PURCHASE, N.Y. – The Manhattanville College field hockey team put up their highest goal total of the season Tuesday night against Stevens, winning 4-3 under the lights at GoValiants.com Field.

Junior Emily Antinozzi (Rye, N.Y./Rye) led the way for Manhattanville (4-10) with two goals, sophomore Ameerah Thomas (Norfolk, Va./Granby) added a goal and an assist, and fellow sophomore Robin Boot (Bedum, Netherlands/H.N. Werkman College) added a goal for the Valiants.

Junior Brooke Hadgraft (Sandy Hook, Conn./Newtown) had a penalty shot four minutes in that beat Stevens (6-8) starting goalkeeper Nicole Mattole, but struck the post, denying Hadgraft her first career goal. Thomas struck first, just over nine minutes in, knocking home her third goal of the season in front of the left post. Cassidy O'Hearn answered just shy of the 27-minute mark for the Ducks, squaring the match at one at halftime.

The second half started with a bang for the Valiants as sophomore Robin Boot (Bedum, Netherlands/H.N. Werkman College) gave the Valiants a 2-1 lead less than a minute in with her fourth goal of the season. Senior goalie Kaitlin Halloran (Nesconset, N.Y./Smithtown East) stepped up from there, recording six of her 17 saves, including one on a penalty shot, over a 24-minute span to keep the Valiants ahead.

From there, Antinozzi took over, first scoring on a breakaway off a long pass from Thomas, getting around the keeper inside the circle, to push Manhattanville's lead to two. Then, after Hannah Silvestri's first goal of the season for Stevens cut the margin back to one, Antinozzi, in nearly identical fashion to her first goal, sped past the defense, dribbled around the goalie, and fired into an open net for her team-leading 11th goal of the season.

Antinozzi's second goal proved even more critical when O'Hearn scored her second goal of the match in the final 10 seconds of regulation.
The Valiants are back in action at 7:00 p.m. tomorrow night against MAC Freedom foe DeSales University.