The Skidmore College field hockey team moved up one spot to fifth in the most recent Penn Monto/NFHCA Division III National Coaches' Poll.
 
The Thoroughbreds are currently 8-0 overall and 3-0 in Liberty League play after a pair of home victories over Vassar and Union.
 
Skidmore is led offensively by junior Kelly Blackhurst who has posted 14 goals and nine assists for 37 points.  She has also scored five of the Thoroughbreds' eight game-winning goals.  Senior Ceilidh MacNeill had six goals and five assists for 17 points to go along with a pair of game-winners. 


Sophomore goalie Haley McDougall has started every game in goal, posting a 1.50 GAA and .786 save percentage.
 
Salisbury tops the polls, followed closely by Middlebury at #2, TCNJ at #3 and Messiah ranked fourth.  Liberty League features two other teams in the poll as William Smith is 15^th and Rochester ranks 18^th.
 
Skidmore hosts #2 Middlebury, tomorrow at 4 p.m.