Box Score WORCESTER, Mass. – Senior
Rachel Dalrymple (Belvidere, N.J.) scored her second goal of the season in Nichols College's 3-1 loss at WPI Thursday afternoon at Alumni Field.
Junior
Meghan Dombkowski (Sagaponack, N.Y.) collected an assist on the play for the Bison (2-10). Senior Mary-Lee Barboza (Rochester, Mass.) notched a pair of second half assists for the Engineers (8-3).
WPI opened the scoring at 14:54 when sophomore Allie Buckley (Worcester, Mass.) received a quick pass from junior Jena Mazzucco (Danbury, Conn.), who found the back of the cage for her third goal of the season.
After being outshot 8-1 through the opening 18 minutes, the Bison took five of the next six shots and attempted five corners. At 31:41, Dombkowski found Dalrymple with a pass, and she ripped home a shot from the top of the arc to knot the score at the break.
WPI struck for a pair in the opening 7:25 of the second stanza to nab the victory. Barboza got the rally started when she calmly drilled a pass perpendicular to the goal line to Libbi Richarson (Uxbridge, Mass.), who nailed a one-timer from three feet out for her second game-winner in as many contests and 17th career goal at 37:26.
Later, Barboza set up the Engineers insurance goal with a penalty corner insertion to Abby Cervelloni (Charlottesville, Va.). The junior made a stick stop to set up a blast from sophomore Hope Shevchuk (Burlington, Conn.) for her first career goal at 42:25.
Junior Lauren Puishys (Oxford, Mass.) made three saves in net for the Engineers en route to picking up her eighth win of the fall. Senior
Molly Melanson (Simsbury, Conn.) was credited with eight stops for NC before giving way to sophomore
Katherine Cotton (Kennebunk, Maine). She made two saves in 27:35 of action in the second half.
WPI enjoyed a 19-10 edge in shots for the game and a narrow 8-7 advantage in penalty corners. Richardson and Shevchuk combined for nine shots for the hosts while senior
Avery Orszulak (Springfield, Mass.) paced Nichols with four shots.
Nichols hosts UNE Saturday at 1 p.m. WPI entertains Wellesley at 5 p.m. on Saturday.
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