Box Score Worcester, Mass. – Julia Hamilton (Williamstown, Mass./Deerfield Academy) (Williamstown, Mass.) finished with two goals and an assist and visiting Smith College spoiled senior day for Clark University with a convincing 5-1 win over the Cougars in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) field hockey action on Saturday afternoon.

The win for the Pioneers sends their record to 10-8 overall and they finish the conference slate at 5-3, good enough to earn the No. 3 seed in the upcoming league tournament, which begins on Tuesday. They will play host to sixth-seeded and Pioneer Valley rival Springfield College at 7:00 p.m.
 
For the Cougars, meanwhile, they see their 2015 that began with a 2-1 start, wind up at 5-12 overall.
 
Smith wasted little time getting on the board as Hamilton set up Mariah Ollive (Milton, Vt./Milton) just 6:15 into the contest.
 
That lead doubled a little more than five minutes later when Emily Biggs (Florence, MA/Northampton) rattled the back of the cage with help from Casey Rau (Pottstown, Pa./Owen J. Roberts).

Smith moved ahead 3-0 moments into the second period as Ollive connected with Caroline Labriola (Westbrook, Conn./Westbrook) for her second tally of the year at 38:04.
 
Hamilton then recorded a pair of unassisted markers – her eighth and ninth of the season – a little more than six minute apart to push the Pioneer advantage to 5-0.
 
The Scarlet and White avoided the shutout whenOlivia Barksdale registered her team-leading 13th goal with a little more than 15 minutes left to play.
 
Cameo Tietje (Massapequa, N.Y./Massapequa) only need to made two saves to improve to 9-5 in the cage for Smith, while Clark senior netminder Christine Tinsman recorded a pair of stops of her own before giving way to Dani Machaud who turned aside six shots.

(Recap courtesy Clark athletics)