<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3Cqrh4_0wF1Ofw500" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3Cqrh4_0wF1Ofw500" width="800" height="450" >MERION STATION, Pa. – Manu Ghigliotti tallied the third hat trick of her collegiate career on Sunday as the sixth-ranked Saint Joseph's field hockey team blanked Drexel, 4-0, at Ellen Ryan Field.HOW IT HAPPENED• Saint Joseph's (13-2) turned its early possession into an opening goal midway through the first quarter. Alison Buffington forced a turnover just outside the circle and fed Ghigliotti in front of the cage for a 1-0 lead.• Ghigliotti's second of the day was a long-distance rocket; after receiving the ball on a restart, she spun to her right to avoid a pair of defenders before firing high into the cage to double the lead just 90 seconds before halftime.• A clever passing sequence down the left wing set up the third goal of the day. Sol Borensztein got things started with a give-and-go with Celeste Smits; Borensztein then flipped a pass up to Ghigliotti to carry into the circle. She then initiated her own give-and-go with Smits before shooting high over Drexel's Alana Poole for a 3-0 lead early in the third quarter.• Buffington finished off the scoring with less than three minutes remaining in the fourth as Julia Duffhuis sent a heatseeker into the circle from just inside midfield that Buffington directed into the cage.BEHIND THE BOX SCORE• The Hawks held Drexel (11-4) to one shot on the day, which came on a penalty corner in the second quarter and was blocked. SJU ripped off 14 shots, putting 10 of them on target.• After outshooting Richmond and Drexel by a combined 36-1 margin over the last two games, the Hawks have held their opposition without a shot on goal since early in the fourth quarter at Virginia on October 13, a span that stretches more than 131 minutes.• Poole made six saves, while Marith Bijkerk was not forced into action.• Ghigliotti's hat trick is the third of her career and her eighth multi-goal game in a Hawk uniform.• Elsewhere in the Atlantic 10, Davidson defeated La Salle, 2-0; that result clinches an Atlantic 10 Championship berth for the Hawks. Saint Joseph's will host the Championship on November 7 and 9 at Ellen Ryan Field.The Hawks head west for a conference game at Saint Louis on Friday.</div></body>

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MERION STATION, Pa. – Manu Ghigliotti tallied the third hat trick of her collegiate career on Sunday as the sixth-ranked Saint Joseph's field hockey team blanked Drexel, 4-0, at Ellen Ryan Field. HOW IT HAPPENED. • Saint Joseph's (13-2) turned its early possession into an opening goal midway through...