Gwynedd Valley, PA – Top-seeded Gwynedd Mercy University advanced to Saturday's Colonial States Athletic Conference field hockey championship game with a 5-0 victory over #4 Keystone College in a CSAC semifinal game on Wednesday night.  The Griffins, now 13-5 on the season, will host #2 Cabrini College in Saturday's title game while the Giants end the 2015 season with a 5-11 record after making their first postseason appearance since 2012.
 
#2 Cabrini defeated #3 Marywood University 2-0 in Wednesday's other semifinal contest to punch their ticket to Saturday's championship game.
 
Gwynedd Mercy opened the scoring in the 10^th minute of Wednesday night's contest as Maggie Walsh netted her third goal of the season by scoring unassisted following a penalty corner.  The Griffins pushed their lead to 2-0 in the 17^th minute as Megan Senkeleski found the back of the cage after taking a feed from Katie O'Neill on another penalty corner.
 
The hosts took the 2-0 lead into halftime after outshooting Keystone by a 17-0 margin in the opening 35 minutes of play.  Giants' goalie Amy Denmon (Beaumont, PA/Lake-Lehman) kept the visitors in the game by making nine saves in the first half.
 
Gwynedd Mercy opened up a three-goal advantage in the 43^rd minute as Melissa Russo scored her 22^nd goal of the year by one-timing home a pass into the circle from Stephanie Bacho.  Senkeleski tallied her second goal of the game in the 47^th minute as the Griffins took advantage of another penalty corner to open up a 4-0 lead with Walsh adding her second assist of the evening. 
 
Shannon Carroll closed out the scoring with just 11 seconds left in regulation by tallying off of any O'Neill assist on the goal which came off of a penalty corner.
 
Samantha Soscia picked up the shutout win for Gwynedd Mercy by making two saves on the evening for the Griffins, who held a 30-2 advantage in shots with a 19-2 lead in shots on goal.  The hosts also generated 18 penalty corner chances to none for the Giants.
 
Denmon finished the game with 13 saves to finish the year with a Keystone record 215 stops.  The senior also closes her career at the Giants' all-time leader in saves with 307.
 
Adrienne Mellot (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling Springs) added a defensive save in the loss, her 20^th of the season which currently is tops in the nation.  The senior defender ends her career as both the CSAC and Keystone's all-time leader in defensive saves with 33 for her career.
 
Allison Berman (Wilkes-Barre, PA/E.L. Meyers) and Kaitlyn Sawicki (Factoryville, PA/Lackawanna Trail) had a shot on goal each for the Giants in the loss.
 
Wednesday night's game marked the final game in a Keystone uniform for seniors Denmon, Mellot, Sawicki, Justine Firmstone (Honesdale, PA/Honesdale), and Courtney Wood (Factoryville, PA/Lackawanna Trail).