The William & Mary field hockey team played a smart, tough game on both ends of the field on Friday afternoon, downing Northeastern 2-0 in the Colonial Athletic Association semifinals. The Tribe improved to 10-7 on the year, while the Huskies finished their season at 8-11.
How it Happened
- The vast majority of the game was played in the midfield, as both teams showed off strong defenses.
- W&M had the majority of chances in the first half, taking seven penalty corners and eight shots to just two of each for Northeastern, eventually converting on the final corner in the 33rd minute.
- On the corner, junior
Cassidy Goodwin (Gloucester, Va.) sent the ball into captain
Christie van de Kamp (Midlothian, Va.), who set up redshirt-senior
Estelle Hughes (Newcastle, NSW, Australia) for the shot and the score. It was Hughes' team-leading 11th goal of the season, the seventh assist for van de Kamp, and the second for Goodwin.
- Northeastern picked up the pressure in the second half, taking six shots to W&M's eight, but CAA Rookie of the Year
Kimi Jones (Virginia Beach, Va.) stood tall in the goal, making four saves to preserve the clean sheet.
- On the other end of the field, W&M kept probing around the edges of the defense, and eventually broke through with two penalty corners in the final 90 seconds.
- Northeastern goalkeeper Julia Gluyas made the last of her 10 saves to stifle the first corner, but the second penalty was unstoppable.
- With just over 30 seconds to go, junior
Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.), after starting the corner stepped in and got the ball back, then flipped it up and over the defense to the back post where classmate
Woodard Hooper (Reston, Va.) swatted it out of the air and into the next. The goal kept Hooper tied with Hughes for the lead with 11 goals, while for Snead, it was even more important as it gave her 11 assists on the year, tying the program's all-time record that has stood since 1979.
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
NU - Julia Gluyas, Melanie Weber, Laura MacLachlan, Ffion Thompson, Megan Barrett, Sam Bodo, Camille O'Conor, Lauren Brewster, Rachel Campbell, June Curry-Lindahl, Kellie Stigas
Notes
W&M advances to the CAA Championship game for the second year in a row, and the fifth time overall ... It's the first time that the Tribe has appeared in back-to-back conference title games ... W&M has back-to-back 10 win seasons for the first time since achieving that mark every year from 1998-2006 ... With Hughes and Hooper, W&M has a pair of 11-goal scorers in the same season for the first time since 2003, and the 10th time overall ... The Tribe evened its post-season record against Northeastern to 1-1 ... W&M recorded a shutout in tournament play for the first time since the 2005 quarterfinals, when it beat James Madison 1-0 ... Jones recorded her second shutout of the season, and improved to 8-3 on the year ... Snead's assist moved her into a tie for first in a single season, with 11, and also into a tie for fifth on the career list, with 19 helpers ... Hughes moved into a tie for 15th overall with 24 career goals ... Van de Kamp moved into a tie for 15th with seven assists this season ... She's just the sixth player in school history with at least seven goals and seven assists in a season ... Between Snead and van de Kamp, this is the first time since 1990 and just the third time ever (also 1979) that W&M has had two players with 7+ assists in a year ... With the win, W&M improved to 24-29 (.453) in conference tournament play ... The Tribe is also 18-12 (.600) in its first game, 5-20 (.200) in the semifinal round, and 8-8 (.500) as the No. 2 seed.
Up Next
W&M will face No. 14 Delaware in the CAA Championship game for the second year in a row. The game will begin at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4, in Newark, Del., and can be streamed live on CAA.TV.
