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BLOOMSBURG, Pa. - The eighth-ranked Bloomsburg University field hockey team scored four second-half goals to break open a 1-0 halftime advantage en route to a 5-1 victory over tenth-ranked Adelphi University on Tuesday afternoon at Steph Pettit Stadium. With the victory, the Huskies improved to 3-0 on the young season while the Panthers dropped to 0-3 on the year.

Senior MacKenna Mahan (Selinsgrove, Pa./Selinsgrove Area) and sophomore Willow Perkins (Bloomsburg, Pa./Central Columbia) paced the Huskies' offense with a goal and an assist each while sophomore Tesa Hoffman (Freeburg, Pa./Selinsgrove Area) was credited with a pair of helpers. Juniors Brooke Zeiders (Selinsgrove, Pa./Selinsgrove Area), Abby Sauder (Mount Joy, Pa./Donegal), and Erica Krebs (Bloomsburg, Pa./Central Columbia) also scored for Bloomsburg in the victory.

Zeiders got the Huskies on the scoreboard with the lone goal of the first half - her fourth marker of the season - when she banged home a rebound after Perkins took the initial shot exactly 16 minutes into the contest. The assist was Perkins' first point of the year and first point of her collegiate career.

Bloomsburg outshot Adelphi, 12-3, in the first half but Panthers' goalkeeper Amanda Gargiulo kept the visitors in the game with seven first-half saves.

The offense, which scored 14 goals in a pair of weekend victories, got going in the second half as the team used a pair of perfectly set-up penalty corners to break open the contest.

Sauder gave the Huskies a 2-0 lead nine and a-half minutes into the second half with her fourth goal of the season as she redirected a pass from MacKenna Mahan (Selinsgrove, Pa./Selinsgrove Area) at the side of the goal. Hoffman picked up the other helper after the tic-tac-toe passing. Just over a minute later, MacKenna Mahan (Selinsgrove, Pa./Selinsgrove Area) gave the hosts a 3-0 advantage when she redirected a pass from Hoffman into the back of the cage. Junior Tali Wehner (Bloomsburg, Pa./Bloomsburg) had the other assist on the marker.

Perkins extended the lead to 4-0 on her first collegiate goal midway through the second half when she took an outlet pass from Wehner, dribbled around a couple of Adelphi defenders, and beat Gargiulo on the far side at 54:39. Less than nine minutes later, at 63:04, Krebs buried her first goal of the season on a similar play to extend the lead to 5-0.

Adelphi broke up the shutout bid with just 32 seconds left in regulation when Danielle Kempf scored on a return pass from Elissa Frein during a penalty corner.

Freshman Dana Sheply (Maple Shade, N.J./Maple Shade) improved to 3-0 on the season as she posted a pair of saves in the victory. Gargiulo stopped 13 shots in the loss for Adelphi to fall to 0-3 on the year. Bloomsburg outshot the Panthers, 24-5, and also held a 13-5 advantage in penalty corners.

The victory sets up an early-season showdown on Saturday afternoon, September 9, when the Huskies host the defending national champion and top-ranked team in the country, Shippensburg University, in a non-conference contest at Steph Pettit Stadium. Start time is scheduled for 12:00 p.m.