GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (October 23, 2021) - Graduate student Danielle Kempf scored twice and added an assist on Saturday afternoon, as No. 9 nationally ranked Adelphi handed the Franklin Pierce University field hockey team a 6-1 defeat in Northeast-10 Conference play at Motamed Field. Senior Feline van Doorn (Barendrecht, Netherlands) found the net in defeat for the Ravens.

With the loss, Franklin Pierce falls to 3-13 (1-11 NE10) and has lost six in a row, while Adelphi improves to 11-4 (9-3 NE10) and has won eight straight.

Adelphi jumped out to a 2-0 lead with goals just 59 seconds apart in the middle of the first quarter. First, in the eighth minute, the Franklin Pierce defense gained control on a corner, but Adelphi forced a turnover before the Ravens could clear. From the top of the circle, graduate student Jackie Brown sent the ball back towards the goal, and fellow graduate student Kelsey Catalano had the finish on her sixth of the year in front of the right post.

Brown notched one of her own, her first of the campaign, at the eight-minute mark. After taking the ball at the top of the circle on a corner play, Brown and Kempf connected on a give-and-go, and then Brown lifted her shot past Franklin Pierce junior goalkeeper MacKenzie Potvin (Goffstown, N.H.).

The Ravens got on the board with their only goal of the game in the 10^th minute. Freshman Caity Hazley (Kingston, Mass.) played the ball ahead from the midfield, and a cutting Christine Jarowicz (Kennebunk, Maine) got her stick to it, to deflect it around a defender at the edge of the circle. The junior's redirection found van Doorn in the circle, and the Dutchwoman took care of business from there to tally her team-leading 10^th goal of the season. She currently ranks eighth in the NE10 in goals scored.

Adelphi made it 3-1 with the second quarter's only goal, which came just 3.5 seconds prior to halftime. A late rush into the circle resulted in a penalty stroke, which junior Morgan Minicozzi lifted into the left side of the cage for her third goal of the year.

The Panthers tacked on three more in the second half to push the final margin out to 6-1. In the 38^th minute, junior Giana McKeough finished off a cross from the right from Minicozzi for the former's 13^th goal of the season. In the 43^rd, Kempf put a lofted reverse-stick shot away from the left side of the circle for her fourth of the year. Kempf then completed her fourth career multiple-goal game in the 53^rd minute with a drive from the top of the circle.

Potvin (0-5) finished with 12 saves against 18 shots in a losing effort in front of the Franklin Pierce cage. Sophomore Amanda Montiel (8-4) stopped one of the two shots on her goal at the other end of the field at Adelphi.

The Ravens will be back home this week for the season's final two games. Franklin Pierce will host St. Thomas Aquinas at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 26, and Pace at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 30.