Taylor
leads Bobcats to home-opener win
By Mark Spillane, QBSN Staff Writer
On a sunny
Sunday afternoon at Quinnipiac’s beautiful Mount Carmel campus, the Bobcats
field hockey team moved to 2-0 on the year with a 3-1 victory over the Towson
Tigers.
Junior captain Jennalise
Taylor (Yardley, Pa.) powered the Bobcats to their home opener win with a goal
and two assists. She got the scoring started with her second goal in as many
games just two minutes into the first half. She then assisted on the Bobcats’
second goal, setting up freshman Meghan McCullough (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.) with
a nice pass across the circle.
Towson cut into
the Bobcats lead in the second half when senior Janine Kovach made a beautiful
deflection to get the ball past Quinnipiac goalie, Nicole Lewis (Sr. East
Amherst, NY.)
However, Taylor
helped the Bobcats respond, setting up senior Kristin Engelke (Medford, N.J.)
for a goal just three minutes later to put the game out of the Tigers’ reach.
Bobcats’ head
coach, Becca Main, was impressed with her team.
“We did all the
three things we wanted to work on today, obviously finishing strong inside the
circle, drawing a lot of corners [shots], and doing a good job finding our key
players.”
Taylor is one of
those key players, and she certainly led the way today. Another is Lewis. She
made six saves on the day to earn the victory, including a diving stop with 10
minutes remaining in the second half to keep the Bobcats in front.
Main also noted
that her team’s depth is another one of its strengths.
“For us to be
able to have depth, to have four or five sideline players that we’re feeling
comfortable with, you can rest your top players and give them a break,” she
said.
Using that depth
to keep those top players fresh results in victories, just as it did Sunday.
The Bobcats will
look to add another tally to the win column this Friday, Aug. 31 when they host
the Eagles of Boston College.
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