WORCESTER, Massachusetts - No. 10 Assumption University controlled the field for most of the game in an 8-0 Northeast 10 Conference win over the American International College field hockey team on Wednesday, October 14.
AIC is now 3-6 overall and 1-3 in the NE10.
Though the Yellow Jackets held the offense off for the first 10 minutes, Assumption scored five times in an 10:37 span, beginning at 10:25 of the first quarter on a Daisy Stone strike. She scored three of the five goals in the run and assisted another as the Greyhounds took a 5-0 lead into the half.
Marta Brzoska and Julia Carbone scored, the latter twice, in the third quarter's first 7:46 to add to the lead. AIC had two chances in the frame turned back as well.
Frederique den Hartog stopped 14 shots in the loss;
Grace Boisvert made a pair of defensive saves.
AIC returns home on Saturday, October 17 at noon to host Franklin Pierce University.