Five First-Half Goals Lead No. 9 Women’s Soccer Past Le Moyne, 5-0
Demoner, Smith net pair of goals each
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Rachel Smith scored a pair of first-half goals in the Ravens
victory over Le Moyne on Sunday afternoon.RINDGE, N.H. (September 6,
2009) – Senior back Rachel Smith
(Chichester, N.H.) scored a pair of first-half goals,
including the game-winner, on Sunday afternoon to lead the No. 9
nationally ranked Franklin Pierce University women’s soccer
team to a 5-0 victory over Le Moyne in Northeast-10 Conference play
at Sodexo Field. Senior midfielder Gabriela Demoner
(Vitoria, Brazil) also scored twice and added a pair of
assists for Franklin Pierce.
With the win, Franklin Pierce improves to 3-2-0 (1-1-0
Northeast-10), while Le Moyne falls to 2-1-1 (0-1-1 Northeast-10)
with the loss.
Franklin Pierce opened the scoring in the 12th minute when Demoner
took a corner kick on the right side. Her service fell at the top
of the six-yard box where Smith got her head to it and redirected
it over the keeper and inside the left post to give the Ravens a
1-0 lead. Demoner would make it 2-0 in the 18th minute with her
seventh goal of the season. She corralled a feed from the right
side inside the penalty area, spun around the defender behind her
and beat Le Moyne freshman goalkeeper Kelsey McGee to the far side,
inside the left post.
Franklin Pierce pushed the lead to 3-0 in the 36th minute.
Sophomore forward Amanda Panaro (Rockland, Mass.)
served a free kick into the box from 40 yards out on the right
side. Again it was Smith who got her head to it at the top of the
six-yard box and popped it over McGee and into the net for her
second goal of the game. Soon thereafter, in the 40th minute,
Demoner made it 4-0 in favor of the Ravens. With the ball at her
feet at the top of the penalty area on the left side, she faked her
defender left, went right and struck a shot which beat McGee,
bounced off the left post and found its way into the net.
Demoner’s second goal of the game was her eighth of the
season, surpassing her total from 2008 in only her fourth match of
the season.
Junior forward Angelika Johansson (Falkenberg,
Sweden) would cap the first-half scoring with her third
goal of the season in the 44th minute. She was sent in all alone on
a nifty flick-on by Demoner near midfield. Johansson drew the
keeper off her line, went around her on the right side and knocked
the ball into the empty net to push the lead to 5-0. The Ravens
controlled play throughout the first half and went into the
intermission with a 22-3 shots advantage.
Le Moyne’s best chance of the contest came in the 74th
minute, when senior forward Christina Harrison was awarded a
penalty kick after being tripped up on a run through the left side
of the box. However, her strike went towards the middle of the cage
and was turned aside by Franklin Pierce sophomore goalkeeper
Jocelyn Leon (Lenox, Mass.) to preserve the
shutout.
Le Moyne upped the pressure in the second half to the tune of a
13-4 shots advantage, while Franklin Pierce held a 26-16 edge over
the full 90 minutes. The Ravens attempted four corner kicks to Le
Moyne’s three.
Leon stopped all six shots on her cage to earn the win (2-1-0) in
net for Franklin Pierce and post her first shutout of the season.
McGee made five saves against 10 shots and took the loss (0-1-0)
between the pipes for Le Moyne.
The Ravens return to the pitch on Tuesday, Sept. 8, when they host
Southern New Hampshire in a Northeast-10 Conference contest.
Kickoff is scheduled for 4 p.m. at Sodexo Field.