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BRIDGEWATER, Mass. --  Junior Emma Sanson (Thomaston) recorded her first career multi-goal game with a hat track as the Eastern Connecticut State University field hockey team scored four goals in a span of five minutes in the middle quarters in a 4-1 non-conference win over Bridgewater State University Saturday afternoon at Mazzaferro Field.
 
In winning its first two matches in a season for the first time since 2015, Eastern ran its unbeaten streak to six (5-0-1) against Bridgewater (0-2). The Warriors have outscored their two opponents this year, 9-1.
 
Sanson, the team's second career active goal-scorers with 15 goals, recorded the 15^th game of three or more goals in program history when she scored more than once for the first time in her 38-match career. Sanson scored three times, giving Eastern a 1-0 lead in the 28^th minute, and after sophomore All-Little East Conference midfielder Grace Barlage (Guilford) made it 2-0 less than three minutes later when she potted her ninth career goal in just her 20^th game just four seconds before the half, Sanson scored added two more in the opening two minutes of the second half.
 
The final three-goal margin is the largest by either team in the 25-game series and the four goals equal the most by Eastern against Bridgewater in the series.
 
Senior Liz LaMarco (West Hartford), the program's active scoring leader with 17 goals and 46 points, added her 12^th career assist on Barlage's marker, and junior Angelina Falleni (Byram, NJ) contributed her first assist of the season – seventh of her career – on Sanson's third goal.
 
Making the second straight start of her career, senior Kiana Webster (Raymond, ME), kept her goals-against average at 0.00 in 75 minutes this year by making three saves and departing after three quarters with a 4-0 lead. In her first appearance of the season, junior Hannah Jalowiec (Cheshire) closed out the match in net, playing the fourth quarter.
 
Sanson and Barlage combined to take 11 of the team's 16 shots as the Warriors outshot the hosts by ten.
 
Eastern visits Springfield College Tuesday at 6 p.m. for a non-conference match at Stagg Field. Both of the Warriors wins over the Pride in the nine-game series have come since 2021. After being shut out in its first two matches this year, Springfield rebounded Saturday to defeat homestanding Western Connecticut State University -- like Eastern a member of the Little East Conference – by a 1-0 score. The Pride outshot the Wolves, 33-4 and held a 21-0 advantage in corners.