WEST HAVEN, Conn. – Graduate student
Morgan Mesenbrink registered her first career hat trick to lead the second-ranked East Stroudsburg University field hockey team to a 6-1 rout of New Haven on Monday afternoon at Ralph F. DellaCamera Stadium.
Playing their seventh consecutive game on the road, the Warriors improve to 8-1 on the season while the Chargers drop to 3-5 overall.
Notables
- Hanna Lewis wasted no time putting the Warriors on the scoreboard as the senior scored her fifth of the season just over a minute into the contest
- After the Chargers tied the game at 1-1, senior Madison Kline found the back of the net for the fifth time this year to put the Warriors back in front 2-1 at the 3:40 mark
- Senior Olivia Breen stretched ESU's lead to 3-1 just 57 seconds later, scoring her fourth goal of the season
- Recording the final three goals of the game for ESU was Mesenbrink, who became the first player since Celeste Veenstra (2021) to notch a hat trick. The Hartland, Wisc. native scored at 25:38, 32:53 and 55:29 for her third, fourth and fifth scores of the year
- Sophomore Jady van Gils collected her fourth assist in the last four games with a pair
- Also recording assists for the Warriors was senior Lia Parker, sophomore Maddy Barbush, freshman Carmen van Kuringe, Breen (twice) and Lewis
- Junior goalkeeper Amy Supey made two saves in 38 minutes, while junior Emma Valinote tallied a trio of stops in the final 22 minutes
- ESU had the advantage over the Chargers in shots (34-9), shots on goal (24-6), and penalty corners (21-6)
- In her 38th season, head coach Sandy Miller collected her 467th career victory today, now needing 20 more to move into third all-time in Division II
How it Happened
1:07 | Dribbling the ball near the end line, van Gils dropped off a pass to a cutting Lewis in front of the cage, who chipped a shot over the head of the Chargers' goalkeeper to give the Warriors a 1-0 lead
2:40 | Less than two minutes later, New Haven answered as Kelli Jacobson blasted a shot off the initial penalty corner pass from Kat Trammel into the bottom left corner of goal to tie the game at 1-1
3:40 | After receiving a pass from van Gils, Kline sent in a bouncing shot from the left side of the shooting arc that snuck into right corner of the game to put the Warriors back in front, 2-1
4:37 | ESU stretched their lead to 3-1 less than five minutes into the contest as Barbush sent the initial pass in from the penalty corner to Breen, who crushed a shot into the back of the net
25:38 | The Warriors executed another penalty corner to perfection as Breen dumped off an initial pass to Parker, before she sent the ball into the front of the net where Mesenbrink was able to get her stick on it for a deflection that resulted in ESU's fourth goal of the game
32:53 | It was nearly dé·jà vu for ESU as the Warriors made the score 5-0 on Mesenbrink's second goal of the afternoon. Breen shot in the entry pass from the penalty corner, then Kline was able to one touch the ball towards the net before it was ultimately redirected by Mesenbrink into the back of the cage
55:29 | ESU capped off the scoring with less than five minutes to go when van Kuringe dropped off a pass to an unmarked Mesenbrink in front of the goal, who hit a low rolling shot for the hat trick which helped the Warriors seal a 6-1 victory
Up Next
ESU returns to Whitenight Field on Wednesday, Oct. 12 for the first time in 38 days as the Warriors welcome Bloomsburg at 3 p.m. for PSAC match.
