Usher Scores Early Goal, Bloom Makes Career-Best 13 Saves at Juniata

HUNTINGDON, Pa. - Visiting Goucher College staked itself to a 1-0 lead 5:37 into the game, but Juniata College scored the game's last four goals in a 4-1 Landmark Conference field hockey victory Saturday afternoon at Knox Stadium.

• Goucher (6-3, 1-2 Landmark) took a 1-0 lead in the sixth minute as Madison Usher scored.  
• An initial shot off a corner by Isa Schenk was stopped by Juniata (4-6, 1-2) goalie Brittney McMullen, but Usher knocked home the rebound.
• Aimee Buffington tied the game for the Eagles off an assist by Tess Ledeboer with 2:30 left in the opening frame.

• After generating three penalty corners in a minute, Juniata took a 2-1 lead at the 21:05 mark with Ledeboer scoring.
• Just over two minutes later the Gophers generated a penalty corner.
• Ledeboer struck again 3:54 before halftime to make it 3-1.

• Buffington scored her second goal of the game just 33 seconds into the second half to put Juniata up 4-1.
• In the 34th minute Katie Bloom made a save on a Sydney Witter shot, and Daryn Carter recorded a defensive save on another Witter try.
• Bloom made two more saves following an Eagle corner in the 38th minute.

• Following a penalty corner, Bloom made a save on a Colleen Creneti shot a minute into the fourth.
• Kaitlyn Bucci put a shot on goal with just over 10 minutes left that was saved by McMullen.
• Moments later the Gophers were awarded a penalty stroke, which they failed to convert.
• Bloom made four more saves as Goucher kept the hosts off the board in the final period.

• Juniata outshot Goucher 24-5 and took 13 penalty corners to the Gophers' three.
• Bloom made a career-high 13 saves, while McMullen notched four stops.
• It marked Bloom's third double-digit save effort of the season and second straight.
• Bucci had two of Goucher's five shots.

• Goucher returns to action on Wednesday, traveling to Southern Virginia for a 7 pm contest.
• The Gophers return home on Sunday, October 8, hosting Widener in a 1 pm game at Beldon Field.