Victoria Collee.
Sam Rubin
Victoria Collee (shown here) had a goal and two assists.
2
LIU Sharks LIU (0-2, 0-0 NEC)
8
Winner Yale Bulldogs YALE (1-0, 0-0 Ivy League)
LIU Sharks LIU
(0-2, 0-0 NEC)
2
Final
8
Yale Bulldogs YALE
(1-0, 0-0 Ivy League)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
LIU Sharks LIU 0 1 0 1 2
Yale Bulldogs YALE 3 1 2 2 8

Game Recap: Field Hockey | | Sam Rubin

Seven Different Goal Scorers Fuel 8-2 Win Over LIU in Opener

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale field hockey team opened the 2025 season with a decisive 8-2 win vs. Long Island on a warm Friday evening at Johnson Field. The Bulldogs scored three times in the first 6:41 and never looked back en route to posting their biggest win (in terms of score differential) since a 6-0 win vs. Merrimack to open the 2021 season. Seven different players scored goals, and Yale got multiple-assist games from sophomores Victoria Collee and Ymre Massée (two each).
 
Yale improves to 1-0 overall (0-0 in the Ivy League), while LIU falls to 0-2 (0-0 NEC). 
 
Summary
  • Sophomore Ymre Massée started her busy day by scoring the game's first goal, 2:41 in, off an assist from sophomore Victoria Collee. 
  • Senior captain Poppy Beales extended Yale's lead to 2-0 at 3:48.
  • Massée assisted on senior Lauren Venter's goal at 6:41 that made the score 3-0.
  • LIU's Georgia Dudon scored on a penalty stroke at 21:13.
  • Yale then scored the next three goals of the game, with junior Hettie Whittington scoring off a Massée assist on a penalty corner at 24:48 to start the streak. That sent Yale into halftime up 4-1.
  • Unassisted goals by Collee (at 42:04) and sophomore Chiara Picciafuoco (at 43:50) extended the lead to 6-1 by the end of the third quarter.
  • LIU's Tess Termars scored at 47:07 to cut into Yale's lead.
  • The Bulldogs scored the final two goals of the game. First-year Ella Ou scored her first career goal, deflecting in a pass from Collee at 56:08. Massée capped the scoring with a goal assisted by Ou at 56:36.
 
Notes
  • Yale finished with a 34-7 shot advantage and a 22-5 advantage in shots on goal.
  • LIU goalie Emma Capparelli made 13 saves, and the Sharks got a defensive save from Hayden Roddis.
  • First-year goalie Amelie Schwarzkopf got the start for Yale and made two saves. Classmate Maddie Shepherd played the second half.
  • Whittington made her second career defensive save.
  • The Bulldogs are now 6-1 in their last seven home games.
  • This was the first game for six Yale first-years:
  • Four players made their first career start: Isherwood, Massée, Schwarzkopf and Venter.
 
Up Next
  • Yale hosts UMass Lowell Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
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