WEST HAVEN, Conn. – Coming off a second-straight run to the Northeast-10 Conference semifinals, the New Haven Field Hockey team will embark on an 18-game slate, including nine on its home turf at Ralph F. DellaCamera Stadium. Under first-year head coach Margaret Maclean, the Chargers will look to build on another postseason run.
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The Chargers will open up with one of four games scheduled against an opponent from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference when they kickoff the season on the road against Kutztown University who finished out the 2022 campaign with a 16-3 record but missed the NCAA Championship. The 2023 season opener is slated for Thursday, August 31 at 3:00 p.m.
The Blue and Gold will then make their debut in West Haven when they return back to the Nutmeg State to host the Molloy Lions in what also serves as the Chargers Northeast-10 Conference opener. Looking to build on a streak of three straight wins and outscoring the Lions 17-3 in that stretch, New Haven will make its first appearance on the Blue and Gold Turf on Tuesday, September 5 under the lights with a 7:00 p.m. start.
The Chargers will spend the next 10 days and three games away from West Haven, beginning with a pair of games at Whitenight Field in East Stroudsburg, Pa. First up on the road tip will come against the reigning National Champion, meeting the East Stroudsburg Warriors on their home turf on Friday, September 8. Two days later, the Chargers will play a neutral site game when they take on Mansfield for the first time in program history on Sunday, September 10. Rounding out the road trip will be a return to NE10 play with a visit to Rindge, N.H. for a date with the Franklin Pierce Ravens on Friday, September 15.
New Haven will then return to West Haven for back-to-back home games, the first of three instances the Chargers will play two-straight at home broken up only by a single road game between each series. First up will be a pair of NE10 contests against Saint Thomas Aquinas (September 20) and Bentley (September 23). The second of those comes against the Falcons, the first meeting between the two since the Chargers scored an overtime win in the first round of the NE10 Championship last November for the second season in a row.
A quick trip to Worcester, Mass. for a date with Assumption (September 26) is the only game before another set of back-to-back home games with American International and Bloomsburg visiting the Chargers West Haven campus next. The meeting with AIC (September 30) will close out the month of September while the third of four PSAC teams, Bloomsburg (October 1), will open the final month of the regular season.
The quick trip away from campus this time around will be a short jaunt to New Haven for the annual rivalry game against Southern Connecticut State University (October 4) on the Owls newly replaced turf at Jess Dow Field. The third set of back-to-back home games will consist of a pair of NE10 games against Southern New Hampshire (October 7) and Mercy (October 10).
For the first time since the early season road trip, the Chargers play two-straight on the road as they continue NE10 play with visits to Saint Anselm (October 14) and Pace (October 18), the first of those coming on the site of NCAA National Championship, Saint Anselm's Grappone Field.
The final two Northeast-10 regular season games will come split between home and away, beginning with a home contests against Saint Michael's on October 21 before traveling to Adelphi for the final NE10 contest on October 24. The final game in the 18-game regular season slate will come under the lights as the Chargers host their final PSAC opponent of the season when they welcome West Chester to DellaCamera Stadium on Friday, October 27.
Following the regular season, the top eight teams in the conference standings will qualify for the NE10 Championship, which opens with quarterfinal match-ups on Halloween Night, Tuesday, October 31 at the home sites of the four highest seeds. The semifinal and championship matches will also take place at home sites on November 3 and November 5, respectively.
The six-team NCAA Division II Championship will begin with First Round games scheduled to take place November 11 at two campus sites determined by the selection committee. The season will culminate with the NCAA Semifinals and Championship being contested November 17-19 at Grappone Stadium in Manchester, N.H.
All home matches and select road matches will be broadcast live, for free, on the Charger Sports Network, part of NE10Now. Additionally, live stats will be provided for all matches with links available at NewHavenChargers.com.
