NEW LONDON, N.H. – September 21, 2016 – The Colby-Sawyer College field hockey team is off to its best start in program history after Wednesday's 7-4 triumph over Wheelock.

Colby-Sawyer improves to 6-2 and will play a conference opener on Saturday at New England College. Wheelock drops to 1-5 and will host Daniel Webster on Friday.

The Wildcats scored the game's first goal at the 3:57 mark on junior Katie Frade's (Dartmouth, Mass.) team leading fifth goal of the season.

Colby-Sawyer sophomore Sierra Schuster (Hopkinton, N.H.) tied the game 14 minutes later when she deposited her fifth goal of the season into the back of the cage.

Wheelock would take the lead again in the 29th minute when Frade set up her teammate Melanie Newberg (Raynham, Mass.) who finished with her second tally of the season.

The Chargers scored twice more before the end of the half off the sticks of senior Allyse Mullen (Wilder, Vt.) and freshman Alie Jones (Cape Neddick, Maine) to take a 3-2 lead into the break.  

The home team then took control in the second half scoring three unanswered to go ahead 6-2. Jones had two goals in that span to give her the hat-trick. Sandwiched in between Jones' goals, was the eventual game-winner scored by sophomore Jordan Teixeira (Exeter, N.H.). Teixeira has netted the game-winner in back-to-back games for the Chargers.

Wheelock pulled within three after Frade connected for her sixth goal of the season.

Mullen added an insurance goal for Colby-Sawyer before Wheelock senior Emma Panto (Somers, Conn.) concluded the scoring with a goal at 59:08.

Colby-Sawyer sophomore Xena Ras (Medfield, Mass.) made three saves in the win, while Wildcat goalie Jenna O'Leary (Lakeville, Mass.) had nine saves.  

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