AMCATS Drop Road Game at Wheaton College

REHOBOTH, Mass.- Wheaton College scored four unanswered goals, leading the field hockey team to a 4-2 victory over Anna Maria College in Wheaton's home opener on a rain-soaked Faxon Field. 
  
Collecting its first victory of the season, the Blue and White improved to 1-2 on the season, while the AMCATS suffered their initial loss in falling to 1-1. 
  
Rocha tallied the game-winner with 3:32 remaining, as sophomore Sarah McNicholas (Boxboro, Mass./Acton-Boxboro Regional) picked up the assist.  McNicholas finished with two helpers on the afternoon, while juniorEmily Chick (Bangor, Maine/Bangor) added a marker and an assist. 
  
Anna Maria cracked the scoring column first, tallying two times 9:16 apart to capture a 2-0 lead with less than eight minutes to play in the opening half.  Senior Marybeth McClune (Worcester, Mass.), scored her second goals in as many games, when she slammed home a long pass from Nichole Lowe (Saugus, Mass.) in the 17th minute. Freshman Kylie Dalbec (Portland, ME) netted her first collegiate goal at 26:24 to double the AMCATS lead. Teammate Kate Ketchum (Palmer, Mass.) had the assist.
  
Wheaton carried its late-half momentum into the second frame, where the hosts maintained possession for most of the stanza, holding advantages of 15-2 in shots and 7-1 in penalty corners.  Chick fed sophomore Tracy McCann (Westerly, R.I./Lincoln School) for the equalizer with less than 11 minutes showing on the clock. 
  
In the 67th minute, Rocha was on the receiving end of a short cross from McNicholas.  Not even three minutes later, McNicholas dumped her pass into the circle to a waiting Chick for the insurance strike. 

Junior goalie Ellie Massengill (Amherst, Mass./Amherst) made two saves in the victory, while Anna Maria split time between two keepers.  Freshman Brittany Marment (Leicester, Mass./Leicester) had one stop while allowing one goal in the opening half, and classmate Mary Kate Breen (Londonderry, N.H./Londonderry) turned aside nine second-half shots but allowed three markers in the loss.