SWARTHMORE, Pa.—Swarthmore College Field Hockey ran out to a 5-2 victory over Hood College at home on Thursday afternoon in a non-conference game.
Senior forward
Erin Gluck scored three goals in the contest for her third career hat trick.
Kathleen Carmichael and
Clare Perez each scored as well. Senior goalkeeper
Ainsley Parrish recorded four saves in the win.
Swarthmore posted nine shots in each half and put 15 of them on goal. Hood was held to one shot in the first half and then took five attempts in the second. Hood scored both of its goals in the second-half.
The Garnet out-cornered the Blazers 14-5, piling on 10 corners in the second half.
Swarthmore struck early, going ahead in the third minute on Gluck's first tally.
Audrey Allen worked the ball into the middle of the circle, lost her defender with a cutback and drew the goalkeeper out. Gluck slipped between the goalkeeper and the right post, received a feed from Allen and finished it on the doorstep.
Neither team could find the back of the cage for nearly 30 minutes until Carmichael pushed home a goal off a scrum. Swarthmore increased its lead one minute into the second half when Gluck intercepted a pass from a Hood defender just outside the circle and then dribbled through the back line before firing a close range shot between the goalkeeper and the near post.
Hood popped onto the scoreboard in the 51st minute off a corner play, but the Garnet responded seconds after resetting the ball at midfield.
Katherine Ianni sent a long, hard pass into the circle, and Gluck deflected it in to complete the hat trick.
The three-goal lead was trimmed less than two minutes later when Hood took advantage of another corner to slip in its second goal of the game. Swarthmore's
Clare Perez gave the team some breathing room in the 66th minute by scoring her fourth goal of the year. Perez took the ball from Hood's keeper's feet, spun and slapped in the insurance goal.
With the win, Swarthmore gets off the snide and snaps an eight-game losing streak. The Garnet return to Centennial Conference play on Saturday at noon at home.
