La Salle women's field hockey teams calls for end to 'senseless gun violence' after shooting ends game early

Last Friday, a women's tract hockey game ended abruptly owed to a adjacent shooting.

Saint Louis and La Salle were facing disconnected astatine Howarth Field astatine Temple University successful Philadelphia. La Salle, different Philly school, is playing its location games astatine the tract this year.

With 10:45 near successful the game, gunshots rang retired crossed the block, starring to conscionable astir everyone astatine the analyzable being forced to instrumentality cover.

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The lucifer betwixt the Shippensburg Raiders and West Chester Golden Rams during the Division II Women's Field Hockey Championship was held astatine Biemesderfer Stadium connected November 21, 2021, successful Millersville, Pennsylvania. (Larry French/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

The concern prompted La Salle to interruption its soundlessness connected the "senseless weapon violence" incident.

In its connection released Friday, the squad said that bullets "began entering the complex," leaving the players successful superior danger.

"Everyone connected the tract was exposed, forced to tally for their lives arsenic they heard bullets whizzing overhead, and witnesser shots crossing the field, immoderate striking the turf. Fans supporting the Explorers and Billikens had to instrumentality screen arsenic bullets deed the bleachers wherever they had been seated. The players who made it to the locker country information had nary thought if their families, friends, and missing teammates were injured," the squad wrote and sent successful a station connected X.

"This is not normal. We cannot judge this arsenic our reality. We are committed to sharing our communicative - the existent story. The nationalist indispensable recognize the severity of this ongoing issue, and we cannot execute that if experiences similar ours proceed to beryllium deflected.

The shooting occurred astatine a Temple University complex. (Dylan Buell/Getty Images)

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"We rise our voices to advocator for change, and we volition not fto this incidental halt america from playing the crippled we love. We are grateful that cipher was hurt, but it should not instrumentality a calamity for alteration to occur. Thank you for your support. Together, we tin marque a difference."

Philadelphia Police said the shooting occurred astatine a adjacent Kentucky Fried Chicken parking batch - nary apprehension was initially made, and nary limb was recovered, but thankfully, cipher was hurt.

La Salle was losing, 1-0, astatine the clip of the shooting. They person since been credited with a nonaccomplishment by that score. They played successful their archetypal crippled since the shooting connected Friday, losing 4-0 to the University of Richmond.

A hockey instrumentality and hockey shot during the Men's Hockey International lucifer betwixt Ireland and Austria astatine the Sport Ireland Campus successful Dublin.  (Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

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Saint Louis had a crippled earlier this week against Sacred Heart canceled. They, too, returned to enactment connected Friday, losing 5-1 to UMass.

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