BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- The Moravian University field hockey team has earned the fourth seed in the 2023 Landmark Conference Tournament and will host fifth seed Elizabethtown College for a first round match on Saturday, October 28 at 1:00 p.m. on John Makuvek Field.
Admission to Saturday's match is $7 for adults and $4 for minors ages 10-17 and seniors 62 and older. Children ages nine and under are admitted free of charge, as are all Landmark Conference students, faculty and staff with their school ID. Tickets can be purchased via Hometown Ticketing at https://landmarkconference.org/sports/2022/4/25/championships-tickets.aspx?path=champs.
With the addition of Lycoming College and Wilkes University to the Landmark Conference in 2023-24, all postseason tournaments have expanded to six teams with the top two seeds earning first round byes. The winner of the Moravian/Elizabethtown match will travel to top seed Susquehanna University for a semifinal match on Wednesday, November 1. Saturday's other first round contest has sixth seed Wilkes University heading to third seed The University of Scranton at 7:00 p.m., and the winner of that match will head to second seed The Catholic University of America for the other semifinal contest on November 1. The 2023 Landmark Conference Championships match is set for Saturday, November 4 at the highest remaining seed for the conference title and a berth to the 2023 NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament.
The Greyhounds, who are 8-8 overall and were 6-3 in the Landmark Conference regular season, are under the direction of fourth-year Head Coach Sarah Dalrymple, who is in her third season on the field with the 2020 campaign cancelled by the pandemic. Dalrymple led Moravian to a historic season in 2021 with the program earning its first-ever Landmark Conference Tournament appearance and the first postseason berth for the Greyhounds since 1987, and the Hounds followed that up by making the conference championship match for the first time in program history last fall after being the fourth seed in the 2022 tournament.
Sophomore forward Gia Ambrosino leads the Greyhounds with eight goals and a pair of assists while senior defender Onalee Long has contributed four goals and three assists. Senior midfielder Sarah Bietka has four goals and two assists while senior forward Hanna Leto has added threw goals and a pair of assists.
Junior forward Sydney Anderson and senior defender Jenna Segrave have both registered two goals and two assists while sophomore forward Brooke Sodl has recorded two goals and an assist. Senior midfielder Maria Tice has two assists this fall while junior midfielder Savannah Sutter and senior forward Bekkah Kehoe each have one assist.
Freshman goalie Maia Machado has made 79 saves to go with a 1.85 GAA, four shutouts and an 8-8 mark this season while playing 948 minutes in the cage for the Hounds while sophomore goalie Jessica Knox has seen 25 minutes of action and combined with Machado on a shutout of Goucher College to end the regular season.
Segrave has also registered four defensive saves while Long has a pair pf defensive saves and Sutter has one defensive save.
Moravian defeated the Blue Jays, 4-0, on October 18 when the squads met during the regular season on John Makuvek Field.
