When and Where: October 31, 2023 – Pleasantville, N.Y. (Peter X. Finnerty Field)
What:  Northeast-10 Championship Quarterfinals
Score:  #4 Pace University 1, #5 Southern New Hampshire University 0
Records: SNHU 10-8, Pace 13-6

Fifth-seeded SNHU field hockey fell to fourth-seeded Pace University 1-0 in the Northeast-10 Championship Quarterfinals on Tuesday in Pleasantville, N.Y.
 
KEY MOMENTS

• The only goal of the game came with just 33 seconds left in the third quarter.
• NE10 leading scorer Krista Dietz scored off a long pass from Isabella Boertjes for the game's only goal.
• SNHU went with an extra attacker, pulling sophomore goalie Emma Peeters (Wageningen, Netherlands) with 4:22 to play.
• Peeters did re-enter with 1:50 left to make a save on a Dietz penalty stroke to keep the game 1-0.

 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• Pace outshot the Penmen 13-9.
• The Setters had 12 penalty corners while the Penmen had four.
• Pace goalie Celeste Pagliaroli made seven saves.
• Peeters made eight saves for SNHU.

NOTES

• The Penmen finished with five wins in the last six regular-season games and the ten wins for the season was the most since 2019 when SNHU played in the NCAA Division II tournament.
• Freshman Minke van de Poll (Oosterbeek, Netherlands) led the Penmen with 14 goals, most in a season by an SNHU freshman, and one goal off the single-season program record of 15 set in 2019 by Laura van der Doorn and Helene Servais.
• Junior Annemartine Christis (s'Hertgogenbosch, Netherlands) and sophomore Anne Wiersma (Veldhoven, the Netherlands) eached scored 25 points this season.
• Christis, with 72 career points, ranks third all-time.
• Pace leads the all-time series with the Penmen 8-1, taking both meetings this year.

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