NEW PALTZ, N.Y. – Coming off a season-opening victory against Western Connecticut State University, the State University of New York at New Paltz field hockey team travels to Wayne, N.J., on Wednesday, Sept. 3, at 7 p.m. to take on non-conference William Paterson University.
RECORDS: New Paltz enters Wednesday night's tilt with a 1-0 record, while William Paterson is 0-1.
SCOUTING THE HAWKS (1-0): A three-goal surge in the final 10 minutes of regulation helped lead New Paltz to a 4-0 season-opening win over non-conference Western Connecticut State University on Saturday afternoon at the Turf Field... Senior midfielder
Deirdre O'Neill tied a single-game program with three assists in the contest, while junior back and junior forward/midfielder
Dani Ackerman got involved multiple times, too, with Caruana notching one goal and two assists and Ackerman burying two goals... Sophomore forward
Kayla McKeveny accounted for the Hawks' other goal... Junior goalkeeper
Alayna Wageman kept a clean sheet for New Paltz, making two stops.
STATISTICAL LEADERS: Ackerman leads the team in goals with two, while O'Neill is tops on the squad in assists with three... Ackerman is in a six-way tie for No. 1 in the SUNYAC in goals, while O'Neill leads the conference in assists... Wageman is the only Hawk goalkeeper to have seen action so far this season, boasting two saves, a 1.000 save percentage and a 0.00 goals-against average to her credit... Her save percentage and goals-against average lead the SUNYAC.
TEAM STATISTICS: The Hawks have scored four goals as a team and have allowed none... They hold a 21-5 edge in shots and a 21-3 cushion in penalty corners against their opponents... New Paltz leads the SUNYAC in goals per game (4.0) and goals allowed per game (0.0).
SCOUTING THE PIONEERS (0-1): William Paterson lost a 3-2 heartbreaker to Farleigh Dickinson University-College at Florham on Friday evening in the season opener for both teams at Wightman Stadium... FDU-Florham scored the first goal of the game at 15:43, but freshman forward Katie Stetser knotted the tally right before halftime with a score in the 34th minute... A goal by junior forward Angelica Giammetta put the Pioneers ahead at 43:33, but the Devils answered back at 63:00 to level the score... In the 86th minute, FDU-Florham ended the game with a penalty-stroke goal... Junior goalkeeper Meg Davies made 14 saves in between the posts for the Pioneers.
STATISTICAL LEADERS: Stetser and Giammetta each boast a goal for William Paterson on the season, while senior midfielder Courtnaey Chelf leads the team in assists with one... Davies leads the team in all the goalkeeping categories: saves (14), goals-against average (2.44) and save percentage (.824).
TEAM STATISTICS: William Paterson has been outscored, 3-2, on the year and outshot by a 22-5 margin... Opponents also outgain the Pioneers in penalty-corner attempts (11-3).
LAST MEETING:
New Paltz edged William Paterson, 5-4, in overtime when the two teams met last year on Sept. 4 in New Paltz, N.Y. WHAT'S NEXT: New Paltz returns home on Saturday, Sept. 6, contesting Utica College at 1 p.m... William Paterson next visits Bryn Mawr College on Saturday, Sept. 6, at 1 p.m.
