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Kelly Janssen stops the ball with her blocker during a field hockey shootout with Middlebury in September 2025
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Kelly Janssen '28
2
Winner Hamilton HAMILTON (10-3, 5-3)
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Amherst AMHERST (6-7, 2-6)
Winner
Hamilton HAMILTON
(10-3, 5-3)
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Final
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Amherst AMHERST
(6-7, 2-6)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 OT OT OT F
Hamilton HAMILTON 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2
Amherst AMHERST 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1

Game Recap: Field Hockey | | Jim Taylor

No. 9 field hockey dominates shootout in 2-1 NESCAC win at Amherst

Goalie Janssen '28 stopped all four shots on goal after halftime and all three in the shootout

AMHERST, Mass. – Hamilton College scored on all three shootout attempts and the Continentals outlasted the Amherst College Mammoths 2-1 in NESCAC action at Amherst's Hill Field on Saturday, Oct. 18.
 

Season Update

  • Nationally ranked No. 9 Hamilton (10-3, 5-3 NESCAC) has won three straight games for the third time this season.
  • The Mammoths (6-7, 2-6), who lost for the third time in their last four games, were coming off a 6-1 win at Smith College on Oct. 15.
 

How It Happened

  • After a scoreless first quarter, both teams scored their goal in the second.
  • Alden Duserick '27 gave the Continentals a 1-0 lead 1:59 into the quarter. Eleanor Cooper '28 inserted the ball to Claire Tratnyek '26 near the top of the arc on a penalty corner and Tratnyek immediately passed it down to Duserick on the left side. Duserick took a split second to gather the pass and squeezed a wrist shot between goalie Kate Grady and the right post into the back of the cage.
  • Maya Harrington tied the score with 7:11 left in the second.
  • No goals were scored during the next 57 minutes, but there were some chances. Hamilton was awarded a corner midway through the first 10-minute overtime period and Tratnyek took two shots. The first was saved by Grady and the second was stopped by defender Emily Huehn.
  • The Continentals had one last chance as they earned three corners with no time left in the second overtime. Grady turned away a shot by Brighton McMahon '29 on the last corner.
  • The shootout was all Hamilton. Sammy Higgins '26, Morgan Clarke '28 and McMahon converted their attempts as the Continentals were a perfect 3-for-3. Hamilton goalie Kelly Janssen '28 took an aggressive approach, venturing way off her line to kick the ball away from Anna Aiello and Caroline White, and Amherst came up empty on all three attempts.
 

Notes

  • Duserick scored her fourth goal this season and her first against a NESCAC opponent.
  • Tratnyek picked up her first assist of 2025.
  • Janssen relieved starting goalie Abby Griffin '26 at the start of the third quarter and tied a season high with four saves. Janssen has a 1.04 goals against average and .758 save percentage in 460 minutes.
  • Head Coach Missy Mariano collected her 200th career win including 71 with the Continentals.
  • Hamilton is 2-1 in shootouts this year.
  • The Continentals held a 13-8 shot advantage. The Mammoths took half their shots in the first overtime.
  • Hamilton was awarded 11 corners to Amherst's five. The Mammoths didn't have a corner until the fourth quarter.
  • The Continentals defeated Amherst for the first time since 2019.
 

Next Game

Hamilton hosts Williams College (6-6, 4-3) for another conference contest on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 6 p.m.
 
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