Athletics
Field hockey celebrates their Landmark Conference title.
OPPOSITE: Women’s soccer celebrates their win over Moravian.
Field Hockey, Women’s Soccer Landmark Conference Titles Headline Successful Fall Season In a fall that saw each eligible University of Scranton athletic team qualify for the Landmark Conference playoffs, the performances by the field hockey and women’s soccer teams headlined another successful opening stanza to the 2019-20 academic year for the Department of Athletics. First, the Royals field hockey team did something that, as a program, they had never done: win the Landmark Conference. Entering postseason play with an 11-7 overall mark and the top seed in the field, the Royals blitzed past Elizabethtown and Susquehanna to win their first Landmark title in program history. With the win, the Royals also nabbed a spot into the NCAA Division III Tournament field for the first time since 1997. The selection was also historic in another way, as the Royals hosted MIT at Weiss Field on Nov. 13, marking the very first 20
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NCAA Postseason event hosted by the University at the Quinn Athletics Campus. Despite falling in the match, 3-0, the 2019 Royals field hockey team left their mark. In end-of-the-year awards, the field hockey team had five student-athletes named to All-Landmark Conference teams, as head coach Colleen Moyer was named the conference’s Coach of the Year, as well. Not to be outdone was the performance the women’s soccer team put together over the final month of the season. Entering the Landmark Conference playoffs as the number three seed, women’s soccer went on the road and avenged regular season defeats to Elizabethtown and Susquehanna to capture their third Landmark title in four years and the seventh in program history.
