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SPORTS Thursday, September 21, 2000 - Page 11 Men's soccer.battle nationally ranked 'foes StaffWrifer Western Maryland College's field hockey team finished up its 1999 season with five victories. After the first five games of its 2000 season, the team is only two wins shy of that same mark. This season was the debut of second year coach..' Mindy Manolovich's recruitment efforts, which thus far have proven !O be remarkable. Manolovich did lose seven pay- ers from the 1999 season to gradu- WMC~ len Flannery dribbles between rwoSalem players ation, but also lost four potential returnees who decided not to play this year. One of those was goal- keeper Kate Boyle. This forced Manolovich to put a freshman goalie in the cage. However, Becky Arnold has faced the challenge with grace by giving up only five goals on 82 shots with 34 saves. Arnold was aware that a fresh- man would be starting in goal but felt prepared because, "coaches have given me a lot of one on one attention. They have pointed out what my weaknesses are and what I need to work on," Arnold says. One thing Arnold spent a lot of time working on was defending the one verse one attack. The practice effort paid off. rh the Terror's second gililiirDf the season against Frostburg State, for the first time in Arnold's career, she participated in a stroke off. It is NCA-A regulation that games that end in a tie after-two thirty-five minute regulations and two fifteen minute seven versus seven sudden death overtime peri- ods that a stoke off competition is instituted in which one player takes a shot on goal 6.4 meters out from the goal line. In Arnold's first ever stroke off only one goal was allowed result- ing in the Terror victory. Arnold admits that the stroke off "happened so fast that I don't remember it." All over the field, throughout . each game first-year players have left their mark. Freshmen Kristin Talarovich and Tara Morris displayed their tal- ent by each pounding hatricks in an 18 - 0 rout over Salem College of North Carolina in Lynchburg, Virginia. That victory smashed the old Western Maryland record for most goals in a game, which was set in 1952 with nine goals and tied in 1972 and again in 1996. That victory was one day before a 3 - 1 victory over Manolovich's alma matter, Lynchburg, in which freshman Susan Rohrer slammed in the third goal with 21:0 I remain- Saturday, September 23 ing in the game to seal the victory. vs. Rutgers-Camden Rohrer is a quiet presence on the field, but her presence on the Saturday, September 30 scored has been noticed. Vs. Franklin & In addition to her goal in the Marshall Lynchburg game, she has twice Thursday, September 21 ***All games are home un- scored against Salem, and scored less otherwise stated.