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Blythe-Wood Sets School Record As Spiders Win A-10 Opener
10/09/2009 | Field Hockey
Oct. 9, 2009
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - Senior Sarah Blythe-Wood set the school record for goals in a game (5), senior Megan Thompson tied the single-game record for assists (3) and the Richmond field hockey team tied the school record for goals in a 12-0 victory over Saint Louis on Friday.
The Spiders scored just 51 seconds into the Atlantic 10 opener and had a 4-0 lead less than seven minutes in as they won for the 55th time in the last 60 games against Atlantic 10 teams.
Blythe-Wood scored her school-record setting five goals on just seven shots and the Spiders scored their record-tying 12 goals on just 22 shots. Blythe-Wood entered the day leading the Atlantic 10 in goals and now has a team-leading 14, which is just one goal out of the 10th spot on Richmond's single-season list. She is just three points out of the 10th spot for single-season points with an Atlantic 10 leading 35.
Blythe-Wood had 11 points in the game with a second-half assist, which has her ninth on Richmond's all-time scoring list (71 points), one point behind Thompson (72), who had five points Friday with a goal and school-record tying three assists.
Blythe-Wood and Thompson are now tied for ninth on Richmond's all-time goals list with 28 apiece and are both close to cracking the school's top-10 list for assists. Thompson has 16 career assists, one behind Melissa D'Anton for 10th, while Blythe-Wood has 15 assists.
Three Richmond players had scored four goals in game with Shannon Taylor and Heather Rice both accomplishing the feat twice, and Holly Cram doing so once. But no Spider in Richmond school history has scored the five goals that Blythe-Wood scored on Friday.
Seven different players scored for Richmond and six different players had an assist.
Junior Christin Hanley scored two goals, while junior Hannah Hess, senior Adrian Pickar, junior Dani Pycroft, sophomore Katelin Peterson and Thompson each had a goal.
Pickar, freshman Liesl Schnuck, junior Michelle Weaver and senior Becky White also had assists.
Richmond goalkeepers Jacki Raithel and Ann Jefferis combined on Richmond's fourth shutout of the season.
Richmond returns to nonconference play on Sunday when the Spiders host No. 11 ranked James Madison at 1 p.m.
