Amanda Panaro's Hat Trick Leads #11 Women's Soccer to 6-2 Win Over Felician
Amanda Panaro has seven-point afternoon
RINDGE, N.H. (September 4, 2010) –
Junior forward Amanda Panaro (Rockland, Mass.)
recorded a hat trick on Saturday to pace the 11th-ranked
Franklin Pierce University women’s soccer team to a 6-2 win
over Felician on the final day of the 2010 FPU Classic in Sodexo
Field. The Ravens improved to 2-0, while Felician fell to 0-2.
Panaro also assisted on a goal to total a seven-point afternoon. The outburst came one day after she had a goal and an assist in Franklin Pierce’s 2-0 win over Queens (N.Y.) in the season opener. In the opening two games, Panaro has four goals and two assists for 10 points.
Shona Franklin (Birmingham, England) and Margret Thorolfsdottier (Reykjavit, Iceland) each had a goal and an assist for the Ravens to record three-point afternoons. Sophomore Casey Edward (Marshfield, Mass.) rounded out the scoring for FPU with a tally of her own. The goals for Thorolfsdottier and Edward were the first of their collegiate careers.
It didn’t take long for Panaro to make her mark as she scored goals on her first two shots. Her first tally came just 35 seconds into the contest as she scored off a crossing pass from Thorolfsdottier. Panaro would connect again, just four minutes later, as she took another crossing pass in front of the net and redirected a shot past the Felician goalkeeper. The assist went to Franklin on Panaro’s second marker.
The Golden Falcons, however, did not fold and quickly went to work and scored consecutive goals within a two-minute span to knot the contest at 2-2. Jenn Hesse and Stephanie Jimenez each scored for Felician as both tallies were mirror images of each other. Both players were able to redirect passes in front of the net past Franklin Pierce goalkeeper Jocelyn Leon (Lenox, Mass.) to tie the game.
Leon, though, did not flinch herself and settled down the rest of
the game by not allowing another goal. She improved to 2-0 on the
season with the win.
Franklin Pierce struggled the rest of the first half to muster much offense, but it did regroup for an explosive second half.
Franklin broke the two-all draw in the 60th minute when she dribbled down the left side of the box and blasted a shot past the Felician goalkeeper to put the Ravens up 3-2. It was the first goal of the season for Franklin, who entered this year fresh off Second-Team Northeast-10 honors in 2009.
Panaro notched her hat trick in the 85th minute when she collected a loose ball in front of the goal, turned, and fired into the upper left corner of the net. Thorolfsdottir scored her goal a little less than a minute later, and Panaro ultimately capped her amazing afternoon by slipping a sweet pass to Edward, who scored with a strike from 10 yards out in the 87th minute.
Franklin Pierce out-shot Felician by a count of 27-3, and have limited the opposition to just six shots total in the first two games of the season.
The Ravens return to action on Friday when they play host to New Haven in their Northeast-10 Conference opener. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. in Sodexo Field. The contest will be Pierce Pride Night for the women’s soccer team as giveaways will be handed out to 150 students.
For more information on Franklin Pierce women’s soccer, please visit the team’s page at athletics.franklinpierce.edu(.) You can also visit www.youtube.com/franklinpiercesports and www.twitter.com/FPUathletics to find out more about the program.