Box Score BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The six goals scored by the Susquehanna field hockey team in a 6-1 win at Moravian marked the most goals scored this season and the most since SU defeated Marywood 6-0 on Sept. 17 of last season.
In addition, Susquehanna's 10 wins are the most since 2010 when the team went 12-7 with a 5-1 mark in Landmark games.
Emily Novakovich scored two of the Crusaders' six goals and led all players with six shots. Cayla Spatz added two assists and one goal for a four-point afternoon.
Susquehanna (10-4, 3-2) took 21 shots – 14 in the first half – while its defense limited Moravian (4-10, 0-4) to just three.
Spatz got the scoring started with an unassisted goal at the 15-minute mark of the opening half. It marked the first of five unanswered goals for the Crusaders. Katherine Millett and Novakovich scored the final two goals of the first half over a nine-minute span. Novakovich's goal came with 49 seconds left in the period and gave her team a 3-0 halftime lead.
Early in the second half, Taylor Franco and Novakovich scored goals 83 seconds apart for the 5-0 Crusader lead.
In the 58th minute, Moravian finally got on the board with an unassisted goal by Kelly O'Donnell but less than three minutes later, Erin Bonafede tacked on an insurance goal for the 6-1 Crusader advantage. The Greyhounds would not get another shot off against the SU defense.
Goalie Alyssa Rothman played the first 48:49 of the game and finished with two saves. Courtney Purnell played the final 21:11 of the game in her first appearance of the season.
Susquehanna returns home to host Catholic on Oct. 24 at 1 p.m. for Senior Day.
