#4 UMass Lowell takes 5-1 win over Franklin Pierce
Abernethy scores her fourth goal of the season; Huszar sets new single-season assists record with her sixth helper of the year
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Ashley Abernethy netted a
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LOWELL, Mass. (October 16,
2007) – Sammy Macy (Tewksbury, Mass./Tewksbury)
scored twice and added an assist as the University of
Massachusetts-Lowell, ranked fourth in this week’s NFHCA Div.
II National Coaches Poll, defeated Franklin Pierce University by a
5-1 margin on Tuesday evening in a Northeast-10 Conference field
hockey match at the Cushing Field Complex.
Sophomore Ashley Abernethy (Bellingham,
Mass./Bellingham) moved into a tie for second on the
Ravens with her fourth goal of the season at the 20:03 mark, as the
forward deflected a shot from graduate student Mary Beth
Huszar (Greenville, N.H./Mascenic Regional) past UMass
Lowell goaltender Danielle Dodier (Kensington, NH, St. Thomas
Aquinas) and into the back of the net.
With her sixth assist of the 2007 season, Huszar surpassed the
school’s single-season assist record of five set in 2000 by
both Karen Clarke ’00 and Kristen Clarke ’00, while
also extending her point total to 26, also a single-season record
at Franklin Pierce.
Macy began the scoring 1:46 into the match, beating freshman
goaltender Tevis Hannington (Canton, Mass./Notre Dame
Academy) in a one-on-one battle in front of the Raven net.
After Abernethy evened the score later in the first, the River
Hawks’ Jaci Moulton (Baldwinville, Mass./Narragansett)
provided the book end to the first half with the game-winning goal,
coming with 1:48 remaining in the opening half.
UMass Lowell scored three more times in the second half to account
for the final score, with Macy and teammate Molly Clay (Rockport,
Mass./Rockport) each scoring once and adding an assist. Hannington
made five saves on the evening for the Ravens.
Franklin Pierce (1-16, 1-13 NE-10) will play its final road game
of the 2007 season on Thursday afternoon, as the Ravens take on
Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., beginning at 3 p.m.
UMass Lowell (14-2, 13-1 NE-10) will battle another
nationally-ranked opponent in Bentley College on Thursday
night.