SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The No. 2 Shippensburg University field hockey team surged to a season-high seven goals Saturday in a convincing victory over Slippery Rock, 7-1, in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) bout at a wet and rainy Robb Sports Complex.
 
Shippensburg (11-2, 5-0 PSAC) got a career-best four goals from junior Tess Jedeloo and two goals from sophomore Agus Garibaldi in the victory. It is the first four-goal game by a Raider in nearly two years.
 
Slippery Rock (2-10, 0-5) recorded a consolation goal late in the fourth quarter courtesy of Samantha Karmonick, marking the first fourth-quarter goal allowed by the Raiders this season. The Rock goalkeeper Grace Burker faced a total of 20 shots (14 on goal) and was credited with seven saves.
 
The goal-scoring barrage came following a scoreless first 15 minutes. Once the Raiders adjusted to the poor conditions, they spent much of the remaining three quarters deep in the attacking zone.
 
SU opened the scoring just moments after the start of the second quarter. Jedeloo split a pair of Slippery Rock defenders before sending a cross into the circle. Garibaldi beat a defender to the ball and delivered a reverse hit to the bottom right corner of the cage for a goal.
 
Jedeloo scored the first of her four tallies on a lightning quick SU counterattack of a feed from sophomore Lilly Cantabene a few minutes later.
 
Garibaldi made it a three-goal second quarter, hammering home a penalty corner insert from freshman Hannah White.
 
Jedeloo added a pair of tallies in the third quarter, the second a vicious reverse hit off a long feed from Cantabene.
 
In the fourth quarter, Garibaldi took the ball off the stick of a Rock defender in front of the goal and dished it to Jedeloo for her fourth. Freshman Mckenna Boyle later buried a fourth-quarter penalty stroke to wrap up the Raider scoring.
 
Jedeloo finished the game with a new career-best nine points.
 
Junior Lindsay Tripodo got the start in the cage for the Raiders and recorded three saves in 45 minutes of action.
 
The win sets the stage for a crucial mid-week road contest at No. 1-ranked East Stroudsburg at 2 p.m. Wednesday.