GREENSBURG, PA - Seton Hill scored six unanswered goals to end the second half and as the Griffins pushed their win streak to three in a row with a 11-6 win over Slippery Rock University on Tuesday evening at Dick's Sporting Goods Field in Greensburg.
// NOTABLES
• Seton Hill improves to 6-5 overall, 4-2 in the PSAC.
• Slippery Rock drops to 3-6 on the year, 2-4 in the PSAC.
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Keagan Pontious led with a game-high three goals.
Ashley Ingram, and Alyssas Ference had two apiece.
Olivia Caragein,
Mackenzie Kilduff,
Jaclyn Frank, and
Taylor Fox-Trudel all chipped in a goal in the effort.
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Hailey Jacobs finished with seven saves in her 5th win of the year.
// HOW IT HAPPENED
• After trading goal-for-goal in the first half, it was Slippery Rock who scored the game's first back-to-back goals when ShyAnne Toomer and Sami Gentzler scored unassisted goals at 28:25 and 15:04 as the Rock took their first lead of the game, 6-5. However, the Griffins would run off six unanswered to overwhelm Slippery Rock.
Jaclyn Frank scored on an unassisted goal at 13:38 to tied the game at 6-6, and
Keagan Pontious found the back of the net for the go-ahead goal off of a
Taylor Fox-Trudel assist at 13:00.
Ashley Ingram's goal at 8:24 off another Fox-Trudel assist pushed the lead out to 8-6. Pontious and Ingram would score the next two goals at 6:09 and 2:14, and finally Fox-Trudel's goal with just under a minute left sealed the game for the Griffins, 11-6.
// UP NEXT
• SHU starts a three-game road trip when they travel to Shippensburg, PA to take on Shippensburg University on Saturday, April 6th. From there they travel to Mercyhurst on April 10th and Gannon on April 16th before finally coming home to battle Kutztown University on April 20th.
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