WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ – The Monmouth University field hockey team put forth an impressive team performance in a win against the Cal Golden Bears Wednesday afternoon at So Sweet A Cat Field. Monmouth had three different goal scorers in the win and did not surrender a shot on goal.
 
Monmouth broke the ice in the second quarter when sophomore Aylin Aufenacker (Hamburg, Germany/ Gymnasium Eppendorf) scored her third goal of the year off of a scramble in front of the net with the assist going to redshirt junior Hannah Schiavo (Glen Gardner, NJ/ Voorhees). Katie Yoder followed suit about nine minutes later and scored her first goal of the year off of an assist from junior Annick van Lange (Sint-Job, Belgium/ Annuntia Institute) to give the Hawks a two-goal cushion at the end of the first half.
 
In the fourth, Aufenacker drew a penalty to set up senior Ireen Frenken's (Tilburg, Netherlands/ Odulphus Lyceum) successful penalty stroke to put the game officially out of reach at 3-0.
 
NOTES & QUOTES
"Today was a massive win and a total team effort. We had Aylin, Katie, and Ireen step up in a very big way and it paid off for us."- Monmouth Head Coach, Carli Figlio
 
- Monmouth is 2-0 vs Cal all-time.
- Last matchup against Cal was in the America East Semifinals in 2019.
- The Hawks are 3-1 at home this season.
- Monmouth improved to 2-1 in the America East this season.
 
NUMBERS CRUNCH
- Katie Yoder scored her first career goal.
- Ireen Frenken scored her fifth goal of the season and the 15th goal of her career. Frenken is 2-for-2 on penalty strokes this year.
- Aylin Aufenacker recorded her 10th career goal and third of the season.
- Monmouth improved to 8-0 when Aufenacker scores a goal during her career.
- Annick van Lange picked up her third assist of the year and now has 63 career points.
- Hannah Schiavo collected her first assist of the year and the 10th of her career.
- Monmouth outshot Cal, 12-5, and had a 5-4 advantage in penalty corners. 
- It was the third time this season that the Monmouth defense did not allow a shot on goal.

NEXT UP
Monmouth finishes up its four-game home stand against UMass Lowell on Friday, March 26th at 12 PM.