As the Lady Cavaliers field hockey team pushed through another victory against Alvernia Crusaders in their regular season, the women or players also celebrated senior day.
Seniors Erin McLaughlin, Samantha LaMaina, Genevieve Paulin, Stephanie Toomey all came out with excitement and drive to pull out a win after the fall to Keystone last week.
“Genevieve is a phenomenal goalie and makes awesome saves every game. Playing on this team is truly a family. We are all such great friends and I couldn’t ask for a better group of girls,” sophomore high center midfielder/forward Jen Webb said.
Within the first half, freshman and midfielder Brianne White worked hard pulling away multiple reverse sweeps.
Senior and midfielder Stephanie Toomey, with a reverse sweep, ripped a shot that missed by a hair.
Alvernia played aggressive offense but did not bother freshman midfielder Kylie McDevitt, sophomore midfielder Kerry Anne Farrell, sophomore high center midfielder/forward Jen Webb, and junior midfielder Danielle Palatano, all played impeccable defense.
Hustle and long efforts from the lady Cavs continued pushing Alvernia to work even harder and unfortunately Cabrini let up a goal. Cabrini left the first half 1-0 Crusaders
“My favorite part of playing Alvernia was when we were down 1-0 at half time and came out the second half determined to win and scored 2 goals to win,” Webb said.
With 31:33 minutes left to play in the second half ripped an aggressive shot, which tied up the game to 1-1.
“During half time coach Jackie and coach Julie gave us the idea to have one of our forwards cherry pick a little so we would have somebody there to take a quick shot,” Webb said.
Shooting for the second time in a row with a nice clean shot, Farrell completes the shot making the score 2-1 at 29:35 minutes left on the clock. Farrell shot for the third time afterwards but was later called as no goal.
McLaughlin hustled all day but was triumphant to block a shot from Alvernia and turned the ball over to her teammates. Adding to the great defense, Rachel Antuzzi was aggressive and determined to get the ball back to freshman midfielder Taylor Mack who had a nice shot but unfortunately missed.
The girls ended their final season with another solid win with their overall regular season record as 9-7.
“We work as a unit to move the ball up the field and back one another up to help get as many shots on goal as we can. There’s always room for improvement but as a unit we have been connecting with one another very well this season,” Webb said.
