Field Hockey Douses Third Consecutive Ranked Opponent, Beating No. 18 Liberty 5-1

Friday, October 4

Lynchburg, Va.

1:00 PM

Temple University

(6-4, 2-1BIG EAST)

Liberty

(5-5, 1-2BIG EAST)

Temple

Liberty

Photo by: Anthony Getz

Field Hockey Douses Third Consecutive Ranked Opponent, Beating No. 18 Liberty 5-1

10.4.24 | Field Hockey

Box Score

LYNCHBURG, Va. – Tess Muller and Peyton Rieger each scored a pair of goals as the Temple field hockey team defeated its third consecutive ranked opponent, downing the No. 18 Liberty Flames 5-1 in a BIG EAST contest on Friday afternoon.

BY THE NUMBERS

It was the first win for Temple against Liberty since the initial meeting between the schools in 2011.
For both Muller and Rieger, the goals were their fourth and fifth of the season.
Alize Maes also scored, finishing off a well-executed penalty corner.
Muller, Rieger and Marsha Ariesen each contributed an assist.
Isabella Ospitale was a wall in cage for Temple, making a career-high eight saves while lowering her goals against average to 1.07.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Temple started hot out of the gates as Muller made an individual effort in the right side of the circle before lofting the ball past the Liberty keeper for a 1-0 TU lead.
Ospitale made sure the lead stood through the end of the frame, making an initial save on a corner and then stopping a subsequent penalty stroke with just more than four minutes to go.
Early in the second quarter, the Flames tied the game coming off a penalty corner. The rest of the half was played evenly as the teams went into the break, knotted at 1-1.
Four minutes into the second half, TU executed a perfect corner as Muller inserted, the ball was trapped by Ariesen and Maes smacked the ball home from the top of the circle.
Temple extended the lead in just seconds into the fourth as Rieger found the back of the cage on a rebound in front. Four minutes later, on another corner, Rieger deflected the ball to Muller, who delivered her second goal of the game to push the advantage to 4-1.
Closing the scoring, Rieger poked home a pass across the circle from Matthea Lassalle in the final minute.

UP NEXT
Temple returns home to host Wagner on Sunday, October 6. Game time is set for noon. It is Alumni Day for the Owls