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UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER YELLOWJACKETS
Katie Flaschner
2
Skidmore SKIDMORE (13-5)
3
Winner Rochester ROC (16-4)
Skidmore SKIDMORE
(13-5)
2
Final
3
Rochester ROC
(16-4)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 OT 1 F
Skidmore SKIDMORE 1 1 0 2
Rochester ROC 1 1 1 3

Game Recap: Field Hockey |

Flaschner's OT Goal Lifts UR Past Skidmore



Junior midfielder Katie Flaschner (East Amherst, NY/Nichols School) scored with 2:43 left in the first sudden death period as the University of Rochester edged Skidmore College, 3-2, in the semifinals of the Liberty League field hockey championships at Edwin Fauver Stadium.
 
Flaschner's goal puts Rochester into the Liberty League championship game against William Smith College on Saturday in Geneva. The Yellowjackets have never played in the Liberty title game. Rochester is 16-4 and ranked No. 19 in the current Division III poll conducted by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association. The Liberty League champion earns an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III playoffs.
 
Skidmore College finished its season at 13-5. The Thoroughbreds are ranked No. 14 in the current poll. Skidmore, Rochester, and RPI all tied for second place in the league this season with 4-2 records. A tiebreaker against common opponents made RPI the fourth seed – the Engineers lost, 3-2, at William Smith. Rochester earned the number two seed and the right to host the semifinal on the basis of its 3-1 win over Skidmore at Fauver on October 5.
 
Flaschner scored two goals for Rochester and created the first when her shot led to a penalty stroke, scored by Allison Resnick (Mendon, VT/Rutland).
 
Sam Skott (Buskirk, NY/Hoosick Falls) and Dani DeGregory (Greenwich, NY/Greenwich) scored for the Thoroughbreds. DiGregory and Ceilidh MacNeuill (Framingham, MA/St. Mark's School) had assists.
 
Rochester goaltender Madison Wagner (Cheswick, PA./Fox Chapel) made 10 saves on 22 shots. Haley McDougalll (Saratoga Springs, NY/Saratoga Springs) had 10 saves for Skidmore.
 
The Yellowjackets dominated the early going, earning 14 penalty corners and outshooting the Thoroughbreds, 15-6. Just over five minutes into the match, Sarah Dixon (Fairport, NY/Fairport) played the ball out to Flaschner on the wing. She lifted a shot towards the upper right hand corner. It got over McDougall, but a Skidmore defender touched the ball and a stroke was awarded. Resnick converted for a 1-0 lead at 5:13.
 
Skidmore drew level at 23:10. MacNeill inserted a penalty corner to DeGregory on the left side. She pushed it across the face of the goal and Skott was able to tip it in at the back post.
 
The Throughbreds stepped up the pressure in the second half. Ten minutes in, Rochester's Kathryn Montgomery (Garden City, NY/Garden City) made a defensive save on a shot by Pauline Searles (Glens Falls, NY/Glens Falls). With 13:39 left, the visitors took the lead. DeGregory picked up a loose ball 30 yards from goal. She ran into the circle, moved to her right, and lined a shot between Wagner's legs and into the lower left corner of the cage.

Flaschner got the equalizer with 8:20 remaining and nearly scored the gamewinner 90 seconds later. After the Yellowjackets played a penalty corner outside the circle, the ball came to Michelle Relin (Lititz, PA/Manheim Township). She pushed it into Gina Cunningham (Pittsburgh, PA/Shady Side Academy) and Cunningham's pass went into the middle of the circle. Flaschner lunged and lifted the ball over McDougall's left shoulder into the right side of the cage.
 
On another Rochester penalty corner, Flaschner lifted a shot for the upper right hand corner but McDougall reacted at the last instant, getting her stick up to push it over the endline.
 
DeGregory and MacNeill were Skidmore's most effective attackers, combining for 11 shots, seven on goal. With 2:46 left, MacNeill got deep in the box and tried to shove the ball inside the right post, but Wagner kicked it away.
 
Rochester's defenders – Alexa Freedman (Pittsford, NY/Penfield), Montgomery, Dixon, and Resnick – were superb throughout, deflecting balls away from attackers deep in the circle and interrupting the passing game.
 
Skidmore earned 10 penalty corners in the overtime period, leading to nine shots. Wagner produced five of her saves in this stretch.
 
Late in the overtime, the Yellowjackets rushed downfield. The ball was played around the circle and came into the middle where Flaschner lunged for it and backhanded the ball from 12 yards out on the left side past McDougall and into the right corner of the cage.