Amid the excitement of the first couple games of the new men’s hockey season and the anticipation of basketball season starting up, Northeastern students might be missing something. The second season is almost upon us for fall sports.
Sophomore midfielder Caroline Judge netted her third goal in as many games and senior forward Nicky Graham earned the game-winning, overtime goal against the then-No. 25 University of Maine as the Huskies split the weekend.
Freshman forward Deirdre Duke tallied two second-half goals and sophomore midfielder Caroline Judge netted two goals in her home state as the Huskies put up a 5-0 shutout over the University of Delaware Blue Hens on Friday.
Jordan Field at Harvard University was the site of Northeastern field hockey history Wednesday evening, as senior forward Crystal Poland became Northeastern’s all-time leading goal scorer with a two-goal performance in a 4-1 victory over the Crimson.
Senior forwards Lindsay Bennett and Crystal Poland combined for three goals to lead the Huskies to a 3-2 overtime win Friday night over Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) rival James Madison University in Virginia.
Last Wednesday, after nearly 30 years in the coaching ranks, Cheryl Murtagh was elected to the Zag Field Hockey/National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
Sunday, after a motivating, come-from-behind 3-2 victory over the College of William & Mary on Friday night, Northeastern once again found themselves on the wrong end of a barnburner at Boston College’s Field Hockey Field, as the then-No. 9 Lady Monarchs escaped with a 2-1 victory over the then-No. 8 and home-team Huskies.
Northeastern split its two-game slate last weekend, as the Huskies came away with a 4-3 overtime victory at the University of Massachusetts on Friday before falling to the University of New Hampshire in double-overtime, 3-2, on Sunday.
The two wins vaulted Northeastern seven spots in the National Field Hockey Coaches Association weekly poll for a second-consecutive week. The Huskies now sit at No. 7 in the country – previously the highest the program had ranked was No. 9 in the final poll of 2004.
Nearly a year and a half ago, Northeastern Athletic Director Peter Roby learned that things were changing at Wentworth's Sweeney Field that would ultimately affect Northeastern’s field hockey program. This season, the team is homeless and always on the road.
The Huskies are currently 3-0 after defeating some of the nation’s top ranked clubs, and have rode the success of experienced seniors, talented underclassmen and growing chemistry to mark themselves as one of the best programs in the country.
Two Colonial Athletic Association universities and Northeastern rivals – Virginia Commonwealth University and Old Dominion University – announced plans last week to pull out of the CAA for more competitive conferences. VCU said May 15 it will leave the CAA for the Atlantic 10 effective July 1, and ODU said May 17 it will join Conference USA for the 2013-14 season. In early April, Georgia State University started this trend when it announced it had accepted an invitation to join the Sun Belt Conference for the 2013-14 season.
