No. 12 West Chester Downs Edinboro In Regular-Season Finale

Box Score

EDINBORO, Pa. – Sr., attackers Ashley Pyle (Springfield, Pa./Garnet Valley) and Dina Cifelli (Robbinsville, N.J./Notre Dame) led the way as visiting West Chester rolled to a regular-season finale win over host Edinboro on a drizzly Saturday afternoon inside Sox Harrison Stadium.
 
Pyle posted a game-high eight points (4 goals, 4 assists) while her partner in crime on attack registered seven of her own (3 goals, 4 assists). For Cifelli, she now has 218 career assists and 299 career points as the Golden Rams enter the PSAC Tournament.
 
West Chester (12-4, 9-3 PSAC) finishes the regular season tied for second place with Indiana (Pa.) and Mercyhurst and will be the second seed in the PSAC Tournament. The Golden Rams will receive a bye into the semifinals, which will be played at regular-season champion East Stroudsburg, next weekend. The Rams will get the winner of Seton Hill vs. Mercyhurst, which will be played on Tuesday in Erie, Pa. The other quarterfinal pits IUP against Slippery Rock in Indiana, Pa., on Tuesday.
 
West Chester's 22-5 victory in the regular-season finale sends the Golden Rams into the playoffs on a winning note. Tara Morrissey (Downingtown, Pa./Bishop Shanahan) scored four goals off the bench while Tatum Altman (East Brunswick, N.J./East Brunswick) finished with five points (3 goals, 2 assists), and Kristen Vath (Milford, N.J./Delaware Valley) posted four points (3 goals, 1 assist).
 
Rachel Harman (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley) scored a pair of goals.
 
Nicole Martins (Bethlehem, Pa./Saucon Valley) improved to 12-4 in the cage, making three saves in the first half. Carly Shaup (Glassboro, N.J./Clearview) played the second half and made three saves as well.