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College Field Hockey
SUNDAY CHANGE
 LOCK HAVEN AT RIDER NOW 2:30PM AT PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL
Final Regular Season Game Sunday
Broncs Battle for NEC Regular Season Title

LAWRENCEVILLE--It has all come down to this, winner take all.  The Rider University field hockey team and the Bronc events staff and ground crew are working hard to make sure that the winner isn't mother nature.

With the Rider field saturated, the game has been moved to Princeton Day School at 2:30PM.  Senior day festivities are scheduled to begin just prior to the game.

With a 5-0 win over Northeast Conference rival Siena, the Broncs have a chance to win the 2009 NEC Regular Season Title and clinch home field for the four-team conference playoffs November 6-7.

This is the 10th straight season that Rider (16-1, 7-0 NEC) has made the NEC playoffs and the Broncs have advanced to the NEC Title Game in eight of the past nine seasons, winning the championship in 2000, 2002 and 2004.

Rider was the NEC regular season champion in 2001, 2003 and 2005.

Rider is undefeated in six 'home' games this season with one game scheduled at Princeton Day School and two games moved due to rain, played at Mercer County Community College and Stuart Day School.

The Broncs are led by sophomore Megan Pisani (Plainsboro/West Windsor-Plainsboro North) who is second in the conference in scoring with 44 points (20 goals, 4 assists) and sophomore Virginia Egusquiza (Getxo, Spain) who leads the conference (and ranks eighth nationally) with 17 assists.  Egusquiza recently set the Rider individual season assist record and notched a goal and three assists on Friday against the Saints.

Senior goalie Lyndsie Johnson (Gibbsboro/Eastern) is third in the country in goals against average (0.64) and recently set the Rider single season record with her ninth shutout.

Also leading the charge for the Broncs is freshman Marlaine Schneider (Feasterville, Pa./Neshaminy) who has six goals and six assists.  Schneider has been honored five times by the NEC as Rookie of the Week.  Overall, a Rider player has received either Player or Rookie honors from the NEC all nine weeks of the 2009 season.

Lock Haven enters the game on a 13-game winning streak after starting the season 3-3 and the Lady Eagles have won 31 straight NEC regular season games.

Lock Haven defeated Rider 3-0 in the NEC Title Game in 2008.

Prior to the 2:30PM start, Rider will honor its four graduating seniors, Brittany Baxter (Stroudsburg, Pa./Stroudsburg), Kelly Crist (Belford/Middletown North), Lyndsie Johnson (Gibbsboro/Eastern) and Erin McGinniss (Newton/Kittatinny Regional).

LiveStats will be available by clicking on the field hockey schedule at www.gobroncs.com.

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