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2002 Results

United Airlines Field Hockey League Continues at UMass           

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. —The United Airlines Field Hockey League, U.S. Field Hockey’s elite-level summer competition series, resumes play this June 14-16 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Games are scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. Friday and continue from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. The weekend's schedule concludes with morning games on Sunday.

      The second weekend of the double round-robin tournament will produce the top four teams to advance to the League semifinals, July 5 at the U.S. Field Hockey National Training Center in Virginia Beach. The championship and consolation games are scheduled for July 6 at Virginia Beach.

      Three-time defending champion Southern Charm sits atop the league standings with a 5-1-0 record, followed by the Tidewater Tempest at 4-1-1 and the undefeated Midwest Cyclones at 3-0-3.  The Metro Rush enter the second week in fourth place with a 3-2-1 record with the Philadelphia Fury in fifth place (2-4-0), Pennyslvania Pride in sixth (1-4-1) and the New England Eclipse in seventh (0-6-0).

      With 12 of the 18-members of  Eclipse traveling roster either residents of Massachusetts or attending college in the state, the team will try to use the home-turf advantage to rebound from a winless first weekend. Area athletes expected to take the field for the Eclipse this week include Fiore Arrindell (Northeastern), Dalinda Banuelos (Boston Univ.), Christine Buckley (Walpole, Mass./U. New Hampshire), Carley Cooke (Gloucester, Mass./Northeastern), Maureen Connelly (Northeastern), Kerry Dougherty (Boston College), Celeste Hubbard (Boston Univ), Meredith Long (Boston Univ.), Jen McDavitt (Walpole HS),  Katie Scott (Harvard), Jen Stamp (Tyngsboro, Mass/U. New Hampshire) and Sara York (Watertown HS).  Head coach Heather Moles’ (asst. Boston Univ.) team also includes two-time Olympian Barb Marois.

      While the Eclipse looks to earn its first win of the season, the Tempest is on the verge of earning its first-ever trip to the League semifinals. Head coach Beth Anders’ (Old Dominion Univ.) team is led by two of the league’s leading scorers in Angela Loy (6 goals) and Sally Northcroft (4 goals). Loy will be the top returning scorer for Anders’ Old Dominion team in the fall, while Northcroft earned NCAA Player of the Year honors as a senior at Ball State in 1999-00.

      The Charm can clinch a fifth consecutive trip to the semifinals this week, but will need to do it with out its traditional lineup of Olympians and former national team standouts. Head coach Nick Conway (Assoc. head coach North Carolina) will look to 2001 collegiate all-Americans Abby Martin (North Carolina), Heather Auginbaugh (Wake Forest) and Kelly Doton (Wake Forest) to continue the team’s semifinal streak.

            Rosters of the 2002 United Airlines Field Hockey League teams 8  Olympians, 16 collegiate All-Americans, 15 high school All-Americans and 44 members of the U.S. National, Under-18, Under-23 and Under-16 teams.           

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