CHESTER, Pa. – Six different players scored goals as the Widener University women's soccer team got back on the winning track with an 8-0 victory against the Penn State Abington Nittany Lions at Leslie C. Quick, Jr. Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Widener wasted little time getting on the board as in the ninth minute as Brielle Errico took a perfectly placed through ball from Lauren Wilson and dribbled around the keeper to send home her fourth goal of the season.
- The next two goals both came from Eva Reyes. The first came at the 11:45 mark as Lexi Slusher passed a ball from the goal line that Reyes collected at the top of the six and drove past the keeper. In the 25th minute, she took a pass across the goal from Gabrielle Campbell and beat the goalie into the top right corner.
- Just shy of 10 minutes later, Kailea Schwartz touched a ball down off a turnover and drilled a shot from 25 yards out, above the leaping goaltender and into the top of the net for a 4-0 Pride lead.
- The scoring in the first half was capped as the Blue and Gold converted a set piece with Alexa Byers sending a ball into the mixer on a corner that was corralled by Rachel Hafer and sent into the back of the goal.
- Widener struck again in the 63rd minute as after a ball was played out wide to Alyssa Dionisio, she centered it for Byers who redirected into the lower right corner for her first career goal.
- Just more than two minutes later, Schwartz scored her second of the match, a near carbon copy of her initial marker.
- Late in the second half, the Pride wrapped the scoring with a goal from Allie Maszlanka who redirected a service from the right from Isabella Hill.
BY THE NUMBERS
- The Blue and Gold held a 40-1 advantage in shots for the match including 21-0 in attempts on target.
- Errico's goal was her fourth of the year, marking the first time Widener has three players with four or more goals in a season since Karen Thomas (17), Jenna Pedrick (7), and Kelly Buckley (6) in 2013.
- The Pride now has 38 goals on the season, the most since it scored 43 in 2010.
UP NEXT
Widener returns to action on Saturday, Oct. 14 for homecoming in a MAC Commonwealth contest against the nationally ranked No. 7 Messiah Falcons. Match time is slated for 7:30 p.m.