Mease, Saulin lead Pennsville field hockey past Salem; includes all of Monday’s Salem County sports results, will be updated
FIELD HOCKEY
Pennsville 6, Salem 1
Cumberland 5, Salem Tech 1
By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News
SALEM – Gracie Mease and Izzy Saulin are inseparable when it comes to the field hockey field. They sit together on the team bus on the way to games. They do pre-game warmups together. They’re as close to a Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid combination a team can have.
So it just goes to figure they connected together on all three of Mease goals in the first half and played some role in all six of Pennsville’s goals in total in a 6-1 victory over Salem Monday afternoon.
Mease, a senior left forward, figured in all four Pennsville goals in the first half with her first career hat trick and an assist. Saulin, a senior center mid, had a goal in the fourth quarter and a career-high four assists.
“We do try to partner up in as much as we can and then we just find each other,” Saulin said. “We don’t, like, plan it necessarily, but it happens. It’s funny because we don’t really talk (about it), we’ll just be partners.”
“For all four years we’ve been partners for everything,” Mease said. “I just think we work very well together.”
The Eagles have had 1-2 combinations like them in the past, but none coach Lisa Doran could recall in recent years.
“They just work together well, they talk to each other and they’re just a good combination, so that’s why they’re where they are, because they play well together,” Doran said. “They’re really starting to connect.”
Before Monday’s game, Mease had scored only four goals in her three previous seasons with the Eagles (3-1). Saulin had only five career assists. But they were on target against the Rams (0-3).
Mease opened the scoring less than three minutes into the match. Julliana Love answered for the Rams 30 seconds later to tie it, then it was all Pennsville. Kendall Hoyt (on an assist from Mease) and Gina Haubrich (on an assist from Saulin) scored the other two goals. The Eagles outshot their hosts 17-5 and had a 14-2 edge in corners.
“I think we just really came together as a team and just focused on playing all as one instead of 11 different players on the field,” Saulin said. “I think that’s really what was the difference between this game and the last one (Thursday’s 1-0 loss to Gloucester Catholic).
“We made a point this year that we want everybody to be involved in everything. It’s not just I have to go in this game and I have to score and I have to get this many goals; we just want to help each other. It showed a lot this game with so many different people scoring. This game, when we have all these different people scoring is more fun than just one or two people.”
CUMBERLAND 5, SALEM TECH 1: Alaina Miletta scored three goals assisted on two others, and the Colts pulled away from a 1-0 game with four goals in the second half. Jessilyn Chambers scored the Chargers’ goal in the fourth quarter.
Pennsville 6, Salem 1
| Pennsville (3-1) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1- | 6 |
| Salem (0-3) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0- | 1 |
SCORING SUMMARY
First quarter
P-Gracie Mease (Izzy Saulin), 12:18; S-Julliana Love (unassisted), 11:48; P-Gracie Mease (Izzy Saulin), 4:09
Second quarter
P-Kendall Hoyt (Gracie Mease), 10:26; P-Gracie Mease (Izzy Saulin), 9:09
Third quarter
P-Gina Haubrich (Izzy Saulin), 1:13
Fourth quarter
P-Izzy Saulin (Abby Bohn), 4:10
BOYS SOCCER
PAULSBORO 4, SALEM TECH 0: Matt Hill had a hat trick for the Red Raiders (2-2).
GIRLS SOCCER
CLAYTON 7, SALEM 0: Madi Traister had two goals and three assists for the Clippers (2-2). Deondria Simon also scored two goals.
TIMBER CREEK 2, SCHALICK 0: The Cougars outshot their visitors 20-5, but just couldn’t find the back of the goal.
GIRLS TENNIS
WOODSTOWN 5, OVERBROOK 0
Nathalie Neron (WO) def. Sophia Burgos, 6-0, 6-0
Alyssa Berry (WO) def. Natasha Hreiz, 6-0, 6-0
Noelle Neron (WO) def. Isabella Sepulveda, 6-0, 6-0
Madison LaPalomento-Emilee Kehr (WO) def. Anna Mason-Leah Wilde, 6-1, 6-0
Angelina Lindenmuth-Elianna Norman (WO) def. Charlotte Gall-Liana Grant-Williams, 6-2, 6-0
Records: Woodstown 4-2, Overbrook 1-6.
SCHALICK 5, PENNS GROVE 0
Miya Watkins (S) def. Andrea Restrepo, 6-0, 6-0
Annmarie Podehl (S) def. Alease Stewart, 6-0, 6-0
Macy Slow (S) def. Ada Lopez, 6-0, 6-0
Olivia Lunemann-Sebrina Bradford (S) def. Yanet Cruz-Nathalie Dominquez, 6-1, 6-0
Sammi Tigg-Jasmine Hunt (S) def. Valaria Pedroza-Andrea Chapone, 6-0, 6-0
Records: Schalick 3-1, Penns Grove 0-4.
Pitman at Pennsville
Salem at Glassboro
GIRLS VOLLEYBALL
GCIT 2, SALEM TECH 1: GCIT took the third set 25-7 to score its first win of the season. The games were 25-10, 19-25, 25-7.
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