SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
WYCHOCK BREAKS KING'S CAREER GOAL SCORING MARK
AS FIELD HOCKEY EDGES ELMIRA, 4-3
ELMIRA, NY --
Senior forward Debbie Wychock (Wilkes-Barre/Coughlin) broke the
school-record for career goals, scoring three times to power the King's
College field hockey team to a 4-3 victory over host Elmira College
Thursday in Elmira, NY.
With the win, King's improved to 7-0 on the year while Elmira slipped to
0-5.
Wychock entered the game with 59 career goals, trailing the now previous
mark of 61 goals set by Lindsay Sabo from 2002-through 2006. With King's
trailing 1-0, Wychock struck net at 22:26 off a cross from Amanda
Schwartztrauber to tie the score.
Lindsay O'Brien would give King's a 2-1 lead when she scored off a
penalty corner as Danielle Terracciano assisted on the play. After Kelly
Hadley of Elmira tied the score at 2-2 at the 42:32 mark, Wychock tied
the record with her second goal of the day just 5:08 later to give the
Lady Monarchs a 3-2 lead.
Wychock would then break the school record when she knocked in a feed
from Terracciano following a penalty corner at 60:31 to tally the 62nd
goal of her career.
Elmira would close out the scoring on a Sharon Johnson goal at 62:19.
Wychock has enjoyed a stellar senior year as she has scored an
astounding 44 points on 21 goals and two assists through just seven
games this season. She is on pace to shatter the single-season record of
25 goals she set along with Sabo in 2006, as well as King's
single-season points mark of 61 she set in 2006.
Wychock and her Lady Monarch teammates will face their stiffest
challenge of the year when unbeaten and 13th ranked Elizabethtown
College (6-0) invades Betzler Fields Saturday at 1:00 p.m.
