Newberry, S.C. - The Newberry Field Hockey team has been on the bad end of some heart-wrenching losses this season but Wednesday night it was the Wolves' time to shine under the lights. Lily Drury got her stick on the end of a Caitlin Wassermann lob from outside of the shooting circle and the Wolves found themselves celebrating the win in the flashing lights of Setzler Field.

In the early stages of the first quarter, it seemed that the Scarlet and Gray would run away with the game. Just over three minutes into the game, Yasmin De Meyer would put Newberry on the board with her fourth goal of the season. Just over a minute later, it was Michaella Pirozzi's turn as Hailey Moore set up Pirozzi's first goal of the season. That was also Moore's first assist of the season as well. After a blistering first 5 minutes of play, it was all Wolves. However, Queens would get one back at the 6:35 mark as Victoria Tredinnick would put one past Grace Lee and suddenly the Wolves lead was cut in half. The rest of the half breezed by with very few stoppages of play and Newberry went into the break with a 2-1 lead.

Queens would continue to battle and a scrum within the shooting circle would lead to a Royals penalty stroke which Tredinnick converted for both her's and Queens' second goal of the game and the score was all knotted up at two and that is how we headed to the last 15 minutes of action with both teams looking for that game-winning goal.

This time, it was Newberry's turn to break some hearts as Caitlin Wassermann lobbed a ball up in the air that Lily Drury wisely got her stick up to tap it into the back of the net and Newberry found themselves up 3-2 with just under ten minutes to play. From there, the Wolves' defense would clamp down and not allow Queens to shoot the ball once to try to equalize and as the clock ticked down, Newberry earned a hard fought first conference victory and a positive start to this three-match homestand. 

The Scarlet and Gray will continue their homestand on Saturday afternoon as they continue their SACC slate against Converse at 2 PM. The finale of the homestand will be next Tuesday, October 5th as they face Belmont Abbey.