SCRANTON, Pa. – Manhattanville field hockey marks their return to postseason action as the Valiants have qualified for the No. 4 seed in the 2024 Atlantic East Conference Championship. With the team looking to secure its first tournament victory since 2019, Manhattanville loads the bus for Scranton to take on the regular season champions and top seeded Pacers of Marywood on Saturday afternoon.
  How We Got Here
The Valiants are in the playoffs for the first time since 2022 when the team secured a berth in the Atlantic East Championship during its inaugural year in the conference. After missing the postseason outright last year after going 0-6 in conference play, Manhattanville was able to secure the final spot in the 2024 tournament thanks to a 1-0 win over AEC foe Neumann on Oct. 26. The win was Manhattanville's first conference victory since Oct. 12, 2022, and was just what the team needed to secure fourth in the conference standings.

On the other half of the opening round matchup, Marywood has proven themselves to be the team to beat in the Atlantic East. The Pacers enter the postseason carrying a 12-6 overall record and a perfect 4-0 mark in the Atlantic East. While Marywood did see its four-game win streak snapped at the hands of TCNJ in its regular season finale on Oct. 30, 4-1, the Pacers outscored Atlantic East opponents by a 21-3 margin.

The two teams met in Manhattanville's last postseason appearance, with Marywood notching a 3-2 victory in the first round of the 2022 Atlantic East Championship. This year's winner advances into the championship finals on Nov. 9, taking on the winner of No. 2 Immaculata-No. 3 Gwynedd Mercy.

Last Time Out
The Valiants witnessed the explosive Pacer offense firsthand in the regular season meeting on Oct. 23, falling to Marywood by a final of 9-0. Cydney Lahr and Dariane Jones led the visitors' offense in the contest in Purchase, both scoring a pair of goals and earning an assist. Maria Tomada also wreaked havoc with 13 total shot attempts, scoring twice.

Manhattanville finished with just four shots in the loss—a pair from Hannah Revell (South Glens Falls, N.Y./South Glens Falls) and one apiece off the sticks of Keira Guinan (Seaford, N.Y./Seaford) and Alyssa Monahan (East Fishkill, NY/John Jay High School). Facing no shortage of shot attempts, all three Valiant netminders saw plenty of action in the contest. Hannah Doherty (Clarkstown, N.Y./Clarkstown South) made five saves in a quarter of play, while Lidia Vasquez-Sinisi (Selden, N.Y./Newfield) made six stops in her 15 minutes. Cat Morgan (Hopewell Junction, N.Y./John Jay Senior) saw the longest duration in the cage, recording 13 saves in 30 minutes of game time.

Team Leaders
Manhattanville

• Points: Cosmo (8), Guinan (8), Monahan (7)
• Goals: Guinan (4), Cosmo (3), Monahan (3)
• Assists: Benedetto (3), Cosmo (2), Keena (2)
• Goals Against Average: Vasquez-Sinisi (1.41), H. Doherty (2.10), Morgan (3.23)

Marywood

• Points: Lahr (42), Jones (41), Tomada (39)
• Goals: Lahr (19), Jones (16), Tomada (16)
• Assists: Jones (9), Tomada (7), Straub (5), Slusser (5)
• Goals Against Average: Horner/Hall (0.00), Frazer (1.39), Keagy (3.01)

History

• All-Time Record vs Marywood: 0-6
• Streak: Marywood W6
• Series Record at Marywood: 0-2
• Last Five Matchups (Home team listed second):
  • 10/23/24: Marywood 9, Manhattanville 0
  • 10/7/23: Manhattanville 0, Marywood 10
  • 10/29/22: Manhattanville 2, Marywood 3
  • 10/22/22: Marywood 5, Manhattanville 0
  • 9/1/18: Marywood 4, Manhattanville 2 (Neutral Site)

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