Kent State Rising Up MAC Standings After Victory over Longwood

Friday, October 16

Farmville, Va.

3:00 p.m.

Kent State University

(4-10,3-3MAC)

Longwood

(0-12,0-6MAC)

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
Kent State	2	0	0	2	4
Longwood	1	0	0	0	1

Addie Gagnon slapshotting a penalty corner opportunity

Photo by: Milan McMichael

Kent State Rising Up MAC Standings After Victory over Longwood

10/16/2026 5:49:00 PM | Field Hockey

Box Score

FARMVILLE, Va. – The Kent State Field Hockey team beat the Longwood Lancers 4-1 in Farmville, Va. on Friday afternoon for their first road victory of the season.

The win has evened up the Golden Flashes' conference record at 3-3. Since Kent State's loss a few weeks ago against Bellarmine was in overtime, the team's point total is at an even 10. The double-digit points total places Kent State alone in 4^th place at this time in the season. Elsewhere in the MAC, Ohio got shutout 0-6 against James Madison on Friday, bringing the future Kent State opponent slightly below the Golden Flashes in the standings. Kent State plays Ohio in the final regular season game of the year on Friday, Oct. 30.

The four goals scored by Kent State ties a season-high that the squad set last week in their 4-1 win over Ball State. Similarly to the Ball State win, Kent State had four different goal scorers in the victory over Longwood on Friday.

Ryli Zee was the first person to get Kent State on the board. The sophomore back has rightfully been getting a lot of attention for her defense this season as she leads the NCAA Division I in defensive saves. However, just 48 seconds into the game, Zee deflected a pass from Maybritt Duwel into the back of the net for her first collegiate career goal. Duwel's pass gives her two assists on the year.

Torie Del Collo fired off her second goal of the season just five minutes after Zee scored, making it quickly 2-0 in favor of the Golden Flashes. Eva Usoz was credited with the assist, giving her two assists on the year and a team-leading 18 points.

With the first quarter winding down, Longwood snuck a goal behind the left side of Michaela Skinner. Skylar Freistat was credited with her first collegiate career goal for the Lancers.

The score remained a 2-1 Kent State advantage through the second and third quarters as Longwood goalkeeper Sophie Mooldijk was dominant in the net in the middle of the game. Kent State consistently had penalty corner opportunities and Mooldijk kept turning the Golden Flashes away. In fact, Kent State had a season-high 15 penalty corner attempts in the game.

Mooldijk is far and away the saves leader in the MAC and has been a bright light for Longwood in an otherwise disappointing season for the Lancers. Mooldijk tallied a career-high 25 saves in the loss to Kent State, which ties Merrimack's Audra Szymborski for the most saves in a single game this season in D1 field hockey.

The Golden Flashes broke the game open a minute into the fourth quarter when Eva Usoz weaved through defenders for her eighth goal of the season. Usoz also posted career-highs in shots (12) and shots on goal (9) in the victory, tallying more of each stat than Longwood's offense combined. As of 6pm on Friday evening, Usoz has skyrocketed up to second place in shots and shots on goal in the MAC stat leaderboard.

Sophomore forward Addie Gagnon scored the Golden Flashes' fourth goal of the game a few minutes after Usoz's to secure the win for Kent State. The goal was set up by a sharp assist from Emily Robertson diagonally across the pitch.

Up Next

The Golden Flashes will take on App State at home on Sunday, Oct. 18 at noon for possibly the most important game of the year thus far. The MAC standings are severely close and Kent State and App State will be both be fighting for MAC Tournament spots. The first 100 fans at the game will get a free "Everyone watches Kent State women's sports" t-shirt.

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