Oct. 15, 2004
Box Score
OXFORD, Ohio -- On a cold and rainy Friday afternoon at Miami's Turf Field the Ball State Cardinals upended the Miami field hockey team, 2-0, in a back-and-forth contest. The game was the start of the second half of the Mid-American Conference schedule for both teams as the Red and White lose the first of a three-game homestand.
For 30 minutes in the first half both teams worked the ball on offense and defense to no avail without a score. Ball State put an end to the scoreless game, however, at 30:34 when Carla Chiampi put in her own rebound to put the Cardinals up, 1-0. It was Chiampi's third goal of the season.
Miami had a penalty corner at the end of the first stanza and was able to bring everone up since there was no time left on the clock. Senior Katie Moran (St. Louis, Mo./Nerinx Hall) ripped a vicious shot in the direction of the goal, but Ball State goalie Tracy Bannister stopped the strike for one of her five saves in the contest.
After the break, Ball State appeared rejuvenated as it outshot the RedHawks in the second frame, 13-2. Two shots by Holly Frantz nearly put BSU up by two goals early in the period but a stop by senior goalie Kerri Orr (San Diego, Calif./Serra) and defensive save by freshman Meredith Corradino (Oceanport, N.J./Shore Regional) kept Frantz out of the net. However, Corradino's save resulted in a penalty stroke for BSU at 47:21. Orr made one of her 11 saves in the game on Jen Strodel's stroke attempt to keep the game at 1-0.
The RedHawks went on a quick surge after Strodel's missed stroke, but the Cardinals turned the momentum right around on Miami at 57:42 in the half. Chantelle Isaac started the pivotal rush when she broke through with the ball in the midfield. Isaac slipped a pass to Tara Reed on the far left wing in the scoring circle and Reed finished the play with her second goal of the season. Reed's goal made it 2-0 in favor of the Cardinals, a lead that would stand after 70 minutes of regulation play.
The RedHawks play their second game of the current homestand tomorrow afternoon against MAC-foe Eastern Michigan at 1 p.m.
