Box Score

MANSFIELD – Senior forward Jessica Frantz had two goals and two assists, including the game-winner with 17 minutes remaining, as East Stroudsburg University held off Mansfield for a 5-4 win in a non-conference field hockey match-up on Saturday afternoon.

Frantz, the leading scorer in Division II, ran her season total to 18 goals to help ESU improve to 7-0 on the season, tying the school's 1949 squad for the longest undefeated start to a season in school history. Frantz has scored in all seven games and has six games with multiple goals. Her two goals on Saturday gave her 50 in her collegiate career - 32 at ESU the last two years, and 18 at IUP in 2007-08.

The senior scored five goals in the first meeting this season, a 9-4 win on Sept. 15, but the Mounties jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first 10 minutes of Saturday's contest.

Kristyn Grunza and Taryn Schawillie scored for Mansfield before ESU came back with three straight goals. Senior midfielder Amanda McGuire scored her first goal of the season, Frantz tallied on an assist from senior midfielder Joanna Reckley, and Frantz returned the favor on Reckley's goal that gave the Warriors a 3-2 edge with three minutes left in the first half.

Mansfield tied the game with 53 seconds left in the opening on Schawillie's second goal, but never regained the lead. Senior forward Caitlin Brownley put ESU back in front on Frantz's second assist early in the second half, then Alycia Pici leveled the score at 4-4 10 minutes into the period.

Frantz's final goal off a penalty corner proved to be the game-winner as ESU allowed just three shots by Mansfield in the second half.

The Warriors held advantages of 23-9 in shots and 18-5 in penalty corners, but Jamie Twist (11 saves) and Kristie Rollman (three saves) combined for 14 of the Mounties' 16 saves. Senior goalkeeper Maureen Ordnung was credited with two saves for ESU.

ESU will look for its eighth straight win on Wednesday with a PSAC East game vs. Kutztown at 4 p.m. at Whitenight Field. The Warriors have played just one conference game so far this season, a 2-1 win over C.W. Post on Tuesday on Frantz's game-winner with 12 minutes remaining.