ITHACA, N.Y. -- Two penalty-corner goals 1:39 apart in the third quarter carried No. 3 UConn to a 2-0 win over the Cornell field hockey team on Sunday afternoon at Marsha Dodson Field. The Huskies (12-1) outshot the Big Red 19-5 and held a 10-4 edge in penalty corners. Cornell fell to 5-8 on the season with the loss.
Big Red goalkeeper Martha Broderick kept it scoreless for the first 32 minutes, making four saves in the first quarter and two in the second as UConn pressed with seven first-quarter shots and four corners. UConn broke through at 32:55 of the third quarter, when Lucy Ziche sent a direct shot off a penalty corner through for her 10th goal of the season. Charlotte Ritter and Olivia McKenna had the assists.
The Huskies struck again less than two minutes later when Fien Hollander drove in a direct shot off another corner, with Emma Larit and McKenna credited with assists. Broderick was again sensational and finished with 11 saves, including two in the third quarter and three in the fourth, as UConn put 13 shots on goal. Ziche had six shots and Abby Davidson five.
Cornell's best stretch came in the fourth quarter, when it earned four penalty corners in less than two minutes. UConn blocked three of the shots that followed, two from junior Uma Käding and one from freshman Rebecca Block, and sophomore Blake Wilks's attempt went wide. The Big Red had five shots in all, none of them on goal, and UConn goalkeeper Natalie McKenna did not need to make a save in the shutout.
The Big Red returns to action on Friday, Oct. 23 when it faces Dartmouth in a key Ivy contest in Hanover, N.H. Game time on ESPN+ is at 3 p.m.
