THE BASICS:
 
- Score: No. 23 MIT 2, No. 11 Amherst College 1
 
- Records: No. 23 MIT (4-3); No. 11 Amherst (2-3)
 
- Location: Amherst, Mass. (Hill Field)
 
- The Lead: MIT graduate student Paige Forester (Glencoe, Ill.) hit a deflected ball while it was in midair and sent it over Amherst College goalie Sara Nidus into the top left corner of the cage with 2.1 seconds left to play, lifting the No. 23 Engineers to a 2-1 victory over the No. 11 Mammoths in a non-conference field hockey game on Wednesday.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
- MIT got on the scoreboard first with 3:28 left in the first quarter. On a penalty corner, first year Ingrid Tomovski (Bosch en Duin, Netherlands) sent a feed from junior Alice Zehner (Gladwyne, Pa.) to the inside of the left post. Amherst replied with Sam Maynard tallying the equalizer almost 90 seconds later.
 
- The Mammoths had the upper hand in the second stanza as they generated eight shots, seven of which were stopped by first goalie Maeve Zimmer (Rockville, Md.), and two penalty corners.
 
- Amherst was awarded a pair of penalty corners during the first 37 seconds of the third quarter but it could not produce a shot. The Engineers threatened to register the go-ahead goal in the 41^st minute when they received two penalty corners, however, shots by sophomore Bailey McIntyre (Concord, Mass.) and junior Ashley Lederman (Villanova, Pa.) were saved.
 
- After holding the Mammoths without a shot for 20 minutes, Maynard sent a blast directly at Zimmer which she turned away. The hosts earned a penalty corner with just under nine minutes remaining, but MIT's defense did not surrender a shot. Junior Eva Oppenheim (Tiburon, Calif.) put a shot on goal in the 53^rd minute, however, it was blocked by a defender. The game became a back-and-forth affair until the final seconds when Tomovski sent a pass into the arc which deflected off an Amherst stick and was hit in by Forester.
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
 
- Zimmer amassed 11 saves while Nidus made two stops.
 
- Amherst led the way in shots (14-7), shots on goal (12-4), and penalty corners (7-4).
 
- In a series that began in 1995, this was the first time in 15 meetings that the Engineers have defeated the Mammoths.
 
UP NEXT:
 
- MIT resumes NEWMAC play on Saturday, Sept. 23 when it visits Springfield College for a 12:00 p.m. game.
 
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