Box Score

MILLERSVILLE – Senior back Grace Manzione opened the scoring with a penalty stroke 7:07 into the game, and more than 90 minutes later, penalty strokes decided the outcome as East Stroudsburg University finished its 2011 field hockey season with a 2-1 win at No. 9-ranked Millersville on Saturday afternoon.

Manzione and senior midfielder Devin Whalen both converted on their penalty strokes after the two teams played to a 1-1 tie through 100 minutes as the Warriors won their first strokeoff since 2004, 2-1.

Senior goalkeeper Maureen Ordnung made nine saves, including four in overtime, to finish the season with 159 saves and her career with 434 saves, fifth-most in school history. Ordnung is also tied for fifth with 14 career shutouts. She averaged 8.8 saves per game in 18 starts and was third in Division II in saves per game last week.

Manzione scored the game-winner 5:32 into the second overtime in the Warriors' 2-1 win over Millersville on Oct. 5. She struck earlier on Saturday, converting her penalty stroke just over seven minutes into the contest, which looked like the game-winner until Millersville's Rachel Dickinson scored on a penalty corner with just 2:29 remaining.

The two teams combined for 16 shots (10 by ESU) and 11 penalty corners (six by ESU) in 30 minutes of overtime, but neither team could find the cage. Manzione and Whalen were the first two Warriors to go in the strokeoff, and the early lead stood up as Millersville converted just one of its five attempts.

Millersville held advantages of 21-17 in shots and 17-10 in penalty corners for the afternoon and had 10 corners alone in the second half.

The Warriors are 7-1 all-time in games decided by penalty strokes, most recently winning 3-2 at Bloomsburg in 2004. They won at Millersville for the second time in five meetings since 2007 and swept the season series for the second time in three seasons.

ESU won six of its final nine games to finish with an 8-10 record, one win below .500, to end a streak of 24 straight seasons at .500 or better under head coach Sandy Miller. The Warriors went 4-8 against teams ranked in the NFHCA Top 10, including two wins over Millersville, a 5-0 shutout of No. 4 Stonehill in the season opener and a 3-0 shutout of No. 8 Kutztown on Oct. 11.