OT winner just three minutes in, but she was unable to slip by the goalkeeper.
- Stanford earned three penalty corners in the space of the 76th minute, but the defensive unit and freshman goalkeeper
Kimi Jones (Virginia Beach, Va.) stood strong, with Jones making saves on all three shots to keep the score tied 3-3.
- The second overtime period was downright peaceful by comparison, with just three shots total. Freshman
Cara Menges (Richmond, Va.) took a pair, but was unable to break through Bing's defense, while the lone Stanford try was blocked in front by the defense.
- That brought on the penalty shootout, where Stanford was able to convert their first and third attempts, but the Tribe was unfortunately not able to score on any of its tries.
Starters
W&M -
Kimi Jones,
Jenny McCann,
Annie Snead,
Ashleigh Nottingham,
Christie van de Kamp,
Estelle Hughes,
Cara Menges,
Woodard Hooper,
Cassidy Goodwin,
Jorja Morgan,
Haley Hopkins
Stanford - Kelsey Bing, Emma Christus, Fenella Scutt, Jordan Barry, Kennedy Schumacher, Isabelle Pilson, Corinne Zanolli, Molly Redgrove, Emma Alderton, Nina Randolph, Phoebe Crosthwaite
Notes
This was W&M's first penalty shootout since 2016 ... W&M has been involved in four overtime games this season, the most since the 2008 team played six ... It's tied for the fourth-most overtime games in a season dating back to 1977 ... Before Stanford scored in the 24th minute, W&M extended its season-long shutout streak to 285:11, dating back to the 22nd minute against Northeastern ... W&M out-scored its opponents 17-0 in that span ... Goodwin's pair of goals marked the third-straight game and sixth game this year that the Tribe has had a player score two or more goals in a game ... They were also her first two goals of the season ... Snead's goal was her third of the season ... Snead also picked up her CAA-leading eighth assist of the year, and is tied for ninth in the country with 0.67 assists per game this season ... That's also t-8th most in a season at W&M, just three behind the school record set by All-American
Pixie Hamilton '80 in 1979 and tied by
Karen Thorne '84 in 1982 ... van de Kamp's two assists are tied for 10th-most in school history, and her third two-assist game in her career ... Third game in a row and fifth time this season that a Tribe player has notched two assists this season.
Up Next
William & Mary returns home to play three of its final four games in the friendly confines of Busch Field. The stretch begins on Friday, Oct. 19, at 7 PM as the Tribe welcomes Drexel to kick off Homecoming Weekend, and also includes a match against No. 18 Delaware on Sunday at 12 p.m.
