MANSFIELD, Pa.- Alyson Cutter (Warrington, Pa./C.B. South) scored a pair of goals and assisted on another to help lead the West Chester University women's soccer team (3-2-0, 2-2-0) to a dominant 5-0 road victory over Mansfield (0-2-3, 0-2-1) on Saturday night.
Tonight's victory also helped head women's soccer coach
Betty Ann Kempf Townsley reach a major career milestone as she recorded her 400
th career victory as a collegiate head coach. This win, which is the latest milestone in an outstanding career as a collegiate head coach, including stops at La Salle and Seton Hall, makes Kempf Townsley just the 18
th active head coach in NCAA women's soccer and one of just four active DII coaches to reach this milestone. She is also one of just 12 Division II coaches to reach this milestone at DII (regardless of activity).
Cutter wasted little time giving West Chester the lead, breaking through in the 13
th minute before scoring just over 10 minutes later off an assist from
Faith Matter (Middletown, Pa./Middletown Area) to give the Golden Rams a commanding 2-0 advantage.
West Chester scored two more goals before the game hit halftime as
Kaitlynn Haughey (Philadelphia, Pa./Penn Charter) scored off an assist from Cutter in the 31
st minute before
Kianna Barber (Browns, N.J./Burlington County Institute of Technology) scored her first collegiate goal off an assist from Matter in the 39
th minute.
West Chester went to the halftime break with a 4-0 lead on the scoreboard, a 19-3 advantage in shots, and a 5-3 advantage in corners.
Out of the halftime break, West Chester continued to control the match, outshooting its hosts 13-0 in the second half while also ending the half with a 7-0 advantage in corners to finish the match with a 32-3 lead in shots (17-3 in shots on goal) and a 12-3 lead in corner kicks.
The Golden Rams added a fifth goal to their lead in the 77
th minute when
Maddie Mosier (Hockessin, Del./Padua Academy) took a feed from
Kate Alexander (East Islip, N.Y./East Islip) and buried it past an outstretched Serenity Esterline, who entered for the second half in relief of Alyssa Shuman.
Shuman played the first half in goal for Mansfield and made six saves, while Esterline made six saves of her own in the second half of play.
For West Chester,
Grace Keen (Lincoln University, Pa./Avon Grove) and
Samantha Hollish (Horsham, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) split the match in goal as Keen played the first 82 minutes, making three saves before Hollish finished the game, playing the final eight minutes in between the pipes.
Up Next:
West Chester continues its road trip next week with a visit to Lock Haven next Sunday for a 2 p.m. start at the home of the Bald Eagles.
