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October 26, 2004

Bloomsburg Wins in PSAC Semifinals, Faces IUP in Conference Championship

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BLOOMSBURG—The Bloomsburg University field hockey team opened the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference playoffs with a 4-1 win over Kutztown University Tuesday afternoon in semifinal action.

The Huskies will face Indiana (PA) in the PSAC title game on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Bloomsburg. The Indians were 4-1 winners over Shippensburg in the other semifinal game.

Blomsburg and Kutztown battled up and down the field in the opening minutes of play with neither team getting off a shot on goal.

With 26 minutes left to play in the period, Kutztown's Laura Belfatti had a shot on goal on a corner play with Bloomsburg goalie Tracey Hudak getting a kick save to keep the game scoreless.

The Huskies had their first scoring chance off a corner play with 10:45 left in the first half when Maribeth Brozena had a shot go just wide of the goal. Bloomsburg finally broke through with 1:28 left in the first period off a corner play. Alison Poff took the initial shot for Bloomsburg that was redirected by Jackie Loehwing to Ashley Heckard. The freshman then drilled home the shot into the left corner of the goal to give the Huskies a 1-0 lead.

The Huskies added to their lead just over a minute into the second half off another corner play when Sharla Partlon fired a shot past the Golden Bear goalie for a 2-0 lead.

Kutztown came back with three penalty corners in a one-minute span with 30 minutes to play, but the Golden Bears got off just one shot in the sequence.

Bloomsburg made it 3-0 with 15:52 to play when Maribeth Brozena scored off a Marie Zorzi assist on the Huskies' fifth corner of the half.

The Huskies iced the game with a goal by Morgan Wolf off an assist from Colleen Greenlee with 10:11 left to play in the game.

Kutztown finally broke through with 25 seconds to play when Colleen Healey scored off an assist from Lauren Blaine on a corner play.

Bloomsburg improves to 18-3 on the year, while Kutztown is now 14-6.