Box Score

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. – Senior forward Jessica Frantz scored three goals for her second career hat trick as No. 5 East Stroudsburg University began its 2010 field hockey season with a 5-0 win at Merrimack on Saturday afternoon.

Frantz opened the scoring with a penalty stroke at the 11:10 mark, scored another goal with just under 10 minutes left in the first half and completed her three-goal game with 10 minutes remaining in regulation.

A second team All-PSAC East pick last season, Frantz had 14 goals and 10 assists and ranked fifth in the PSAC in points per game. She scored three goals vs. Mansfield in the final home game of the regular season last year and has 35 goals in her collegiate career, 17 at ESU and 18 at IUP during her first two seasons in 2007 and 2008.

Senior forward Brittany Kocis scored the Warriors' third goal with 2:01 left in the first half, opening her final year at ESU with her 16th career goal.

Senior midfielder Kayla Cilenti added a goal and two assists. She found the cage with 17 minutes remaining in the second half and assisted on Kocis' goal and Frantz's final goal of the game. Kocis had the assist on Cilenti's goal after a penalty corner.

Junior goalkeeper Maureen Ordnung made nine saves and sophomore Sarah Dobroskey had three saves in the final six minutes.

Ordnung saved a penalty stroke with the Warriors holding a 1-0 lead and improved to 16-7 as a starter. She was second in Division II in save percentage while starting all 21 games last season on ESU's NCAA Playoff team.

ESU held a 31-19 advantage in shots and 18-7 margin in penalty corners. Kerri Bergquist made 14 saves for Merrimack, 12 in the first half.

The Warriors will take on Stonehill on Sunday at 11 a.m.