NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale field hockey team is back on the road this weekend, wrapping up a stretch of four straight road games. The Bulldogs start Ivy League play at Brown on Friday (4:00 p.m.,
ESPN+,
International Stream,
Live Stats) and then visit local rival Fairfield Sunday (1:00 p.m.,
Stags Sports Network,
Live Stats).
LAST GAME
Yale (4-2, 0-0 Ivy League) had a four-game winning streak snapped Sunday with a 3-0 loss at UAlbany. Penalty corners were even (6-6), but the Great Danes outshot the Bulldogs 12-8 en route to the victory.
HOT START
Yale is 4-2 for the first time since 2016. The Bulldogs have not started a season 5-2 since 1998, when the team won six of its first seven games before suffering its second loss of the season.
INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR
Yale's roster has players from five different countries:
- 17 USA
- 4 England
- 2 Canada
- 1 Germany
- 1 South Africa
AMONG THE IVY'S BEST DEFENSIVELY
Yale is allowing only 1.50 goals per game – second-best in the Ivy League. Harvard is allowing 1.00 goals per game. Junior goalkeeper
Luanna Summer (St. Louis, Mo.) has the second-best GAA in the league, 1.50, behind Harvard's Ellie Shahbo (.961).
50 YEARS OF WOMEN'S VARSITY ATHLETICS AT YALE
In October, Yale will have two home field hockey games on the weekend that Yale Athletics celebrates 50 years of women's varsity athletics.
That celebration takes place Oct. 14-16.
SCOUTING BROWN
Brown (5-1, 0-0 Ivy League) had a five-game winning streak snapped last Sunday with a 3-2 OT loss at VCU. The Bears, in their first season with Britt Broady as head coach, have gone 3-1 in one-goal games. Broady spent the previous five seasons as head coach at UC Davis, where she helped the Aggies rank 20th in the NCAA in goals-against average in 2019.
SCOUTING FAIRFIELD
Fairfield (2-6, 0-0 NEC) has lost four of its last five games, including defeats by a pair of nationally ranked teams last weekend: 2-1 at No. 24 Miami (Ohio) and 5-0 at No. 4 Louisville. The Stags were undefeated NEC Champions last year, falling 4-3 in OT to then-No. 17 Delaware in the opening round of the NCAA Field Hockey Championship.
