COLLEGE FIELD
HOCKEY FINAL SCORE
NESCAC Tournament 1st Round
Tufts 2, Wesleyan 0
At Medford, MA
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Game
Box Score
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Emma Kozumbo and the Tufts defense have shut
out four straight opponents
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MEDFORD -- Junior Tamara Brown (Annandale, VA)
scored a goal in each half and fifth-ranked Tufts University
controlled possession during a 2-0 victory against Wesleyan
University in the first round of the 2009 NESCAC Field Hockey
Tournament on Sunday afternoon at Bello Field.
Tufts, the #2 seed in the conference tournament, advances to the
semi-finals next Saturday at Trinity College. The Jumbos will play
fifth-seed Williams, a 2-1 winner at Middlebury in the first round.
Tufts improved to 14-1 overall, while Wesleyan finished its season
at 8-7.
Brown scored on the first shot of the game at 2:20, and it was
all Tufts would need. The Jumbo defense did not allow Wesleyan near
their goal, giving up no shots on net and just three attempted.
Tufts keeper Marianna Zak (Concord, MA) did not
have to make a save while recording the shutout, which was the
fourth in a row for Tufts. Meanwhile, Cardinals first-year
goalkeeper Tori Redding (Guilford, CT) was outstanding with 20
saves. Tufts finished with advantages of 35-3 in shots and 10-0 in
penalty corners.
The first Tufts goal was set up by senior co-captain
Amanda Russo (Garden City, NY). She slid the ball
past Redding and other Wesleyan defenders in the goal mouth to a
wide-open Brown, who deposited it into an empty cage. Redding would
stone the Jumbos for the rest of the half, finishing with 12 saves.
Her best came on a point-blank cannonball blast off the stick of
Tufts junior Amanda Roberts (Wenham, MA).
The Jumbos continued to dominate in the second half, but could
not add to their one-goal margin. Finally, with 17:38 on the clock,
Brown was perfectly positioned again to score off a rebound from
classmate Melissa Burke's (Walpole, MA) shot. The
goal was Brown's 19th of the season and put the Jumbos up 2-0.
Wesleyan managed some pressure late in the second half, with
junior Allie Lynch (Greenwich, CT) getting two shots off. However,
a Tufts defense that has allowed just four goals against in the
last 10 games, didn't let either get through to Zak.
Tufts reached the conference "final four" for the fourth
consecutive season. They were 3-0 winners at Williams on October
24.
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