BERKELEY -- California field hockey bounced back with a 3-1 victory over the Yale Bulldogs Sunday afternoon at Underhill Field.

Fionna Jensen scored her first career goal, and Megan Rodgers added a brace to bring her season total to six goals. The duo was among the seven Golden Bears who combined for 19 shots on the day, including 10 from Rodgers herself.

Despite shot after shot by the Bears early in the first half, it took nearly 27 minutes to break the scoreless tie. Rodgers dribbled a ball from the baseline into the middle of the circle and launched it in without help at 26:10 for Cal's first goal of the day. Jensen capitalized on the momentum not long after, as the Bears drew a penalty corner in the 29th minute. Cal's corner offense created havoc near the corner of the cage, and Jensen poked the ball in.

At halftime, Cal led Yale 2-0 with an 11-2 advantage in shots.

Rodgers added her second goal of the day early in the second half, scoring at 43:01 with a long pass from Lindsay Mathison. The score marked her second multi-goal game of the season after she notched a hat trick in Cal's season opener.

Yale broke the shutout at 50:50, scoring on a penalty corner setpiece thanks to Olivia Levieux.

Goalkeeper Danielle Mentink earned the win for the Bears, allowing one goal in 53 minutes of play. Natalie Dalton played the remaining 17:16 without allowing a Yale score. Bulldog keeper Sydney Terroso tallied four saves in her complete-game performance.

With the win, Cal improves to 3-3 on the season.
 

HEAD COACH SHELLIE ONSTEAD'S TAKE

Our focus this last week has been about the conversion rate inside to the attacking 25. We've been working hard on the forward movement and creating more opportunities, and that's awesome. If you're doing it well, you're going to get shots and you're going to corners.
 

GOLDEN BEARS ON THEIR GOALS

1. Megan Rodgers
I took the ball from the baseline and beat two defenders. There was a foul but I played on and shot it in between the goalie's legs.

2. Fionna Jensen
It was off a sweep in. We tipped it off the goalie and it hit the post. I was in the right place at the right time to sweep it in. We'd been practicing the dirty goal all week -- the area where it's so congested and chaotic -- so I was glad that the work paid off and the team set us up for success.

3. Megan Rodgers (assisted by Lindsay Mathison)
Lindsay Mathison passed it in and I took a reverse shot.

NEXT UP

Cal heads to Evanston, Ill. for a pair of games hosted by Northwestern. The weekend slate begins Saturday against the Iowa Hawkeyes at 9:30 a.m. PT, followed by Northwestern on Sunday at 9 a.m. PT.