MANCHESTER, N.H. (October 4, 2022) -- The rain started falling after halftime in the Queen City on Tuesday night, just in time for the Franklin Pierce University field hockey team to wash away a long losing streak. Facing a 1-0 halftime deficit, the Ravens got third-quarter goals just 72 seconds apart from sophomore Caity Hazley (Kingston, Mass.) and senior Christine Jarowicz (Kennebunk, Maine), the latter of which stood as the game-winner in a 2-1, non-conference victory over Southern New Hampshire at Larkin Field. The win snapped a 15-game losing streak for Franklin Pierce, which had not won in 366 days, since a 6-0 victory at home over Molloy on Oct. 3, 2021.

With the win, Franklin Pierce improves to 1-7, while SNHU falls to 2-5. The contest was the first of two this week between the two teams, who will meet at Franklin Pierce on Saturday, for their Northeast-10 Conference contest. Game time is set for noon at Sodexo Field. SNHU has a Thursday trip to Adelphi squeezed in between the two contests.

SNHU rang up a 12-1 advantage in shot attempts in the first quarter on Tuesday, and struck for the only goal of the first half in the 12^th minute. A trio of Penmen combined to work the ball up the right wing, capped by senior Audrey Canfield heading a 2-on-1 rush into the circle. Canfield played the ball past the last defender, which set up a footrace between Franklin Pierce sophomore goalkeeper Addy Araneo (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and SNHU senior Taylor Marchman inside the circle. Araneo came up empty on the charge off her line, which allowed Marchman to corral the loose ball and slot it into the cage for her first goal of the season.

SNHU would hold the 1-0 lead through halftime, but a pair in quick succession late in the third quarter would turn the tide in favor of the Ravens. The equalizer came in the 42^nd minute, after freshman Nina Depew (Acton, Mass.) picked up a loose ball in the midfield to short-circuit a SNHU clearance attempt. Depew carried forward, reversed her stick and played a feed into the middle of the circle. Hazley took the pass near the penalty spot, took a touch to the left, and then put a reverse-stick shot between the pads of SNHU junior goalkeeper Nichole Roberts for her team-leading fourth goal of the campaign. For Depew, the assist marked her first collegiate point.

It took just 72 seconds from there for Franklin Pierce to find the game-winner, off a penalty corner in the 43^rd minute. The insert came to senior Meghan Winn (Newburyport, Mass.), just to the right of the top of the circle. Winn held for a moment and drew two defenders her way, before dishing off to the left side for Jarowicz. Jarowicz had a marker left to beat, took two touches towards the left post to go around the outside and open a shooting lane, then reversed her stick and put the ball towards the net. The shot slipped past the outstretched left pad of Roberts, popped off the stick of the final SNHU defender in the goalmouth, and ricocheted to the back of the cage for Jarowicz's first score of the year, which would stand as the game-winner.

Interestingly, it was Jarowicz's first goal since the last time Franklin Pierce tasted victory, in the aforementioned game against Molloy on Oct. 3, 2021.

In a game which was a bit of a shooting gallery at times, Franklin Pierce saw out the game soundly after claiming the lead. The Ravens surrendered a pair of penalty corners at the tail end of the third, but allowed just one shot between them, which Araneo turned aside. SNHU put just one shot on target in the final quarter, which Araneo also stopped, in the 48^th minute. The Penmen did not record a shot attempt in the final 10 minutes of the game.

Araneo (1-3) was ultimately credited with a career-best 21 saves against 22 shots in the victory for the Ravens. It was the most saves for a Franklin Pierce goalkeeper in nearly 19 years, since Brandi Guertin also stopped 21, against Bentley on Oct. 25, 2003.

Roberts (0-1) finished with 10 saves against 12 shots in defeat for SNHU.