Huszar scores twice to set new single-season points record at Franklin Pierce

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RINDGE, N.H. (October 13, 2007) – Grad student Mary Beth Huszar (Greenville, N.H./Mascenic Regional) scored twice, but Franklin Pierce University fell to Southern Connecticut State University by a score of 4-3 in a Northeast-10 Conference women’s field hockey match on Franklin Pierce Alumni and Reunion Weekend on Saturday afternoon at Sodexho Field.

Huszar and Southern’s Kim Merritt (Norwalk, Conn./Norwalk) tied for the game high with two goals each, as Huszar scored the Ravens’ first two goals and Merritt tallied the final two for her team, including the game-winner. Ashley Moirano (South Burlington, Vt./South Burlington) also scored for the Ravens, bringing the team back within one goal with a 64th-minute tally.

With her two goals, Huszar set a new single-season scoring record at Franklin Pierce with 25 points, passing the 23 points of Heidi Nichols ’00 and Karen Clarke ’00, both in 2000. The grad student, who is tied for the school’s single-season assist record with five, is also one goal away from tying the single-season goals mark of 11 held by Nichols as well.

The Ravens controlled play for much of the afternoon, holding a 15-9 edge in shots and a 9-6 advantage in shots on goal. The Owls’ Lauren Zarrella (Morris, Conn./Wamogo) was forced to make six saves in earning the win, while Ravens freshman Tevis Hannington (Canton, Mass./Notre Dame Academy) turned away two shots for Franklin Pierce.

Huszar got the home team on the board early, scoring an unassisted tally 65 seconds into the match after taking the ball down the left flank and beating Zarrella to the short side. After Kate Gedney (Westbrook, Conn./New Hampshire) and Whitney Martin (Harwington, Conn./Lewis Mills) gave the Owls a one-goal lead, Huszar struck again at the 23:32 mark, receiving the rebound of her own shot and stuffing the ball into the net. Freshman Nicole Henrique (Swansea, Mass./Joseph Case) recorded an assist on Huszar’s second goal.

Merritt gave her team a lead heading into halftime with a goal from about six yards out with 1:17 left on the clock, and she then provided the eventual game-winning goal with just over nine minutes remaining in regulation, as Grace Martha (Cheshire, Conn./Cheshire) found Merritt for the second time in front of the net.

The goal became necessary after Moirano scored her second goal of the season at the 63:54 mark, as classmate Emily Morrissey (Hubbardston, Mass./Quabbin Regional) dished from the right post to an open Moirano in front of the Owls’ net.

Franklin Pierce (1-15, 1-12 NE-10) will take to the road for two matches in its final road trip of the 2007 season, beginning on Tuesday night at fourth-ranked UMass Lowell. Southern Connecticut State (7-11, 6-8 NE-10) returns home to take on Assumption on Tuesday evening.