{"id":1279,"date":"2000-11-10T10:24:54","date_gmt":"2000-11-10T16:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2000\/11\/10\/john-abbott-rallies-for-2-2-tie-with-vermont\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:54:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:54:26","slug":"john-abbott-rallies-for-2-2-tie-with-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/2000\/11\/10\/john-abbott-rallies-for-2-2-tie-with-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"John Abbott Rallies For 2-2 Tie With Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Abbott scored unanswered goals in the second and third periods to earn a 2-2 tie with host Vermont in an exhibition game Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Catamounts jumped out to a 2-0 lead behind goals from newcomers Whitney Gage and Lindsey Neilson. <\/p>\n<p>Gage, the 2000 America East Rookie of the Year in field hockey, roofed a shot past Lady Islanders&#8217; goalie Jessica Anderson with just four seconds left in the first period.  Neilson followed with a nifty one-timer at the 15:54 mark of the second period. <\/p>\n<p>However, the Cats couldn&#8217;t hang onto the lead. Valerie Bazinet scored at 17:16 of the second period to get the Islanders back within one (2-1) as the teams headed into the second intermission. <\/p>\n<p>Lindsay McCusky slipped one past Vermont goalie Tiffany Hayes at the 7:38 mark of the third to knot the game up 2-2 and force overtime. <\/p>\n<p>John Abbott continued to pepper shots at Hayes in the extra session, but couldn&#8217;t get the winning goal. <\/p>\n<p>Hayes finished the night with 34 saves, while Anderson and Chrissie Annett combined for 23 saves in net for John Abbott. <\/p>\n<p>Vermont travels to John Abbott for a 5:00 p.m. game Saturday in the Catamounts&#8217; final tune-up for the regular season.  UVM opens the regular season on Saturday, November 18 versus Amherst at 2:00 p.m. at Gutterson Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Abbott scored unanswered goals in the second and third periods to earn a 2-2 tie with host Vermont in an exhibition game Friday night. The Catamounts jumped out to a 2-0 lead behind goals from newcomers Whitney Gage and Lindsey Neilson. Gage, the 2000 America East Rookie of the Year in field hockey, roofed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}