READING, Pa. - The Albright field hockey team (8-9, 4-3 MAC Commonwealth) wrapped up their season on Saturday (Oct. 28) afternoon handling Eastern (6-11, 1-6 MAC Commonwealth) with ease winning today's game 4-0. The Lions will miss this year's MAC Commonwealth playoffs going down to the third tiebreaker on goal differential.
Albright did their part this afternoon winning comfortably over Eastern. However the rest of the MAC Commonwealth games did not go their way seeing the Lions narrowly miss the playoffs. The tiebreaker came down to the third one which was goal differential against other MAC Commonwealth institutions.
For today's game, the Lions scored two goals in each half propelling them to victory. Albright got first half goals from
Chelsea Johnson and McKenna Cox. Both of Albright's first half goals were assisted by
Olivia Lorah.
As a team, the Lions finished with 12 first half shots to Eastern's two, keeping the pressure on throughout the first 30 minutes of play.
The third period featured no scoring from either side but the Lions were able to put the game away in the fourth period. Johnson scored her second of the game and
Florissa Hakker scored her first career goal for the Lions to put the stamp on today's game.
Johnson finished the regular season with 13 total goals, good for second in the MAC Commonwealth.
Lorah finished the game with three assists, two in the first half and one in the second half.
Veronica Heckman was called upon twice in today's game and made both saves preserving the shutout for Albright. Today's shutout marked the sixth of the season for the senior goalkeeper.
