HAVERFORD, Pa. - The Haverford College field hockey team improved its record to 6-0 on the season with a 4-1 win over visiting Elizabethtown (2-3) at Swan Field on Wednesday afternoon. The 6-0 start is the longest winning streak to begin a season in program history. Ravenel Davis, the reigning Centennial Conference Offensive Player of the Week, followed up that honor by adding three more goals to her already impressive total, including the game-winning strike in just the seventh minute of action.
Davis now leads the Centennial with 10 goals and has doubled the amount of tallies of the second-place scorer in the conference. The Richmond, Va. product also already has recorded the most goals in a single-season for the Fords since current assistant coach Elena Veale finished with 13 during the 2015-16 campaign. In another all-around performance at home, the offense fired 30 shots and earned 16 corners. The Fords yet again stifled the opposition defensively, allowing just five shots and three penalty corners as the Blue Jays had limited opportunities to enter the attacking third.
Notching her fifth game-winning goal of the season, a mark that has already tied a program record, Davis opened the scoring in the seventh minute as she sent a shot that trickled into the cage and past goalkeeper Angelina Giglio-Tos of the Blue Jays. Just over six minutes later, Davis took an assist from Olivia Ahart and hammered home a goal to bring the score to 2-0 in favor of the hosts.
After the halftime break, Davis tapped in her third, ensuring the hat trick by poking in a deflection after a scrum in front of the cage. Anna Kirn collected the ball in front of the goal mouth and found Davis with a short pass through traffic, allowing Davis to slot a shot home for her 10th of the season.
Kirn found the back of the cage herself in the 50th minute, giving Haverford the 4-0 lead off a nice centering cross from Dalia Bercow down low. Grace Hardy scored for Elizabethtown in the 53rd minute, putting the visitors on the scoreboard on just their fourth shot of the contest.
The meeting was Haverford's first against Elizabethtown since the 1996 season as the two sides rekindled a series that dates back to 1985.
The Fords will next face a tough test at home on Saturday, welcoming in No. 8 Rowan for a 1 p.m. first pass at Swan Field on Saturday. During the 2019 season, the Fords played then-No. 2 Rowan tough in a narrow 1-0 loss in Glassboro, receiving votes in the national polls following the result.