Dragon Scores Career-High Five Goals To Lead No. 8 Field Hockey Past Mercy, 5-0
Box Score BROOKVILLE, N.Y. (Oct. 11, 2012) – Junior forward
Carlee Dragon (Bridgewater, N.J.) scored a career-high five goals to lead eighth-ranked LIU Post past Mercy College in a 5-0 victory Thursday afternoon on Hickox Field.
The win improves LIU Post's overall record to 7-6 while Mercy falls to 1-11.
Dragon scored her first goal in the ninth minute when she fired in a shot from up top on a corner pass from senior
Ashley Oracewski (Bay Shore, N.Y.). She added her second and third goals in the 20th and 34th minute of the first half.
The teams played without a goal through the first 20 minutes of the second half until Dragon scored on a 10-yard shot out front in the 66th minute. She tallied her final goal with 48 seconds left in regulation she shot a quick ball from the right post and into the top left corner.
LIU Post finished the game outshooting Mercy, 33-2, and had a 16-3 advantage in penalty corners.
Mercy goalkeeper Kristen Znaniecki made 16 stops in goal for the Marauders.