Balanced Attack Lifts Wooster Over Ithaca 4-1

Four different College of Wooster players scored goals and the Fighting Scots extended their perfect start to the season with a 4-1 triumph over visiting Ithaca College in a non-conference field hockey affair on Sunday afternoon.

Wooster, now 8-0 overall and three victories short of equaling the 1984 team's 11-0 start, struck first Sunday when freshman Amanda Graeser scored her first collegiate goal on an assist from Eileen Barrer at the 21:21 mark of the opening half. Three and one-half minutes later, senior standout Amanda Artman made it 2-0 while knocking in her 16th goal of the year.

Ithaca (2-4), which includes Wooster alum Kelley Hubbell on its coaching staff, cut the deficit in half 2:50 later on a Jessica Dillon tally, only to see the Scots regain their two-goal advantage with a score from Stephanie Standera right before the halftime break. It marked Standera's first goal of the fall after previously contributing three assists.

Wooster's Brittany Montgomery rattled the back of the cage 10:50 into the second for her fourth goal and a three-score cushion. That wound up completing the game's scoring as the Scots have now produced at least four goals in every game this season.

Defensively, Wooster received a solid outing from goalkeeper Madalyn Myers as she notched a double-digit save total (11) for the third time in 2009. Also of note, back Katrina Wojciechowski recorded a defensive save.

Next, the Scots return to North Coast Athletic Conference play with a trip to Denison University Saturday.