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BABSON PARK, Mass. -- Senior co-captain Jess Paladino
(Turner, Maine) scored three goals and assisted two others
for a career-high eight points to lift the Babson College field
hockey team to a 7-2 win over visiting Bridgewater State College in
the Beavers' home opener at MacDowell Field on Tuesday night. With
the victory, Babson improved to 4-2 on the year, while Bridgewater
State fell to 4-1 with its first loss of the 2009 season.
Paladino wasted little time in giving Babson the lead, as she
scored off a cross from junior co-captain Colleen Kelly
(Milton, Mass.) just 1:47 into the contest. She then made
it 2-0 off a penalty corner push from sophomore Kim Calhoun
(Holliston, Mass.) at 12:34, and first-year Kelly
Walsh (Gardner, Mass.) and junior Sarah Fredlund
(New Preston, Conn.) each added unassisted tallies later
in the period as the hosts took a commanding 4-0 lead into
halftime.
The Beavers continued their onslaught early in the second half,
as Paladino assisted sophomore Courtney Weaving (New
Preston, Conn.) on a goal at 40:20. Bridgewater State
junior Nicole Henrique (Swansea, Mass.) then put her team on the
board with a goal from classmate Bethany Bush (Littleton, Mass.) at
64:48, but Paladino notched her third goal of the game off another
Kelly feed to make it 6-1 just 32 seconds later.
Henrique netted her second of the night off her own rebound at
the 66-minute mark to cut the Bears' deficit back to four, but
Paladino assisted Fredlund on a nice 2-on-1 break to finish off the
7-2 Babson victory. The eight points was the most of Paladino's
career and it was the second-highest single-game output in program
history behind only Elise Conley's 10-point effort on September 9,
2004 - also against Bridgewater State.
Sophomore goalie Jess Pashos (Winchester,
Mass.) finished with five saves without allowing a goal in
52 minutes of stellar play for Babson, with two of her stops coming
on breakaways. Senior Emily Cohen (West Grove,
Pa.) played the final 18 minutes and made one save for the
Beavers, while junior Katie Weber (Arlington, Mass.) stopped 13
shots in net for the Bears.
