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Pine Valley, NY -- The Elmira College field hockey team (2-7, 0-4 E8) outscored Wells College (3-10) 6-0 today. Alli Gilbert '16 posted two goals and an assist while five different EC women scored in today's victory.
 
The game was scoreless for the first 15 minutes of action until Ashley Palmer '16 got a pass from Gilbert and blasted the ball past the goal keeper to put the Soaring Eagles into the lead. The score would remain 1-0 for 15 more minutes until Gilbert put in a shot off a pass from Becca Kraynak '16. Seconds before half-time the Purple and Gold increased the lead to three goals when McKenna Light '14 shot the ball towards the goal and Gilbert deflected the ball into the back of the cage.
 
The Soaring Eagles went right back to business in the second half as Light took the ball up the middle of the field and shot the ball past the goaltender to put EC up 4-0 just 24 seconds into the half.  In the 40th minute mark Caitlin Sickau '16 found the ball in a scramble in front of the net and quickly passed it to Sarah Watts '15 who slammed it home for a goal.  Six minutes later Emma Miklinski '17 scored her first colligate goal of her career off a pass from Watts.
 
The Soaring Eagles outshot Wells by a 34-3 margin in today's win. With the offensive and defensive efforts in the game goalie Lauren Thomas '14 didn't register a single save, while Mikayla Rebusmen '17 came in for mop-up duty for the final 17 minutes of action and produced one save. The six goals in today's action marks the most goals Elmira has scored since last season against Cedar Crest on October 15^th, 2012. This was also the largest margin of victory since the 2005 campaign, where EC put up an 8-0 shutout win against Wells College.

The EC women will look to use this win as momentum when they host Washington & Jefferson College this Saturday, October 12 at 1:00 p.m.