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HENNIKER, N.H.— October 17, 2012 - The Colby-Sawyer field hockey team fell at New England College 5-0 in North Atlantic Conference (NAC) play on Wednesday afternoon.

With the win, the Pilgrims improve to 8-9 overall and 6-2 in the NAC. The loss drops the Chargers to 5-7 on the season and 1-5 in NAC play.

The Pilgrims would waste no time getting on the board as senior Katherine Rich (Westborough, Mass.) would net her fifth goal of the season off a corner from Rachel Carnaroli (Bellingham, Mass.) just 1:38 into the game.

NEC would tack on an additional score with less than four minutes remaining in the half as Patricia Wright (Essex, Mass.) would strike a one-timer off another Carnaroli corner giving the Pilgrims the 2-0 halftime lead.

NEC would extend their lead to 3-0 just two minutes into the second half of play as Rachael Hunt (Harwich, Mass.) would lift a pass from Jennifer Adams (Brimfield, Mass.). NEC's Rachel Carnaroli and Kate Roberge (Essex Junction, Vt.) would each add a tally to the board in the second half building the Pilgrim lead to 5-0.

Colby-Sawyer's best scoring opportunity of the afternoon came with 15 minutes remaining as Rebecca Perley (Sandown, N.H.) would fire a shot just wide of the net.

NEC finished the game out shooting Colby-Sawyer 22-9.

Picking up the win in goal for NEC was Courtney Duquette (Enfield, N.H.) who finished with six saves.  Seeing the bulk of the time in net for Colby-Sawyer College was Jodi Dumayne (Claremont, N.H.) who recorded an impressive 13 saves on the afternoon.

New England College returns to action on Sunday, Oct 21 when they travel to take on NAC opponent University of Maine Farmington.  Colby-Sawyer will travel to Bangor, Maine on Saturday, Oct. 20 where they square off against NAC foe Husson University.

--Release courtesy of NEC Sports Info