The William & Mary field hockey team won its second shutout in a row on Friday night, cruising past Towson at home, 6-0. With the win, the Tribe improves to 6-4 overall and 3-0 atop the Colonial Athletic Association standings, while the Tigers fall to 1-10 (0-3 CAA).
How It Happened
- W&M started the game patiently, content to feel out the Towson defense and find the avenues for attack. The first goal came in the 14th minute, when junior
Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) fed a long pass into the circle and found senior captain
Jenny McCann (Annandale, Va.) in front. McCann poked the ball around the goalkeeper and in for her first goal of the season.
- The Tribe went up 2-nil in the 21st minute, after drawing a penalty corner. Freshman
Cara Menges (Richmond, Va.), the reigning CAA Rookie of the Week, took the initial pass and sent it over to junior captain
Christie van de Kamp (Midlothian, Va.), who swept her shot into goal for her career-high tying third goal of the season.
- Just a few minutes later, senior
Jenna Cutilli (Maple Glen, Pa.) went flying to one-time a pass from Snead out of the air and into goal for her first-career score, putting W&M up 3-0 in the 25th minute.
- Towson had their only chance of the night in the 30th minute, drawing a penalty corner and taking their shot after a bit of mis-direction that didn't fool freshman goalkeeper
Kimi Jones (Virginia Beach, Va.).
- W&M came out in the second period firing on all cylinders, bombarding the Tigers' goalkeeper Mackenzie Peacock with seven penalty corners and 21 shots in the final 35 minutes alone.
- In the 42nd minute, junior
Woodard Hooper (Reston, Va.) began to reign over the offensive circle, scoring the first leg of a hat trick. Menges took her shot initially that was blocked by a defender, but Hooper nabbed the ball off the rebound and pushed it past the keeper for the 4-0 lead.
- The barrage kept coming for the next almost 20 minutes, but Peacock and the Towson defense did well to keep W&M from scoring again until the 60th minute. Out of another penalty corner, van de Kamp's initial shot went down to Hooper on the far post, and Hooper was able to deflect it up and in for her second goal of the night.
- Hooper's treble was completed early in the 64th minute, off of another corner. Van de Kamp's first shot was a hard slapper that was kicked back out by the goalkeeper, and her second shot once again found the stick of Hooper to wrap around the defense and go into the net. That finished the scoring at 6-0, despite two more chances in the waning minutes for W&M.
- For the game, the Tribe outshot Towson, 32-1, and 21-1 in shots on goal. W&M also led in penalty corners, 12-1.
- Towson goalkeeper Mackenzie Peacock made 15 saves, while
Kimi Jones for W&M saved the only shot taken by Towson.
Starters
W&M -
Kimi Jones,
Annie Snead,
Ashleigh Nottingham,
Christie van de Kamp,
Estelle Hughes,
Caitlin Maclean,
Cara Menges,
Woodard Hooper,
Cassidy Goodwin,
Jorja Morgan,
Haley Hopkins
Towson - Mackenzie Peacock, Abby Webster, Katie McNeel, Erica McKay, Beira Ho, Pamela Abbott, Katy Parkinson, Gretch Alderfer, Paige Reese, Jessica Florenzo, Kerri Thornton
Notes
Head coach
Tess Ellis won the 50th game of her career, becoming just the third coach in W&M history to reach that milestone ... She is 50-56 (.472) in five and a half seasons, and 20-13 (.606) in conference play ... W&M's shutout streak is now 191:42, while the personal scoreless streak for freshman goalkeeper
Kimi Jones is 156:42 ...
Jenna Cutilli scored her first career goal tonight ... Senior captain
Jenny McCann scored her first goal of the season, and the first game-winning goal of her career ... Sophomore
Caitlin Maclean (Devizes, Wiltshire, England) took the field in her first career start ... Redshirt-freshman
Megan Nemecek (Gambrills, Md.) appeared for the first time in her Tribe career, playing the final 17:24 of the contest ... Junior goalkeeper
Morgan Connor (Bedford, N.Y.) also shared credit for the shutout, replacing Jones at halftime and playing for 17:36 ... The five team assists are tied for sixth-most in a game in school history ... Both
Annie Snead and
Christie van de Kamp tied career highs with two assists in the game, which is tied for 10th-most all-time in a game in school history ... Snead moved into a tie for 15th in school history with 14 career assists ... van de Kamp has already tied her season-long totals from last three of three goals, four assists, and 10 points ...
Woodard Hooper's first-ever hat trick is tied for 15th-most among single-game goals ... This is the first season since 2003 that W&M has had multiple hat-tricks in the same year ... W&M has started conference play 3-0 for the second year in a row, and just the fourth time ever (2004, 2005, and 2017).
Up Next
William & Mary is off until next weekend, when the Tribe heads to California over Fall Break to face the top two teams from the America East conference. W&M will face Pacific on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 2 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern), then travel up to No. 21 Stanford for a 3:00 p.m. Pacific (6:00 p.m. Eastern) match-up on Monday, Oct. 15.
