BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- After a thrilling double overtime victory in the first round, the fourth seeded Moravian University field hockey squad is set to travel to top seed Susquehanna University for a 2023 Landmark Conference Semifinal match on Wednesday, November 1 at 7:00 p.m. in Selinsgrove.
Admission to Wednesday'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 Greyhounds defeated fifth seed Elizabethtown College, 2-1 in double overtime last Saturday in the first round, to set up the meeting with the River Hawks in the Semifinals. Wednesday's other Semifinal has second seed The Catholic University of America hosting third seed The University of Scranton after the Royals defeated sixth seeded Wilkes, 5-0, in the first round. 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 9-8 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 the program's first-ever Landmark Conference Tournament appearance in 2021 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. This season marks the third straight campaign that the Greyhounds have played in the Landmark Semifinals.
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 four assists. Junior forward Sydney Anderson has netted four goals and two assists, and she scored both goals in the First Round victory. Senior midfielder Sarah Bietka also has four goals and two assists while senior forward Hanna Leto has added three goals and a pair of assists.
Senior defender Jenna Segrave has registered two goals and three 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 83 saves to go with a 1.78 GAA, four shutouts and a 9-8 mark this season while playing 1,022 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 of defensive saves and Sutter has one defensive save.
Moravian fell to Susquehanna, 2-1, on October 14 when the squads met during the regular season also in Selinsgrove.
