US Field Hockey News

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Charm, Tempest Advance to Summer League Finals

Virginia Beach - Four-time defending champion Southern Charm and the Tidewater Tempest earned semifinal wins to advance to the championship game of U.S. Field Hockey's Summer League.

The championship and consolation games are scheduled for 2:15 p.m. Sunday at the U.S. Field Hockey National Training Center. The Charm defeated the Metro Rush, 3-1, and the Tempest defeated the Midwest Cyclones, 5-3, to advance to the final

Australian Olympian Jackie Pereira scored two goals to help lift the Charm to its fifth consecutive championship game. Pereira scoredthe game's first goal in the15th minute and added the clinching goal in the 54th minute to help the Charm advance.

Kerry Falgowski added a penalty stroke goal in the 19th minute to give the Charm a 2-0 halftime lead, before Jennifer Stone connected on a field goal in the 52nd minute to pull the Rush to within 2-1.

In the other semifinal, Tara Hermann scored three goals to help the Tempest advance to its first-ever Summer League championship game.

The Tempest and Cyclones exchanged goals throughout the first 54 minutes of the games with the Tempest taking a one goal leads only to have the Midwest team answer to tie the game.

The Tempest took the lead for good on a goal by the Univ. of Richmond's Allie Howard with 7 minutes remaining before Hermann clinched the game with the final goal of her hat trick in the 70th minute.

Liz Sanders, Lindsay Rothenberger and Alex Kyser scored goals for the Cyclones who will now face the Rush in the consolation game on Sunday.