Towson University Athletics

TOWSON, Md. - The Towson University field hockey team lost to Drexel in Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) action on Friday at the TU Field Hockey Complex. The Tigers (5-10, 0-5 CAA) fought back from a 4-0 deficit to make it a two-goal game, but the Dragons (11-3, 3-1 CAA) would pull away from there to defeat Towson 5-2.
 
Key Stats

• The Tigers attempted 16 shots putting 13 on goal and earned nine penalty corners against 15 shots with 12 on target and two penalty corners from the Dragons.
• Else Wismans scored her first goal of the season and added an assist.
• Josefina Sayal Aguirre scored her first of the year as well.
• Delfina Larripa notched a pair of assists.
• Gianna Tripodi tallied her second assist of the season.
• Stevie Schultz made a defensive save.
• Riley Redding receives the loss after allowing five goals against six saves.
• For Drexel, Valentine van Hellemont and Fleur Hamers each had multi-point games. Halle Geiger earned the win in goal making 11 saves against two goals allowed.

 
Key Situations

• 1^st Quarter: The Tigers started the game quickly as a high turnover allowed the Tigers to earn a pair of penalty corners in the first minute. But Delfina Larripa and Anouk Westerink were both twice denied by the Drexel goalie. Drexel would score to take a 1-0 lead three minutes later and netted again in the final minute of the period made it 2-0.
• 2^nd Quarter: Both sides traded shots for the first ten minutes of the second quarter with both goalies making three saves in the period and Stevie Schultz making a defensive save on a shot from a Drexel corner to keep the deficit at two. However, Drexel would score again with three minutes left in the quarter to take a 3-0 halftime lead.
• 3^rd Quarter: Towson created early chances in the second half as well with Westerink and Jillian LaBar both denied by the Dragon's keeper. Drexel then made it 4-0 with nine minutes left in the quarter. The rest of the quarter was all Tigers as Else Wismans scored from a corner to make it 4-1 then another Tiger corner saw Josefina Sayal Aguirre score to see the Drexel lead cut in half in a five-minute span.
• 4^th Quarter: The Tigers were unable to maintain the momentum into the fourth quarter as Drexel scored six minutes into the period to push Towson's deficit back to three. One more Tiger penalty corner saw Sayal Aguirre denied by the Drexel goalie's eleventh save and the game ended from there with a 5-2 scoreline.

 
Behind the Numbers

• Else Wismans scored her first career goal and had her first career multi-point game.
• Josefina Sayal Aguirre scored her first goal as a Tiger after transferring from Saint Francis.
• The Tigers scored from multiple corners for the second time this season, the first time coming against Fairfield on September 25.

 
Next Game

• The Tigers are back in action Sunday, October 25 at 11 a.m. when Towson will host UC Davis for senior day.