On Sunday (Oct. 28), the Lock Haven University field hockey team capped the 2018 season in style, thanks to a dominating 2-0 'Senior-Day' shutout of Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) foe La Salle.
Below is a quick look back at the season by the numbers
602: LHU finished the 2018 season with nine wins and that pushed LHU head coach
Pat Rudy to
602 career wins … The 2-0 win at Davidson on October 5 proved to be a historic one … The win gave LHU head coach
Pat Rudy her 600th career victory, a career coaching milestone that only two NCAA field hockey coaches have reached before her … Rudy entered the 2018 season with 593 wins and the win at Davidson – the seventh of the season for LHU – pushed her to the magic No. 600 … The 2018 season marked Rudy's 23rd at LHU, her alma mater, and her 41st season coaching overall at the college level … Rudy entered the season already holding the third-most wins of all-time and earlier this season, she grabbed her 350th win at LHU … She now has 356 wins at Lock Haven.
.500: The win in the season-finale vs. La Salle helped Lock Haven finish the season at .
500, thanks to a 9-9 overall record … The Bald Eagles were 3-5 in A-10 action, thanks to wins over Davidson, Saint Louis and La Salle … All three conference wins came by way of a shutout and LHU outscored their conference foes 9-0 in those three games.
45: On the season, LHU scored
45 goals, the third most of any team in the A-10 during the regular season.
20:
Dana-Lee De Gannes and
Tamia Roach both finished the year with
20 points … De Gannes had nine goals and two assists, while Roach had eight goals and four assists.
13:
Alyscia Smith led Lock Haven with
13 goals … She also had six assists and a team-leading 32 points … Smith's 13 goals were fifth-best in the A-10.
9: Defender
Tia Judy finished with a team-best
nine assists … It marked her second straight nine-assist season.
7: On the season, the LHU defense pitched
seven regulation-shutouts.
6:
Six field players started all 18 games for Lock Haven … In all, seven players started all 18 games, as goalkeeper
Brianna DeAngelis started all 18 games in the cage.
4: The Bald Eagles honored
four graduating seniors during the season-finale:
Tamia Roach,
Dana-Lee De Gannes,
Alyscia Smith and
Brianna DeAngelis.
3:
Three different players registered two-game winning goals each on the season (A. Smith, D. De Gannes, T. Piano).
2:
Twice during the regular season, LHU players were named A-10 Player of the Week …
Tamia Roach (co), September 4 &
Alyscia Smith (co), September 10.
1.63: Standout goalkeeper
Brianna DeAngelis finished the season with a 1.63 goals-against-average … On the way to nine wins, she recorded a .634 save-percentage … Her 1.63 GAA ranked third in the A-10.
1:
One LHU player was selected to the Senior All-Star Game …
Tamia Roach was selected to the 2018 Victory Sports Tours / National Field Hockey Coaches' Association (NFHCA) Division I Senior Game … The senior all-star game features the top senior players in the nation and, in all, 38 players were selected … This year, the Division I Senior Game will take place in conjunction with the NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship in Louisville, Kentucky … The Senior Game is currently set for 6:00 p.m. EST on Friday, November 16, 2018 following the conclusion of the NCAA semifinal games at the University of Louisville's Trager Stadium.