NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The Yale field hockey team enters its busiest stretch of the season Wednesday, playing three games in five days -- including two at home. First, the Bulldogs host Sacred Heart Wednesday (7:00 p.m., ESPN+). They then travel to Penn for an Ivy League game Saturday (12:00 p.m., ESPN+) before wrapping up with a home game vs. Hofstra Sunday (2:00 p.m., ESPN+).
 
LAST GAME
Yale (5-7, 2-2 Ivy League) evened its Ivy League record at 2-2 with a dramatic win at Columbia last Friday, scoring twice in the fourth quarter to beat the Lions 4-2. Both goals came from first years, as forward Lily Ramsey (Summit, N.J.) scored to break a 2-2 tie with 6:40 to play and forward Ellie Barlow (Dunmow, Essex, England) added an insurance goal with 44 seconds left.
 
HOME STRETCH
After playing only one home game between Sept. 27 and Oct. 19, Yale ends the season by playing four of the final five regular season games at home. The Bulldogs are 16-10 (.615) at Johnson Field since Nov. 4, 2017.
 
CAPTAIN DAVIES
Senior midfielder Imogen Davies (Kilmacolm, Scotland), Yale's captain, has moved into seventh place on Yale's career assists list with 24. She needs one assist to tie Jan Colarusso Seeley '82 for sixth and two assists to tie Maggi Smeal '82 for fifth. Davies is 10th in the Ivy League this year with five assists.
 
DOUBLE DIGITS
Yale remains within striking distance of 10 wins for the season. The last time the Bulldogs reached that mark was 2018, when the team won five of its final six games to get to 10-7.
 
IVY LEAGUE LEADERS
Yale has three players among the top 10 in the Ivy League in goals, assists and points:

• Sophomore forward Lena Ansari (Glenview, Ill.):
  t-7th in points (14), t-8th in goals (5)
• Senior midfielder Imogen Davies (Kilmacolm, Scotland):
  10th in assists (5)
• Junior midfielder Théodora Dillman (Lancaster, Pa.):
  t-6th in goals (6), t-7th in points (14)

On the defensive end, sophomore goalkeeper Luanna Summer (St. Louis, Mo.) is second in the league in saves (73).
 
SCOUTING SACRED HEART
Sacred Heart (2-11, 2-2 NEC), which uses Johnson Field as its home field, had a pair of home wins earlier this month -- vs. Bryant and Merrimack, both by 4-3 scores in overtime. The Pioneers' roster is heavy with sophomores and first years, as they account for 16 of 28 spots.
 
SCOUTING PENN
Penn (5-6, 2-2 Ivy League) has won two straight one-goal games in Ivy League play, beating Cornell 2-1 in overtime Oct. 9 and Brown 3-2 this past Saturday. All six of the Quakers' losses have come to opponents ranked in the top 20 nationally.
 
SCOUTING HOFSTRA
Hofstra (7-9, 1-4 CAA) has won two in a row after enduring a five-game losing streak. The Pride offense is led by midfielder/forward Eline Oldeman (7-2-16), a freshman from the Netherlands who has four goals in the last six games.