CHESTER, Pa. - Widener Field Hockey put on an impressive offensive display in it's MAC conference opener against Albright, winning by a final score of 9-0 at Edith R. Dixon Field.
With the win, the Pride improve to 4-4 (1-0 MAC) on the season.
BY THE NUMBERS
- The nine goal performance makes it back-to-back games the Pride have scored nine goals, the other time against Immaculata on Sept. 30.
- Brie Mallozzi led the way with two goals.
- Krista Bervinchak scored her first collegiate goal.
- Emma Korenthal made three saves in goal for Widener.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Widener proved it didn't run out of goals from their performance against Immaculata, as Karly Bervinchak got the Pride on the board just over five minutes into the contest. The goal was the junior's team leading eighth of the season. Neither team would score again in the period and it would remain 1-0 heading into the second quarter.
- Harlie Bakey doubled Widener's lead, scoring off a penalty stroke just over a minute into the second period. Later in the period, Krista Bervinchak scored after a Mallozzi shot deflected out to Bervinchak who promptly put the ball into the back of the cage. Mallozzi would get into the scoring action with just a little over two minutes left in the frame, the recipient of assists from Kayden Geiter and Addie Troy off a penalty corner. The Pride would take their 4-0 lead into the half.
- Just 1:24 in the third quarter, Troy opened the scoring when she recovered her own rebounded shot and put it past the Albright goalie. 36 seconds later, Annabella Cenci received a leading pass from Mallozzi and scored her sixth goal of the season to give the Pride a 6-0 lead.
- Widener kept it's foot on the gas in the fourth quarter, this time Sammie Pinelli scoring off a Kendall Blankenship pass to make it 7-0 in favor of the Pride. Mallozzi got her second goal of the game when she carved through the Albright defense and scored from point blank range to make it 8-0. Just under three minutes to go in the period, Geiter capped off the scoring barrage with a goal to seal the 9-0 shutout win.
UP NEXT
Widener will play it's first road game since Sept. 12 when it travels to Stevenson for a MAC match-up with the Mustangs. The game is scheduled to start at 6:00 p.m.
