MIDDLEBURY, Vt.—The Skidmore College field hockey team gave number one and four-time defending national champion Middlebury College all it could handle Wednesday afternoon in a nonconference match-up. Two late Panther goals broke open a one-goal game in a 6-3 Middlebury win. The Panthers are 12-0 and have won 42 straight games. Skidmore is 7-6 and is the first team to score three goals in a regular season game against Middlebury since the 2018 season and the first non-NESCAC team to do it since Messiah in the 2016 NCAA Championship game. The last time Middlebury gave up three goals in a non-league regular-season game was in 2010 against…Skidmore.

• Middlebury had scored 10 goals in its previous two games and appeared on the way again after taking a 3-0 first quarter lead.
• Skidmore responded with three straight goals to tie it 3-3. Brooke Golden scored from Kayla Hassett at 20:18 and CC Wetter scored her seventh of the season from rianna Spiezio at 24:45 to cut it to 3-2 at the half.
• Tobie Dolan made it 3-3 at 32:14 from Carrie Hughes.
• The Panthers took the lead at 41:05 then added a pair of insurance goals at 53:13 and 54:26 for the 6-3 final.
• Middlebury had a 25-4 shot and 12-3 corner edge. Victoria Bodner had seven saves for the Thoroughbreds.
• NEXT UP: Skidmore returns to Liberty League play at home Friday against Union College at 4 p.m.