Husson defeated Goucher 4-1 on Saturday to capture the ECAC Field Hockey Championship.
Husson Wins ECAC Field Hockey Championship
BALTIMORE, Md. - Husson University claimed the 2025 ECAC DIII Field Hockey Championship on Saturday by defeating Goucher College 4-1 on the Gophers’ home field. The Eagles improved to 9-7 on the season and added the ECAC Championship to their Central Maine Collegiate Field Hockey Conference Championship, which they earned last weekend. Goucher dropped to 9-9.
The Gophers had the first scoring opportunities of the match. Neither team managed a shot or a corner for the first 3:05 of the match, then Goucher tallied six shots and two corners over the following 30 seconds. Husson freshman goalkeeper Ella Duchette was forced to make four saves amid Goucher’s offensive flurry, keeping the Gophers off the board.
The Eagles’ first shot resulted in their first goal. Senior Averi Baker secured her 10th tally of the season with just under three minutes to play in the opening quarter on a pass from Faith Tillotson, who redirected a Jazmin Johnson corner to Baker. Both Tillotson and Johnson were credited with assists, Tillotson’s seventh of the year and Johnson’s first. For Johnson, a junior, it was her first career point in her 38th match.
Twenty seconds later, Tillotson gave Husson a 2-0 advantage with her team-leading 11th goal of the season, breaking a tie with Baker and Maddie Perkins.
Husson had a chance to extend its lead about four minutes into the second quarter with three shots on goal within 11 seconds of each other, but Goucher goalkeeper Katie Bloom stopped all three to keep her team in the match. The two squads combined for just one shot on goal throughout the rest of the period. It came off of Perkins’ stick for the Eagles but Bloom responded with her fourth save of the quarter and the match. The Eagles went into halftime still holding their 2-0 lead.
Bloom was called upon to make saves number five and six within the first three minutes of the second half, both on shots by Husson’s Lauryn Brown. Bloom, who entered the match with a .778 save percentage, saw her efforts to keep her team alive rewarded 6:34 into the third quarter when Angelena Holmes got Goucher on the board off a corner. It was the junior defender’s first goal since 2023. Freshman Vivian Onunga notched her first career assist on the goal that brought the Gophers to within one.
Husson responded, however, when freshman defender Addie Twitchell scored her first career goal and picked up her first career points to give the Eagles a 3-1 lead. Baker and Perkins provided the assists. In the fourth quarter, the Eagles ballooned their lead to three when Tillotson tallied her second goal of the day, boosting her team-best total to 12 for the season. Perkins was credited with her second assist of the day, giving her a team-high 13 on the year and lifting the senior’s squad-pacing point total to 33.
Husson finished with 24 shots, 13 of which were on goal and 12 corners on its way to the school’s first ECAC Field Hockey Championship. Goucher managed 10 shots, put five on goal and had four corners.