HAZLETON \u2013 Bella Boyle and the Hazleton Area field hockey team couldn\u2019t have scripted a better start to their season.<\/p>\n
The junior standout scored five goals, including the 100th of her career, in a 7-2 win over Whitehall on Saturday. She then made a verbal commitment to continue her academic and athletic careers at Division I Holy Cross early Monday, before capping her whirlwind three days with a nine-goal performance in the Lady Cougars\u2019 11-1, non-league victory over Holy Redeemer on Monday evening at Harman-Geist Stadium.<\/p>\n
Boyle didn\u2019t let her college decision impact her play in the slightest, though she admittedly was ecstatic with her choice of the school in Worcester, Mass.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s easy to say I picked Holy Cross because it checks all my boxes: It\u2019s an amazing school academically and has great Division 1 field hockey,\u201d she said. \u201cBut so much more than that was how it felt like home the minute I stepped on campus along with the incredible support I felt from the field hockey staff. It\u2019s where I see myself for four years of my life as a home away from home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boyle\u2019s teammate Lauren Harmonosky and the Royals\u2019 Addison Vavrek swapped goals to start the scoring on Monday, before Boyle connected off a Meadow Pavlick penalty corner and added an unassisted tally late in the first half to give Hazleton Area a 3-1 halftime edge.<\/p>\n
The floodgates began to open in the third quarter as Boyle scored twice in a one-minute span, the second on a successful penalty stroke. She later assisted on a Jacelyn Pena goal for a 6-1 lead for her team.<\/p>\n
Hazleton Area\u2019s all-time leading goal scorer continued her barrage in the final period, scoring twice off Addison Bobrowski assists, knocking in two more unassisted goals and putting in another goal off a Harmonosky helper to cap the scoring.<\/p>\n
In addition to her own goal, Pena assisted on Harmonosky\u2019s score.<\/p>\n
The Lady Cougars outshot Redeemer by a 28-3 margin and their consistent pressure led to a 13-2 advantage in penalty corners.<\/p>\n
Winning goalie Jas Pena made two saves.<\/p>\n
Hazleton Area will play host to Tunkhannock on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAZLETON \u2013 Bella Boyle and the Hazleton Area field hockey team couldn\u2019t have scripted a better start to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[30099,1245,5,30100,562,14072,43],"class_list":["post-653301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-carbon-county","tag-high-school-sports","tag-hockey","tag-luzerne-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-schuylkill-county","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117194262040921657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}