Field Hockey Falls 1-0 To The Visiting MIT Engineers

BEVERLY, Mass. – The Endicott field hockey team fell 1-0 to the visiting MIT Engineers Thursday night at North Field behind an early goal from senior forward Siobhan Rigby (Richmond, Va).

With the loss, Endicott dropped to 4-5 overall (2-1 CCC), while MIT improved to 5-2, 1-0 in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC).

Rigby scored the lone goal of the night (unassisted) as she took a rebounded ball off the pad of senior goalkeeper Rose Bradley (Pottstown, Pa.) and elevated a shot that fell into the back left of the cage to put the Engineers up 1-0, just 3:37 into the contest.

The Endicott defense held strong and fought off 18 shots from the visitors, but the Gulls were unable to capitalize on a scoring opportunity as the Engineers won the penalty corner battle, 15-4, and limited Endicott to under 10 shots on goal for just the fourth time this season.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE

• The Gulls took four penalty corners, tied for their lowest of this season (4 each in a pair of losses to Babson and UMass Dartmouth.)
• This was the second time this season the Gulls have been shut out (5-0 loss to Babson on Sept. 4, 2015.) 
• Tonight's game was the second time all-time that the Gulls have been shut out by MIT (4-0 loss on Sept. 28, 2010 on the road.)
• The Gulls are 0-3 at home all-time vs. MIT.
• The last time the Gulls lost 1-0 was Oct. 2, 2013 at Salve Regina.
• The last time the Gulls lost 1-0 at home was Sept. 18, 2010 vs. Western New England.
• Bradley made nine saves in goal to surpass the 50 stops mark on the season (57 total saves).
• Senior defender Kristen O'Brien (New Boston, N.H.) earned her first defensive save of the season, giving her 11 in her career (three shy of the all-time program record held by Emily O'Halloran '12.)
• Both senior midfielder Ashleigh Allen (Glastonbury, Conn.) and senior forward Morgan Bresnahan (South Burlington, Vt.) put up four shots (three on goal) apiece for the Gulls.

FOR THE FOES

• Rigby scored her second goal of the season.
• Sophomore forward Emily Penn (Elkridge, Md.) paced the attack with eight shots (six on goal).
• Senior goalkeeper Evie Kyritsis (Mountain Lakes, N.J.) (5-1) made eight saves for the Engineers and earned her third shutout of the season (second consecutive).

NOTES

• MIT leads the all-time series, 6-1, dating back to the 2008 season.
• Endicott won last year's meeting, 1-0, with a goal by Emily Sawchuck in the 57th minute on the road to snap a five-game losing streak against the Engineers.
• The teams have both suffered a 3-2 loss this season at the hands of UNE.
• MIT beat UMass Dartmouth, 4-3 (September 5), while the Gulls fell 2-1 on September 10.

WHAT'S NEXT

Endicott (4-5, 2-1 CCC) goes on the road for a 6:00 p.m. matchup with Nichols College on Saturday, September 26.

MIT (5-2, 1-0 NEWMAC) travels to Worcester, Mass. to face NEWMAC foe WPI on Saturday, September 26 at 10:00 a.m.

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