UTICA, NY- The Utica College field hockey team had its bid for an E8 title come up short as it fell to visiting Nazareth College 5-2 in the Empire 8 Conference first round Wednesday evening.
 
Despite Utica getting the early chances, it was Nazareth that struck first at 10:56 into play as Emma Rosenberg netted her first of four on the day.  Rosenberg and Caroline Desautels went down on a two-on-one.  Desautels played the ball over to Rosenberg who shot between the legs of Utica netminder Megan Chamberlain (Queensbury, NY/Queensbury) for the go-ahead goal.
 
The Golden Flyers tacked on another tally exactly six minutes later as Desautels scored one of her own.  Desautels sent a feed across the front of the cage that deflected off a Utica defender and dribbled across the goal line to put the visitors up 2-0.
 
Rosenberg and Desautels connected again at 21:01 to give Naz a 3-0 lead.
 
Utica was able to get one back at 22:17 as Madeline Krecidlo (Whitesboro, NY/Whitesboro) buried her second of the year.  Off a penalty corner, Jselyn Files' shot bounced around in front before Krecidlo was able to bang it home.  Jacqueline Povall (Pine Plains, NY/Stissing Mountain) was credited with an assist on the play.
 
Rosenberg extended the Naz lead to 4-1 just 6:18 into the second half with her third of the day.  Utica once again got one back as senior Sabrina Whitehouse (Greenwich, NY/Greenwich) put in her second of the season off an assist from Shannon Jedreicich (Deer Park, NY/Half Hollow Hills East).  Jedreicich fired a long ball from outside the arc, that Whitehouse got a stick on to tip passed the Nazareth goalie.  With the goal, Whitehouse moves into sole possession of 10^th place on the College's career goal scoring list with 21 goals to her credit.
 
Naz added a final tally with 4:31 remaining to seal the victory.
 
Chamberlain finished with four saves on the day, while Amanda Chuttey made seven in the win.