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MANSFIELD, Conn. – The Eastern Connecticut State University field hockey team heads into the teeth of its Little East Conference season Saturday when it hosts defending LEC regular-season champion Vermont State University Castleton at noon on Senior Day at Rick McCarthy Field.

After winning its LEC opener this past Saturday for the first time in four years, Eastern (5-7, 1-0 LEC) will be facing Castleton (5-6, 1-0 LEC) coming off a 5-1 non-conference loss to Connecticut College Tuesday evening at McCarthy Field.

While the Warriors absorbed their seventh straight loss at the hands of Conn, they managed to break a 346 minute scoreless streak over six matches against Conn when sophomore Ava Korineck (East Lyme) scored her first career goal off of first-year forward Mackenzie Ray's (Grantham, NH) first career assist with four minutes remaining.

Eastern held its own against Conn through the majority of the first half and trailed by only 1-0 before Conn added a second goal inside the final minute of the second half, and tacked on two more goals I a span of less than two minutes early in the second half.

While Conn entered the match with only three wins, three of its five losses came against teams ranked in the national top eight and another against the nation's No. 21-ranked team (all four of those opponents are members of the Camels' conference).

Following the Conn match, Eastern is scheduled to play six of its final eight regular-season matches in the conference, with the University of Hartford (Oct.15) and Clark University (Oct. 29) the only non-conference opponents the rest of the way.

Castleton won all six of its LEC regular-season matches en route to the LEC regular-season title last year and won its eighth straight contest against LEC regular-season opponents over three seasons with a 5-0 home win over Western Connecticut this past Saturday in its 2025 LEC opener. The Spartans lost their first four contests this year before bouncing back by winning five of their next six before losing to Western New England University, 2-1, in a non-conference match Tuesday night in Springfield, MA.

Among common opponents, the Warriors and Spartans have both faced and lost to RPI this year, Eastern by a 6-1 score on the road Sept. 20 and Castleton by 3-2 at home Sept. 10.
Since joining the LEC in 2018, Castleton is 7-1 against Eastern, winning by a combined margin of 23-6 in winning the last four times the teams have met. The Warriors' win against the Spartans came by a 3-0 score in 2021 (outshooting them 17-0) enroute to the LEC playoff championship.

In 12 matches this year, three players have recorded 20 of the team's 25 goals: Grace Barlage (Guilford) and Audrey Molin (Vernon) with seven and Emma Sanson (Thomaston) with six. Rebecca Minaya (Stafford) leads the team with five assists, Barlage adding three and Sanson and Jenna Boardman (Columbia) two each.

Defenders Sophie Ash (Mystic), Angelina Falleni (Byram, NJ) and Katie Harrington (Keene, NH) have started all 12 matches while Veronica McKenna (Wethersfield) and Hannah Jalowiec (Cheshire) have split time in goal. McKenna is 3-5 with a 1.95 goals-against average, Jalowiec 2-2 with a 2.39 GAA.

Like Eastern, Castleton has looked to three players to handle most of its scoring: Gwyn Vincent (7-5-19), Ava LaRoss (6-2-14) and Peyton Richardson (4-1-9). Zoe Martin has played every minute in net and shows a 3.02 GAA.

Jalowiec, Falleni and Sanson will be honored on Senior Day and will play  their final career regular-season home matches Nov. 1 against the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.