Women's Soccer Goes 1-1 Over Fall Break Trip

The Lady Saders traveled away over fall break, taking on both Central Penn (Oct 24) and Johnson & Wales (Oct 26).

The Crusaders came out firing and hungry for the win against Central Penn.  Within the first 2 minutes of the match the Crusaders had already taken a dominate four goal lead, with 2 goals from Anna Solitario, one from Halina Hibhl and one from Sofia Hudson.  The team kept scoring throughout the first half, and by halftime the Crusaders had accumulated a 7-0 lead.  Having such a large lead the team took their foot of the gas as the second half ended scoreless lending to a 7-0 Crusader victory.  The Crusaders played two goalies in the match, Lucy Stanford and Melanie Heinlein, they had a combined six saves, the strong goalkeeping gave the team its third shutout win of the year.  This convincing victory was big for the Crusaders as it gave them their 10^th win of the season.

Two days after the Central Penn game the team traveled south to play #3 ranked Johnson & Wales.  The Crusaders came out slow allowing two goals in the first 25 minutes of the game.  After surrendering the two goal lead the team cracked down defensively shutting down Johnson & Wales the rest of the game. The entire game the Crusaders had trouble getting anything going offensively, the team achieving a total of just two shots on goal.  With the 2-0 loss the Crusaders moved to 10-5 on the year. 

Lady Saders hope to bounce back from their loss to Johnson & Wales in their final game of the season (Oct 30, 4:00).