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No. 19 Field Hockey Blanks Longwood, 3-0
September 22, 2007 | Field Hockey
Sept. 22, 2007
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Senior Sarah Shute scored two goals and the Terrier defense allowed only four shots on the afternoon as the No. 19 Boston University field hockey team posted a 3-0 victory over Longwood on Saturday afternoon at Virginia's University Hall Turf Field. Sophomore Suus Dekker opened the scoring on a penalty stroke for the Terriers, who extend their win streak to four games and improve to 7-2.
The Terriers outshot Longwood 17-4, including 11-1 in the first half. Longwood's Avanell Schmitz made 11 saves, including eight in the first half to keep the Lancers within striking distance at the break.
Dekker put the Terriers up 1-0 in the third minute of play as she converted a stroke. BU had gained the circle and pulled out Schmitz; the resulting shot was blocked on the line by a Longwood foot, sending the Terriers to the strokemark. Dekker went upper left, scoring at 2:37 and giving the Terriers the early lead. Despite notching four short corners and peppering the LU cage with 11 shots, BU was only able to manage a 1-0 lead at the break as Schmitz made eight saves to keep her team close. BU missed an opportunity to double its lead with eight minutes to play in the half when the Terriers drew another stroke, but Schmitz made the save to keep the score 1-0.
In the second half, BU struck early again as Shute intercepted a pass and attacked the cage, scoring from just inside the circle at 40:06. Ten minutes later she duplicated that effort, picking up a loose ball above the 25 and taking it in on her own to score at 52:31 for her second goal of the game to give the Terriers a 3-0 lead.
"It wasn't a pretty win," said head coach Sally Starr. "We never got into a rhythm and the heat played a huge factor. However, we did what we needed to do. Credit Longwood - they played hard and made us play hard in order to execute."
Freshman goalkeeper Kim Kastuk made one stop to earn her second shutout of the season.
The Terriers will wrap up their weekend trip on Sunday when they face No. 15 Virginia at 1 p.m.
