Field Hockey

NESCAC Field Hockey Weekly Release - Sept. 16, 2024

NESCAC Field Hockey Player of the Week
Andrea DelGiudice - Gr. – M/D – Bedford, N.H. 
DelGiudice scored hat tricks in both games as Tufts defeated Colby College (6-2) and Connecticut College (6-0) last weekend. The graduate student had three goals and two assists for an eight-point game versus the Mules, then three goals and one assist for seven points against the Camels. DelGiudice totaled six goals and three assists for 15 points. The Colby game was tied 1-1 at the half, then DelGiudice had two goals and two assists in the second half to lead the Jumbos to the win.
 
NESCAC Weekly Honor Roll
Amherst – Senior Sam Maynard (Charlestown, Mass) scored a goal 8:26 into overtime on Wednesday to lift the Mammoths to a 2-1 victory over WPI at Hill Field.

Bates – Bates had won 10 straight games at Campus Ave. Field before Wednesday's 3-0 loss to No. 4 ranked Babson. Senior captain Anna Lindeis (New Canaan, Conn.) tallied a pair of shots in the defeat. The Bobcats (2-1) look to get back on the winning track Wednesday when they host Thomas College at 7 p.m.
 
Bowdoin – Maya Malenfant (Weston, Mass.) scored three goals and an assist in two Polar Bear wins last week. The senior scored twice in a midweek win over Southern Maine before scoring the game-tying goal and assisting on a go-ahead goal in an eventual 5-3 Bowdoin win at Conn. College on Saturday. Malenfant leads Bowdoin with four goals and three assists this season. 
 
Colby – Junior Elizabeth Takoudes (Needham, Mass.) scored a pair of first-half goals Sunday night in a 5-1 victory at Thomas to match her previous season-high for goals in a season.  

Connecticut College – Bridget McGann (West Harford, Conn.) led Conn. College in scoring with three goals last week. The junior accounted for both tallies in a 2-0 victory over Wellesley, giving the Camels their first win of the season while notching her fourth career multi-goal game. She also added a goal in NESCAC action against Bowdoin, tying the game at 3-3 in the second half of a 5-3 setback.

HamiltonClaire Tratnyek (Short Hills, N.J.) recorded three points in a 1-1 week for the Continentals. Tratnyek scored early in the first quarter of Hamilton's 2-1 win against Wesleyan and had an assist on the Continentals' goal in a 2-1 setback against Rochester. The junior had five career points going into the week.

Middlebury - With just 24 seconds remaining against Babson, Grace Keefe (Danbury, Conn.) found the back of the cage on Sunday, lifting Middlebury to a 2-1 victory over a top-five nationally ranked squad. The Panther also tallied a marker on Saturday, helping the team to a 12-1 win over Trinity. 

Wesleyan - Helen Deretchin (Circleville, N.Y.) scored a backhanded shot from just inside the circle for the Cardinals in Saturday's 2-1 loss at Hamilton in the team's NESCAC opener. 

Williams – Sophomore Claire Colvin (Winchester, Mass.) scored both goals, including the game-winning tally late in the third quarter, to lead No. 5 Williams to a 2-0 victory over No. 11 Amherst on Saturday. The Ephs were also victorious with a 7-0 win at Smith on Wednesday.