FAIRFIELD, Conn. – The nation's leading scoring offense faced a Fairfield squad that has allowed just one goal per game and came away with a massive victory. The Northeastern field hockey team took down No. 23 Fairfield on Friday afternoon 6-4 and in doing so ended a couple of long streaks.
With the win, the Huskies (6-2) snapped Fairfield's (7-2) seven-game win-streak that saw them enter the national rankings this week. The win also snapped a 32-game losing streak to ranked teams for the Huskies that dated back to a 3-2 double overtime victory over No. 8 Boston College on Oct. 5, 2014.
Thirty-three games later the streak ended.
Kasidy Anderson,
Camille O'Conor and
Lauren Rowe all tallied two goals apiece in the victory for the Huskies. It marked Anderson's first multi-goal field hockey game, O'Conor's first multi-goal game of the season and Rowe's fourth 5+ point game of the season and third-straight.
For the third time this season, the Huskies got out to a 1-0 lead in the third minute of action striking first over the Stags. The goal was also the seventh in the first 10 minutes of action for the Huskies this season. O'Conor put the Huskies on the scoreboard with some assistance from Rowe over the ranked Stags.
In the second quarter, Anderson doubled the Huskies lead with a wrist shot past the Fairfield keeper. She and
Alli Meehan raced out on a 2-on-1 that beat the last defender as they toyed with the keeper for the score. The goal was Anderson's fifth of the year to give NU a 2-0 lead at the half.
Anderson added another in the third quarter to make it a 3-0 game. After the Stags got one back, the first EVER goal for Fairfield against Northeastern in program history, Rowe capitalized on a penalty stroke for the second-straight game to give the Huskies a 4-1 advantage.
Fairfield got on back on a penalty corner but Rowe and O'Conor took advantage of some sloppy play by the Stag defense to make it a 6-2 game. Fairfield came on strong towards the end but the Huskies were able to hold them off for the victory.
Northeastern wraps up the weekend in Winston-Salem on Sunday afternoon when they take on No. 21 Wake Forest at 1 p.m. on the ACC Network Xtra.
