Center Valley, PA (September 8, 2012) – Two more goals by sophomore Alyssa Malatesta and a strong effort by the Bulldogs offense saw the DeSales University field hockey team blitz Ramapo College, 5-1, in non-conference action on a windy and eventually stormy Saturday afternoon.

The game was pushed up nearly an hour as the two teams took an abbreviated warm-up attempting to beat an approaching storm that ended up hitting the Center Valley campus just under ½ hour after the game ended and knocked power out to most of the surrounding area.

Prior to that though DeSales continued to light up the scoreboard with five more goals, giving the Bulldogs 11 goals through three games and just two goals shy of their entire total for the 2011 season.

Freshman Meryah Harding opened the scoring with the only goal of the first half, taking a pass from junior Jen Burley off a penalty corner and firing a shot past the keeper into the left corner of the goal cage.  It was Harding's second goal of the season and Burley's first career point.

Freshman Alessandra Farnesi made it a 2-0 game at the 39:08 mark with the first tally of her career, scoring off a rebound of a blocked shot and sophomore Alyssa Malatesta scored the first of two just 1:08 later, dribbling around the keeper and scoring on a reverse stick just in front of the goal mouth.

Ramapo got on the board next, scoring at 46:37, but the Bulldogs offense never let up adding its fourth goal at the 56:18 mark as Alyssa Malatesta re-directed a corner shot from junior Sam Szathmary and freshman Jesse Marshall got into the act, scoring her first career marker, rebounding her own shot and putting it in with 4:02 left to play.

Senior Victoria DelToro made two saves and freshman Becky Rasmuson made one save in her first action in between the pipes.  DSU out-shot Ramapo, 29-6, and held a 15-4 edge in penalty corners for the game.

The Bulldogs get right back to action tomorrow when they take to the road for the first time all season, traveling to Gwynedd-Mercy College for a non-conference game beginning at 3:30 pm.