Box Score  | Season Stats

ORONO, Maine – The Northeastern field hockey team (5-8) received goals from Emmy Zweserijn and Lindsay Bennett, but a last minute goal from Maine downed the Huskies in a back and forth battle on Sunday afternoon, 3-2.

NU was held to five shots during the contest, while the Black Bears generated 11. Freshman Becky Garner made four stops for Northeastern, which earned three corner opportunities to Maine's nine.

The Huskies jumped out to a 1-0 less than four minutes into the game when Zweserijn netted her team-leading seventh goal of the season on a blast that beat Black Bear goalkeeper Natasha Ford (three saves). Maine, however, would level the score at one just 42 seconds later when Cassidy Svetek pounded home a loose ball in the center of the circle for her fifth goal of the season.

The Black Bears would take their first lead of the afternoon coming out of the halftime break as Sydney Veljacic notched her third of the year. After Fran Rowely received a pass following a corner, Rowely hammered a shot towards goal that Veljacic got a piece of to redirect it past Garner.

Bennett would tie the game 10 minutes later in the 59th minute when she tipped in a shot from Vanessa Pryor at the left side of the cage for her sixth goal of the season.

The score would stay that way until the final minute of regulation when the Black Bears earned their ninth corner of the afternoon. After Becca Paradee inserted the ball to Nicole Sevey stopping, Sevey dished to Annabelle Hamilton, who fired it past Garner for the game-winner.

The Huskies will return home next Sunday when Northeastern hosts Boston University for a 2 p.m. contest on Dedham Field.