Box Score

SLIPPERY ROCK - Junior midfielder Paige Harrold, senior forward Melanie Shambaugh and junior midfielder Kelli Shapiro scored second-half goals as No. 2-ranked East Stroudsburg University pulled away for a 3-0 win at Slippery Rock in PSAC field hockey on Saturday afternoon.

ESU (13-3, 6-2) has won three straight, all by shutout, and five of its last six. The Warriors held margins of 16-7 in shots and 5-4 in penalty corners, including 12-2 in shots and 3-0 in corners in the second half.

Senior goalkeeper Halle Frisco had four saves, two in each half, for her ninth overall shutout and sixth solo shutout of the season. She moves into a tie for fourth on ESU's single-season shutouts list.

ESU's senior class - back Sydney McCarthy, midfielders Hannah Caplan and Ashley Chioda, Shambaugh and Frisco - ties a program record with its 58th win in the last four years, improving to 58-20 since the start of the 2014 season, including the 2015 NCAA Division II championship and a school-record 19-3 mark. ESU's 1994-97 class had a four-year mark of 58-24-1.

Harrold opened the scoring just over 10 minutes into the second half, scoring her second goal of the season on an assist by sophomore forward Sara Ober.

It stayed 1-0 until the final eight minutes of the contest, when Shambaugh had her team-leading 10th goal of the season and Shapiro her fifth of the year on an assist by Harrold.

Nicole Bream started and made two saves in the first half for Slippery Rock (10-7, 5-4). Maddie Murphy had six saves and conceded all three ESU goals in the second half.

The Warriors travel to Kutztown (10-6, 5-4), which won 3-0 at No. 1-ranked Shippensburg on Saturday, for a 7 p.m. start on Wednesday night. ESU topped the Golden Bears, 3-2, in a non-conference meeting on September 12.