Box Score GAMBIER, Ohio – After giving up an early goal Saturday at McBride Field, the Kenyon College field hockey team flipped the switch and overpowered the visiting College of Wooster Fighting Scots for the remainder of the North Coast Athletic Conference contest. Two unanswered goals in each half yielded a 4-1 Ladies' victory.

The win for Kenyon (7-4, 5-2 NCAC) was huge in terms of conference positioning. Entering the contest, Wooster trailed Kenyon by just one game. The Ladies' win, however, provided a two-game cushion over the Fighting Scots (5-6, 3-4 NCAC) and kept the Kenyon women in third-place, two games behind league-leading DePauw University.

The turn-around for the Ladies Saturday started in the game's 22nd minute. That's when junior Sammy Johnston fired a shot toward the right corner of the Wooster goal. As it neared the post, classmate Cecilia Depman dove toward it and redirected it into the cage to knot things up at 1-1.

The Ladies' second goal, which turned out to be the game-winner, developed off a penalty corner just 30 seconds before the halftime horn sounded.  Junior Rachel Hall played the corner in to sophomore Maddie Breschi, who collected the ball at the top of the circle. Breschi then uncorked a shot up the middle, where it was deflected by junior Julie Freedman and found its way over the Wooster goal line.

In the second half, the Ladies' attack again dominated play, rarely letting the ball out of the Wooster zone. Less than five minutes into the second stanza, Alex Bair played the ball to the right corner of the Wooster cage. Her pass slipped through a defender's legs and found Hall, who simply turned and put home a shot off the goalie's pads. The score was Hall's conference-leading tenth of the season.

Breschi then capped off the fireworks with a bomb. At the 47:19 mark, she worked her way into the left side of the circle, side-stepped a defender, and unleashed an explosive shot that didn't stop until it hit the back of the cage. The goal was Breschi's seventh of the season and her three-point game improved her season total to 19.

Overall, Kenyon outshot Wooster, 24-4, and established a huge 19-3 advantage in penalty corners.