WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.—The Lycoming College field hockey team fell 3-1 against Wilkes University in their final game of the regular season on Wednesday, Oct. 29 at UPMC Field, but the Warriors nonetheless punched their first-ever trip to the Landmark Conference Championship.

In the fourth season since re-launching the program, Lycoming (10-7, 4-5) finished with a school record number of wins and conference wins and finished with their first winning season in over four decades. The Warriors will be the No. 6 seed in the conference tournament, with a first-round matchup at No. 3 Elizabethtown set for Saturday in Elizabethtown, Pa., at 6 p.m. Wilkes (9-10, 4-5) also qualified for the conference tournament with the win as the No. 5 seed and will head to Drew for a first-round game Saturday.

Wilkes struck in the first quarter, as Maddie Karp scored an unassisted goal just over six minutes into the contest, giving the Colonels a 1-0 lead that persisted into halftime.

The Warriors tallied three shots in the third quarter without allowing Wilkes to get off a shot.

With a little over six minutes left in the fourth quarter, Emma Lautenbacher took a carom from a blocked shot and put into the cage for the Colonels' second score. Four minutes later, Karp scored her second goal of the game off a pass from Elizabeth Hodder on the left side for a three-goal lead.

The Warriors scored when junior Carmen Hannon (Aldie, Va. / John Champe) found the right side of the cage off a pass from sophomore Lacy Eckard (Muncy, Pa. / Muncy), with Hannon scoring her third goal of the year. 

Senior keeper Isabella Bobé (York Springs, Pa. / Bermudian Springs) tallied nine saves in the contest for the Warriors.