Field Hockey Blanks Vermont, 1-0

Sunday, September 22

Hamden, Conn.

12:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

Vermont

Photo by: Rob Rasmussen / P8Photos.com

9/22/2019 2:25:00 PM | Field Hockey

Box Score

Strubbe Scores Game-Winner in Third Quarter, Biermann-Ratjen Records Second Shutout

By: QU Athletic Communications

HAMDEN, Conn. – Bianka Strubbe (Wroclaw, Poland) tallied her fourth goal of the season and third straight on a penalty corner Sunday afternoon as the Quinnipiac field hockey team blanked the Vermont Catamounts, 1-0, in non-conference play.

Strubbe now has a career-high in goals scored and tied her career-high with nine points after her tremendous start to the 2019 season. Inès Ruiz Martinez (Madrid, Spain) and Valerie Perkins (Mohegan Lake, New York) each recorded their third assists on Strubbe's penalty corner goal in the winning effort.

Freshman goalkeeper Hedda Biermann-Ratjen (Hamburg, Germany) notched her second career shutout and second win with a three-save effort, making two of her three saves in the first half of action.

The Bobcats have tallied two shutouts in three home games during the 2019 season, improving their home record to 2-1 after Sunday's win against Vermont.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 1, Vermont 0

LOCATION
Quinnipiac Field Hockey Stadium | Hamden, Conn.

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (2-5, 0-1 BIG EAST) | Vermont (3-4, 0-0 AE)

SCORING SUMMARY

43:57 (Quinnipiac 1, Vermont 0): Perkins inserted the ball from the far side for the penalty corner and Ruiz Martinez made the stop for Strubbe to rifle the ball just past Vermont goalkeeper Sierra Espeland for the goal

NOTES

Strubbe now has a career-high four goals and tied her career-high with nine points after Sunday's goal
Strubbe also has points in four of her six games this season and seven of her last nine dating back to the 2018 season
Ruiz Martinez is up to three assists and three points on the season, and now has 12 assists and 18 points in her career
Perkins tied her career-high from last season with her third assist of 2019 and now has 25 career points
Biermann-Ratjen's shutout gives her two on the season, tied for the most by a Quinnipiac goalkeeper in the past five seasons
She also lowered her GAA to 2.02 on the season and now has 32 saves with a .762 save percentage

FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Becca Main
"We had been questioning our team's guts and grittiness, and that came into play today. It was a pretty ugly game, it's not often you play a game from the 25 to the 25 and bounce it back and forth. That's one maybe eked out because we stayed calm and composed.

"We were classy and did a nice job of keeping our cool, which is good because we're a very introverted team so it came in handy today against a team that is very aggressive, vocal and physical."

On Bianka's performance this season
"For Bianka, what's really important is we had a spring season with her. When you have a spring, you spend a lot of time on attack penalty corners, on drags and sweeps and hits. She loves to drag the ball, it's kind of a dynamic skill, but her hit is so good that I had to talk her into it. About two weeks ago, I talked her into getting away from the drag and do the hit.

"It's all about the timing. If Bianka doesn't get the timing right with her stick stop, then she can't hit it right. So I know she would say that Valerie and Ines did a really nice job."

Bianka Strubbe
On her comfortability this year
"Last year I came in and was like a freshman, being a first-year student and I didn't know how everything worked here. Right now, I'm [like a] sophomore and I feel like I'm more comfortable and feel like I am doing a good job. The coaches are giving me a lot of freedom to play my field hockey and it works."

UP NEXT

The Bobcats hit the road for their second BIG EAST game of the season as they face Georgetown Friday afternoon at 1 PM before returning back home Sunday to host Columbia at 1 PM.