Field Hockey | 10/9/2014 2:33:00 PM

 
STORYLINE
The Huskies travel to East Stroudsburg looking for redemption after losing 4-2 last season to Warriors on the road.

LAST MEETING
Bloomsburg fell to East Stroudsburg last season 4-2. Brittany Mathews scored Bloomsburg's first goal of the game at the 41:05 mark. Candice Smith scored off a deflection from Mathews for the Huskies to bring it within one with just under eight minutes to play. Mathews finished with a goal and an assist while Smith had a goal for the Huskies. In net for Bloomsburg Megan Eppley made three saves. The Huskies fall to 0-2 on the season while the Warriors improve to 2-1.

SCOUTING EAST STROUDSBURG
East Stroudsburg fell to West Chester 6-1 on Friday, Oct. 3.  Junior forward Ally Roth scored on an assist from senior midfielder Gabrielle Seibert with 5:56 left for ESU (4-5, 3-3), which has dropped three straight games after a 4-2 start. Sophomore goalkeeper Danielle Ard made a career-high 11 saves for the Warriors.
 
Roth leads Division II with 10 goals and 23 points and ranks second in goals per game (1.67) and points per game (3.83) for the Warriors. Roth is the fourth-leading active scorer in DII field hockey with 41 career goals, coming in 43 games. She led the PSAC with 21 goals and 47 points in 2013.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
Bloomsburg leads the all-time series with East Stroudsburg 44-6.

LAST TIME OUT
Senior Candice Smith and sophomore Laura Gerhard each scored one goal and assisted on another for a 4-3 win over Mansfield on Saturday, Oct. 4. On the play Candice Smith directed the ball out to the top of the circle where Laura Gerhard ended up with the ball on the right side. Gerhard then passed to Smith coming in from the left side who had an easy shot for a shot for a goal making it 1-0 at the break. The Huskies added to their lead just 5:06 into the second half when Stephanie Halsted fed Gerhard who drilled a shot to the top center of the cage. Bloomsburg made it 3-0 about 11 minutes later. Nikki Gattone scored off an assist from Samantha Peters with Gattone's shot going high and to the left in the cage. The Huskies made it a three-goal game again in the 61st minute when Smith, outside of the circle, passed the ball inside the circle where Meagen Hill stopped it and drilled a shot to the right side of the cage.
 
UP NEXT
The Huskies travel to Kutztown on Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m.

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