No. 5 Blue Devils Roll Over William & Mary

Friday, October 17

Williamsburg, Va.

7:00 p.m.

Duke University

William & Mary

No. 5 Blue Devils Roll Over William & Mary

10/17/2008 12:00:00 AM | Field Hockey

By: Duke Sports Information

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. ? A hat trick from senior Marian Dickinson propelled the No. 5 Duke field hockey team to a 7-1 road victory over William & Mary Friday night at Busch Field, moving the Blue Devils to 11-3 (2-2 ACC) on the season.

Dickinson also added an assist for a seven-point performance, while all of her goals came after halftime.

The seven goals was the highest output of the season and the most for Duke since scoring seven on two occasions during the 2006 season, on Sept. 16, 2006 against Appalachian State and on Oct. 9, 2006 against Villanova. Dickinson also had a trick in that Appalachian State game.

The win was Duke's fifth in a row.

“I thought we started off very strong and I was impressed with the first part of the first half,” said head coach Beth Bozman. “We did allow William & Mary to get some momentum and that led to their goal at the end of the first half with time expired, which was frustrating, but we talked at halftime and came back and played a solid 35 minutes in the second half.”

Duke led 3-1 at the half after Amie Survilla got Duke on the board first, notching her team-best ninth goal of the season eight minutes into the game off a penalty corner. Survilla took the shot from the top of the circle, with the assist going to Dickinson and Brooke Patterson on the corner.

Susan Ferger scored Duke's second goal, her seventh of the year, a one-timer to the far post off a pass from the left from Megan Deakins to put Duke up 2-0 at the 17:30 mark. Deakins would then come back with a goal of her own 30 minutes in, her sixth of the year, off the assist from Ferger. Deakins finished Ferger's initial shot into the right side of the cage.

William & Mary jumped on the board next, making it 3-1, after they converted on a penalty corner chance with time expired in the first. The goal was scored by Drew Wesley off the assist from Rebecca Wagner, a hard shot from the left side. But that would be the Tribe's only goal of the day as Duke put four more on the board after regrouping in the locker room.

Dickinson scored the fourth through sixth goals for the Blue Devils, the first coming at the 46:55 mark off a corner as the ball found its way back to Dickinson after she took it, with the pass coming from Lauren Miller from the top. Dickinson's second goal was at the 55:54 point, also an assist from Miller as she lifted the ball into the cage from the left to extend the lead to 5-1 at that point.

Dickinson wrapped up the hat trick six minutes later, taking a pass from Sarah Schoffstall from outside the circle and firing it into the left side.

Miller concluded the Duke scoring brigade with her first of the season off a late penalty corner, extending it to 7-1 with just two seconds on the clock as she took the hard shot from the top of the circle. The assists went to the corner tandem of Schoffstall and Pauline Lim.

Duke converted on seven of its 17 shots, holding William & Mary to seven shots. Samantha Nelson made three stops in the cage. Duke led 9-4 on penalty corners.

Dickinson now needs just one more goal to move into fifth all-time at Duke, sitting at 49 for her career.

“Marian had been struggling in her finishing but today everything came together,” said Bozman of the senior captain. “She did a great job on both ends of the field for us.”

The Tribe drop to 4-10 with the loss.

Duke will remain in Virginia to play Old Dominion for the second time this season ? defeating the Lady Monarchs 1-0 earlier in the year ? on Sunday at 1 p.m. in Norfolk. The team is also holding a high school clinic while in the area, taking place tomorrow from 3-5 p.m. at the National Training Center in Virginia Beach.

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