GAMBIER, Ohio – Pushing its win streak to within one of the program record, the Kenyon College field hockey team tallied a 1-0 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) victory Sunday afternoon on the Field at Benson Bowl. The Ladies' latest victim, their 11th in a row, was the Earlham College Quakers.

The Kenyon program's longest win streak is 12, set by the 2014 team. In order for the current Ladies team to tie that mark, they'll have to win another big NCAC showdown on Wednesday at Ohio Wesleyan University. Kenyon will take a 12-2 overall record and a 5-0 conference mark into that contest. The host Battling Bishops will show up with a 10-3 overall record and a 4-1 NCAC mark.

Prior to Sunday's result, Earlham was the only other unbeaten team in the conference. The Quakers, however, yielded a second-quarter goal to Kenyon and left campus with a 9-6 overall record and a 3-1 NCAC record.

That second quarter goal came off the stick of senior Hannah Sklar. With 6:24 expired from the clock, Kenyon was awarded a penalty corner. Sophomore Emma Hyer inserted the ball to Sklar, who couldn't corral the pass. Fellow senior Lucy Irwin backed up the play and got the ball back to Sklar, who turned and fired through a crowd. The ball zipped through the Earlham defense and into the Quakers' cage. That goal was Sklar's third of the season and her second game-winner of the season. Over the Ladies' last eight games, Sklar has three goals, three assists and nine points.


Although it scored just the one goal, the Ladies offense dominated the game, earning 11 penalty corners and attacking the Earlham cage with 16 shots. At the other end of the field, the Ladies defense yielded just three penalty corners and no shots to the Quakers.

The shutout win was the Ladies' fourth in a row. It was also the second time this season the Kenyon women did not allow a shot.

Freshman goalkeeper Payton Doan, the beneficiary of the great defense in front of her, ran her personal record to 11-0 with a sparkling 0.33 goals against average. Her goals against average not only leads the conference, but leads all players in NCAA Division III.