Bishop Scores Eight as Saline Defeats Harrison, 15-9

Chelsey Bishop scored eight goals to lead Saline to a 15-9 victory over Farmington North Harrison at Crabtree Field Friday. 

The Hornets improved to 7-6.

Eryn Healy scored two goals and added a pair of assists for the Hornets. Amelia Waters tallied twice and had a helper. Jessica Opaleski scored and assisted once. Alison Rentschler and Lauren Diroff also scored and Briana Martin had an assist.

Abby Davis scored four goals and Peggy Phelan scored three times to lead North Harrison, which also got goals from Emily Wilcox and Cassie Callahan.

Despite the win, coach Deb Eilliot wasn't thrilled with the Hornets' performance.

"I thought we were sloppy and lacked focus. I think we were a little distracted by the Senior Night celebration."" Elliot said. "This wasn't the team we saw earlier this week."

Saline won the battle of the ground balls, 50-47. Ashton Cole made several big saves in goal when the game was close in the first half. Allison Broucek played goal in the second half and, for the most part, shut down Harrison until the game's final moments.

Saline opened the scoring with a goal from Healy, who was in good shooting position after a penalty. A couple minutes later, the Hornets made it 2-0 when Bishop won a loose ball and sprinted into scoring position. She was fouled and then scored from 10 feet out. Saline took a 3-0 lead when Bishop scored one of her patented wraparound goals.

Harrison got on the board with a goal by Davis from eight feet. After Bishop and Davis traded goals again, Saline led 4-2. Saline goalie Ashton Cole made three big saves on Davis and Phelan during a Harrison frenzy. Harrison got to within a goal with 8:13 to play in the half when Wilcox scored from 12 feet out.

The score remained 4-3 until Healy scored with 5:02 left in the half. With the score still close, Cole robbed Wilcox again at the 2:19 mark. Seconds later Lauren Diroff spotted Bishop with a pass. Bishop sprinted half the length of the field and ripped a shot home for a 6-3 lead. Amelia Waters made it 7-3 just 18 seconds later with a bounce shot that gave Saline breathing room at halftime.

The Hornets put the game away with three goals in four minutes to start the second half. First, Bishop scored on a wraparound after getting a pass from Opaleski. Then Bishop scored on a sprint down the left wing after getting a pass from Healy. Opaleski made it 10-3 with a goal from about 15-feet out.

Davis interrupted Saline's eruption with a goal with 18:40 to play. Unfazed, the Hornets scored the next three goals, getting tallies from Rentschler, Waters and then Diroff, who was set up by Waters on a pretty passing play.

Davis broke up the Saline run again, this time arcing from the corner to the middle of the field and firing a shot past Allison Broucek to make it 13-5.

Bishop sandwiched her seventh and eighth goals of the contest around a marker from Harrison's Wilcox. Harrison closed out the game with two goals from Phelan and a goal by Callahan.