Box Score
MANSFIELD, Conn. – The Eastern Connecticut State University field hockey team scored three times in the first nine minutes and eased to a 5-0 non-conference victory over Regis College in its 2024 season-opener Wednesday afternoon at Rick McCarthy Field.

Now 6-0 all-time against Regis (1-1), Eastern outshot the Pride 21-3 and was awarded 14 of the game's 15 penalty corners.

Excluding a 3-2 overtime home win against Keene State College in the pandemic season in March of 2021, Eastern won its season-opener for the first time since shutting out Anna Maria College at home, 5-0, in 2015 en route to a 13-win season which concluded with a first berth in the Little East Conference championship game.

Sophomore Grace Barlage (Guilford), the team leader in goals and points in her first season last year, had her first career multi-goal game, scoring the team's first goal just 127 seconds into the contest, and its last 35 seconds into the fourth quarter.

Junior Emma Sanson (Thomaston) scored her 12^th career goal two minutes after Barlage's opening marker in the first quarter and added her eighth career assist when sophomore Katie Harrington (Keene, NH) made it 4-0 midway through the second quarter with her third career goal. Graduate Kaylee Drobish (Wallingford) added her tenth career goal to give Eastern a 3-0 lead after the first quarter and collected her eighth career assist on Barlage's final goal in the opening seconds of the fourth quarter.

Senior Liz LaMarco (West Hartford), the program's active leader in goals, assists and points, assisted on Barlage's opening goal with a cross inside the circle for her 11^th career assist.

Senior Kiana Webster (Raymond, ME) and sophomore Veronica McKenna (Wethersfield) shared the shutout in goal, with Webster making the only save in the second quarter en route to her second career win in her first career start.

Eastern visits Bridgewater State University in a non-conference match Saturday at noon at Swenson Field. The Warriors have gone unbeaten (4-0-1) against the Bears in the last five meetings. The Bears (0-1) are coming off a 3-2 loss at Plymouth State University of the Little East Conference in their opener Friday. Bridgewater was 4-12-1 a year ago and is looking for its first winning season since 2016.

 Last year, the teams played to a 1-1 tie through 50 minutes at McCarthy Field before the contest was stopped due to lightning.