NE10 Field Hockey Report: Week 9

Posted: Oct 30, 2023

Week 9 - October 30, 2023

NE10 Player of the Week

Millie Forster, Saint Anselm
Sophomore l Midfielder l Cholmondeley, Chesire, England

Forster notched two goals this week for Saint Anselm to help the team end the season with an 11-2 conference record. She scored once against Mercy and would tally the only goal in regulation time off a penalty stroke versus Assumption. She also made the first goal in the shoot-out to seal the 2-1 win and hand Assumption their first league loss of the season.

NE10 Defensive Player of the Week

Stephanie Sutton-Brown, Saint Anselm
Junior | Midfield | Ashby, Mass.

Sutton-Brown came up big for Saint Anselm after recording her first defensive save of her career against Assumption in double overtime. The Hawks would go on to hand the Greyhounds their first conference loss in a shoot-out and finished out the regular season with an 11-2 league record to secure the No. 2 seed.

NE10 Goalkeeper of the Week

Emma Peeters, Southern New Hampshire
Sophomore | Goalkeeper | Wageningen, The Netherlands

Sophomore Emma Peeters earned wins against AIC and STAC last week, making 12 saves total. She recorded nine saves in a 4-0 shutout win at AIC last Tuesday.

NE10 Rookie of the Week

Minke van de Poll
Freshman | Midfielder | Oosterbeek, The Netherlands

Minke van de Poll scored two more goals to bring her season total to 14, a Penmen freshman record. She also added an assist for five total points. van de Poll currently ranks tied for third in goals in the NE10.

NE10 Weekly Honor Roll

Brooke Szafran, American Int'l (Sr., M - Agawam, Mass.)
Szafran closed out the season in style in a shootout win in Rindge, scoring twice in a shootout, including the game-deciding tally in the seventh round after a strong performance defensively where she helped hold the Ravens to just one goal in 80 minutes.

Lily Daly, Assumption (Sr., F - Foxborough, Mass.)
Daly clinched the regular season title for the Greyhounds, with her overtime winner at Saint Michael's. In that game she scored two goal, with the first coming late in the fourth quarter. Daly assisted on Assumption's lone goal against Saint Anselm on Saturday.

Paige Gillette, Assumption (Jr., GK - Andover, Mass.)
Gillette went 1-1 on the week, as Assumption locked up the top seed in the Northeast-10 Conference playoffs. At Saint Michael's, she recorded five saves in a 4-3 OT win over the Purple Knights, which clinched the regular season title. On Saturday against Saint Anselm, she allowed one goal in 80 minutes, which was a penalty stroke.

Abigail Hewes, Bentley (Sr., M - Denmark, Maine)
Hewes helped Bentley record two shutouts in a 2-0 week. In the penalty shootout win over Pace she scored in the 4th round to keep the Falcons alive. She also defended all of the penalty corners against the Setters as Bentley recorded its 4th shutout in a row and 9th of the season.

Alexandra Giordano, Mercy (Jr., GK - Manorville, N.Y.)
Giordano went 1-1 in goal with 19 saves, a .760 save percentage and 3.24 goals-against average. The junior made nine saves at Saint Anselm on Tuesday. The goalkeeper ended the week with a game-high 10 saves and just one goal allowed in Mercy's 5-1 win over Southern Connecticut State on Friday.

Kate Ringstad, Mercy (Sr., M - Woodstock, Md.)
Ringstad had a team-high five points on the week as Mercy went 1-1. The senior opened the week with a goal and an assist at Saint Anselm on Tuesday and ended the week with the game-winning goal against Southern Connecticut State on Senior Day on Friday.

Bridgie Loughlin, Saint Michael's (Sr., F - Kingston, N.Y.)
Loughlin (Kingston, N.Y.) turned in two goals and two assists in her final game as a Purple Knight. She scored once and assisted two goals in a 4-3 overtime loss to Assumption on Wednesday before scoring against Adelphi in a 4-2 loss on Saturday.

Nicola Van Vuuren, Saint Thomas Aquinas (Jr., F - Preroia, South Africa)
Van Vuuren scored a pair of goals and added an assist over two games for the Spartans last week, including the game winning, double overtime tally at Molloy. The junior forward wraps up her 2023 season with a team-leading 11 goals, 6 assists and 28 points, and is among the top 10 players for both goals and points in the NE10.

Emma Thibodeau, Southern New Hampshire (Sr., F - Danvers, Mass.)
Thibodeau scored three goals last week as the Penmen won the final two games of the regular season at AIC and STAC.

NE10 Weekly Winners

2023 NE10 FIELD HOCKEY STANDINGS

	Conference				Overall
-	GP	W-L	PCT	GP	W-L	PCT
Assumption	13	12-1	0.923	23	16-7	0.696
Saint Anselm	13	11-2	0.846	22	18-4	0.818
Bentley	13	10-3	0.769	19	12-7	0.632
Pace	13	9-4	0.692	21	13-8	0.619
So. New Hampshire	13	9-4	0.692	18	10-8	0.556
Adelphi	13	8-5	0.615	19	10-9	0.526
Mercy	13	7-6	0.538	18	8-10	0.444
Franklin Pierce	13	5-8	0.385	17	6-11	0.353
New Haven	13	5-8	0.385	18	5-13	0.278
American Int'l	13	4-9	0.308	17	7-10	0.412
So. Connecticut	13	4-9	0.308	17	5-12	0.294
St. Thomas Aquinas	13	4-9	0.308	18	4-14	0.222
Saint Michael's	13	3-10	0.231	18	3-15	0.167
Molloy	13	0-13	0.000	15	0-15	0.000