NEW YORK, N.Y. ? The Monmouth University field hockey team fell to Columbia 4-2 at the Baker Field Athletics Complex in New York City on Wednesday evening. The loss drops the Hawks to 0-7, while the Ivy League's Lions even their season mark at 3-3.
After Christine Buszczak gave Columbia a 1-0 lead with just over five minutes gone by in the first half, Monmouth's Molly Passarella (Atco, N.J./Hammonton) took a corner feed from Morganne Firmstone (Honesdale, Pa./Honesdale) and scored her second goal in a week to even the game at 1-1 with 8:35 gone by.
The Lions got another first half tally, this one from Julia Garrison, to take a 2-1 lead into intermission. Columbia came out of the halftime break and received two goals, seven minutes apart, from Liz Reeve to take a 4-1 lead 51 minutes into the game. Monmouth freshman Katie Amundsen (Voorhees, N.J./Eastern) ended the game's scoring when she tallied her first collegiate goal at the 52:24 mark of the second half.
Monmouth was outshot 21-5 in the game, and Columbia held a 10-2 advantage on penalty corner opportunities. Megan Smith (Easton, Pa./Easton Area) got the start in goal for the Hawks and made six saves in the game. MU Freshman Nora Bosmans (Oakhurst, N.J./Ocean Township) made a defensive save in the game as well.
The Hawks return to action on Saturday, September 22 when they begin Northeast Conference play by traveling to Fairfield, Conn. for 1:00 p.m. match with Sacred Heart.
