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Game Recap: Field Hockey | | Will DeBoer

No. 3 Field Hockey rolls Stockton in season opener

McDorman nets first career hat trick; Sea Gulls cruise 5-2

SALISBURY, Md. – The third-ranked Salisbury University field hockey team opened the 2025 slate with a convincing 5-2 victory over the Stockton Ospreys on Sunday afternoon at Sea Gull Stadium.
 
After a barrage of first-quarter attempts, the Sea Gulls broke through off a penalty corner in the eighth minute. Madelyn Reed picked up a rebound off a shot and fed McKenna Horner to the left of the cage, and Horner arced a backhand over the goalie and into the top corner to make it 1-0.
 
Salisbury kept the pressure up in the second quarter as Morgan Bradford took a 20th-minute deflection and rocketed one top-shelf to double the Sea Gull advantage. Stockton got one back two minutes later as Maura Somers found Carlee Thompson off a penalty corner, but five minutes after that Marli McDorman worked her way into the arc and weaved through traffic, beating the keeper to send the home side into the half up 3-1.
 
McDorman continued feasting on the Ospreys in the third quarter, netting her second and third goals of the game in a two-minute span to boost the lead to 5-1. Leah Bruchansky scratched one back for Stockton late in the period, but the Sea Gulls cruised through the fourth quarter to salt away a 5-2 margin.
 
GAME NOTES
  • Marli McDorman registered her first career hat trick, scoring three goals on five shots. It was McDorman's fourth career multi-goal game and first since a two-goal effort on Nov. 1, 2023, against Mary Washington.
  • Delmar High School product Morgan Bradford found the back of the cage in her Sea Gull debut, while McKenna Horner scored in her first action since Oct. 16, 2024.
  • Madelyn Reed, Alex Kupper, and Parkside graduate Caroline Pusey each contributed an assist.
  • Kelly Davis played all 60 minutes in the cage for her first Sea Gull win. The Delmar grad recorded a pair of saves.
  • Salisbury outshot the Ospreys 25-3 and won the penalty corner battle 6-4.
 
The Sea Gulls will hit the road for their next three contests, starting with a trip up the Delmarva Peninsula to visit Washington College on Wednesday. Opening pushback from Chestertown, Md., is set for 7 p.m.
 
Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with affiliate membership in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (football, men's & women's swimming), Coastal Lacrosse Conference (men's lacrosse), State University of New York Athletic Conference (field hockey), and Colonial Women's Golf Conference (women's golf). With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the nation's most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, featuring dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on and off the field. The Sea Gulls have won a combined 23 team national championships, 24 individual national championships, and 205 conference championships, and have produced 53 Academic All-Americans.

To Make Tomorrow Yours at Salisbury University, and learn more about Sea Gull Athletics' tradition of excellence, visit SUSeaGulls.com or follow on social media @SUSeaGulls.
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