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Field Hockey Heads to App State for Regular Season Finale
10/30/2025 10:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
The Kent State field hockey team wraps up the 2025 regular season on Friday afternoon as the team heads to Boone, North Carolina, to take on App State. The game is set to begin at 3 p.m., with major MAC Tournament implications on the line.
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About the Flashes
Sunday's game against James Madison was the Golden Flashes' fifth overtime contest of the season. With the heartbreaking 3-2 defeat to the Dukes, Kent State falls to 2-3 in overtime games this season. The loss also brings the Flashes to 3-5 in conference play with one game remaining in the regular season, a long road trip to App State.
With one game left in the conference season, Kent State is very much alive and on the bubble in the race to clinch a MAC Tournament berth. As it currently stands, the Flashes are in sixth place in the conference standings, with the top six teams earning a spot in the tournament. A win over App State would almost certainly clinch a berth for Kent State, barring an improbable pair of results in other contests around the league. A loss on Friday to the Mountaineers would make it so the Flashes need significant help from other results in the MAC to secure a spot in the conference tournament.
A familiar face was on the score sheet for Kent State in last Sunday's game against James Madison. Maybritt Duwel scored the Flashes' opening goal for her team-high seventh goal of the season. Freshman Roos ten Pas tallied the first point and assist of her collegiate career on the goal. Duwel stayed involved in the action, assisting a game-tying goal by Delfina Larripa late in the fourth quarter. For Larripa, it was a signature moment on Senior Day as her miraculous goal forced overtime against the visiting Dukes.
Kent State can have confidence that the team will perform well App State this weekend based on past road performances this season. The Golden Flashes have won three consecutive road games, all of which have been against MAC opponents. Kent State's last loss on the road came on Sunday, September 21, at UMass Lowell, a 3-2 overtime defeat. With wins over Ball State, Bellarmine, and Central Michigan on the road this season, the Flashes will be hoping to ride momentum into Friday's tilt at App State.
Scouting App State
The Mountaineers enter Friday's game with a strong 12-5 overall record and 6-2 clip in conference play. This past weekend, App State notched a 3-1 win at Ball State before heading to No. 6 Wake Forest on Sunday, a 3-0 defeat. The Mountaineers' only two defeats in conference play this season have come to UMass and Miami, the two teams currently ahead of them in the conference standings. With an average of over three goals per game, App State has used a strong effort to earn an impressive record thus far in 2025. The Mountaineers are led by the conference leader in points and assists: Lise Boekaar. The senior midfielder has tallied 12 goals and 19 assists this season, also tying for the team lead in goals. Junior midfielder Sophia Baxter has also notched 12 goals in 2025.
Kent State leads the all-time series against App State 12-3. The Flashes won all three meetings between the teams before the Mountaineers joined the conference as an affiliate member in 2017, with Kent State also winning the first eight matchups between the schools as conference opponents. Since that dominant run, App State has won three of the last four meetings, including a 1-0 win over the Flashes last season in Kent. The last Kent State victory in the series came in the 2023 MAC Tournament, when the Flashes defeated App State 3-2 in Oxford, Ohio.
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