Box Score
NOVEMBER 9, 2016

FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL RALLIES FOR 2-1 VICTORY OVER KING'S IN NCAA FIRST ROUND

LANCASTER, PA -- The eighth-ranked Franklin and Marshall College field hockey team rallied to edge King's College 2-1 in an exciting NCAA Championship first round game on Wednesday at Tylus Field in Lancaster.

The Monarchs took an early lead when Brianna DiMaggio scored her 15^th goal of the year in the fourth minute. DiMaggio scooped up a ball that bounced off a Diplomat defender and beat the goalkeeper one-on-one with a shot inside the right post to give King's a 1-0 lead. Franklin and Marshall responded with four straight penalty corners in a 90 second span but the Monarch defense was able to hold the Diplomats to just one shot that went wide.

In the 17^th minute Franklin and Marshall was able to tie the game when Erin Coverdale stole the ball in the Monarch offensive end of the field, dribbled around a couple of defenders and then rocketed a shot from the right wing that Paige Tedik made a fantastic diving attempt to stop but the ball trickled off her pads and into the cage for a goal.

The Diplomats kept pushing for the go ahead goal with three shots in s 40 second span but the King's defense held tough keeping the ball out of the cage. Franklin and Marshall was able to score what would prove to be the game-winning goal in the 25^th minute when Sydney Cole's shot off a corner from Annie Horsley got deflected and pass the Monarch defense into the cage.

The Monarchs fought valiantly to get the game-tying goal but were unable to get a shot off against the highly touted Diplomat defense that entered the game with the 16^th ranked goals-against average in the nation.

Franklin and Marshall outshot the Monarchs 9-1 and held an 11-1 advantage in penalty corners.

Brianna DiMaggio had the lone goal for the Monarchs. Paige Tedik made two saves in goal for King's while Symantha Sharon had a defensive save.

The Monarch season comes to a conclusion with a 13-7 record. The Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom Champions captured the program's third conference title and first since winning back-to-back title in 2006-07 after being picked to finish fifth in the conference preseason poll.