WESTFIELD, Mass. – The Westfield State field hockey wrapped up the 2021 regular season after falling to Keene State 3-1 in a Little East Conference game from Keene, N.H. on Saturday afternoon. With the loss, the Owls clinch the seventh overall seed in the LEC tournament, dropping to 7-5 in conference play and 10-8 overall. Keene State improves to 9-3 in the LEC and 10-9 on the season.

Keene leaped out to an early two-goal lead with Demetria Gonzalez (Merrimack, N.H.) and Chase Lambert (West Suffield, Conn.) registering goals at 4:05 and 10:42 of the first quarter to put Keene State up 2-0. Lambert also collected an assist on the Gonzalez tally.

Westfield attempted to climb back into the game as Sarah Richard (Templeton, Mass.) collected a feed from Taylor Creech (Kennebunk, Maine) for her second goal in as many games to cut the deficit in half. However, Keene would answer at the 24^th minute of action with Maggie Cahoon (Keene, N.H.) recording her fifth goal of the year on an assist from Paula Vasiliadis (Concord, Mass.) to regain their two-goal advantage.

Both teams were held scoreless in the second half with Westfield failing to record a shot in the final two quarters. Keene outshot Westfield 13-2 including shots on goal (9-2). Keene attempted ten penalty corners to Westfield's three.

Junior Paige Reisman (Milford, Mass.) took the loss for Westfield after generating six saves.

Westfield State will enter the LEC tournament, beginning this upcoming Tuesday as the Owls will travel to second-seeded Worcester State for a first round match-up with a time still to be determined.