2008 Woodie Awards
Field Hockey beginning to make strides in A-10
Frank Stern
Issue date: 10/22/07 Section: Sports
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The West Chester Lady Ram's Field Hockey squad won two conference games last week while breaking two school records at Richmond and home against St. Louis.
On Oct. 12, West Chester (5-10, 2-3) traveled to Richmond to clash with the Lady Spiders for their third consecutive conference road match-up. Richmond entered the contest as winners of 44 straight Atlantic-10 conference games.
West Chester entered fired up after losing the opening two division games at Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
"We had a good team meeting [after the losses]," Head Coach Kathy Krannebitter said. "I think it was good for us. More importantly, I kind of changed up practice. We started making things more competitive and conditional, and the team responded well to that."
The Lady Rams responded opening up a 3-0 lead over Richmond in the first half, a feat that, according to Krannebitter, "stunned the daylights" out of the team.
Freshman Alex Swayze, junior Marisa Holzman and senior Shelly Brooks tallied goals before the 20-minute mark.
"We talked all week about starting the way we want, not sitting back and waiting to see what the other team does," Krannebitter said. "We are talented, but now I think we see how important it is to start confident and strong."
Richmond responded before halftime behind Adrian Pickar who scored to cut the deficit to 3-1. Shortly after halftime, Jess Weidner brought the Spiders back with striking distance, 3-2, with her first goal of the season.
The Lady Rams responded behind Swayze's second goal of the contest and the Rams held Richmond off the board for the rest of the contest as Joelle Zarefoss entered with 20 minutes left and kept the Spiders off the board recording four saves.
"A team like Richmond had complete dominance over this conference since 2001," Krannebitter said. "No one had been able to beat them. To finally find the confidence to do that is tremendous."
The victory not only broke Richmond's streak of 44 consecutive victories but evaporated West Chester's eight-game losing streak and 13-game conference losing streak.
On Oct. 12, West Chester (5-10, 2-3) traveled to Richmond to clash with the Lady Spiders for their third consecutive conference road match-up. Richmond entered the contest as winners of 44 straight Atlantic-10 conference games.
West Chester entered fired up after losing the opening two division games at Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
"We had a good team meeting [after the losses]," Head Coach Kathy Krannebitter said. "I think it was good for us. More importantly, I kind of changed up practice. We started making things more competitive and conditional, and the team responded well to that."
The Lady Rams responded opening up a 3-0 lead over Richmond in the first half, a feat that, according to Krannebitter, "stunned the daylights" out of the team.
Freshman Alex Swayze, junior Marisa Holzman and senior Shelly Brooks tallied goals before the 20-minute mark.
"We talked all week about starting the way we want, not sitting back and waiting to see what the other team does," Krannebitter said. "We are talented, but now I think we see how important it is to start confident and strong."
Richmond responded before halftime behind Adrian Pickar who scored to cut the deficit to 3-1. Shortly after halftime, Jess Weidner brought the Spiders back with striking distance, 3-2, with her first goal of the season.
The Lady Rams responded behind Swayze's second goal of the contest and the Rams held Richmond off the board for the rest of the contest as Joelle Zarefoss entered with 20 minutes left and kept the Spiders off the board recording four saves.
"A team like Richmond had complete dominance over this conference since 2001," Krannebitter said. "No one had been able to beat them. To finally find the confidence to do that is tremendous."
The victory not only broke Richmond's streak of 44 consecutive victories but evaporated West Chester's eight-game losing streak and 13-game conference losing streak.
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