TCNJ

The Stevens Field Hockey Team started off their 2010 season on September 1st with our first game against The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). This was an exciting time for the whole team. We traveled down to Trenton, NJ for our first away trip of the season. It was the freshman's first collegiate game and there was great anticipation of who would have those 11 starting positions on the field. The whole team was excited and pumped up to have the opportunity of playing this top ranked team as the season opener. The game started with a lot of intensity from both teams. Our goalkeeper Ellyn Griggs made a great play early in the game by stopping a breakaway and taking out a TCNJ player to deny her of a goal. TCNJ out shot us the first half by 3 shots but we were able to keep them scoreless and went into halftime tied 0-0. We talked during halftime of what we had to do as a team to dominate this game and come out with a win. We needed to get the ball into our offense and generate some shots. We wanted to win and we had the confidence of beating this team. We had a lot more opportunities on offense the second half, generating 2 offensive corners, but TCNJ was able to score in the 61st minute of the game. We unfortunately could not tie the game up within the last 9 minutes of the game so TCNJ came out with the win. We were happy with how we played as a team, especially for our first game of the season and while playing a very skilled top ranked team. We knew we still had a lot of kinks to work out and we knew what we would have to work on to try to fix our mistakes and to come out on top in the following games. This game showed a lot of heart and intensity from a lot of players on this team and it was a great way to start off the season!

Let Go Ducks!!!

-Karen Federico