Tartans Score 10 in Home Victory Against La Roche
The Carnegie Mellon University women's soccer team hosted La Roche College on Wednesday and defeated the Redhawks by a 10-0 score with two players recording two goals each. The Tartans are now 3-1-1 for the year while the Redhawks drop to 1-3.
Inside the Box Score
- Junior Alma Zhong recorded the game-winning goal in the third minute of the contest off assists from freshman Lauren Ricapito and senior Saveria Ulizzi.
- Four minutes later, senior Natalie Rayce scored her first of two goals off another assist by Ulizzi.
- In the 25th minute, sophomore Haley Peek scored her first goal of the season when she finished off a cross into the box from sophomore Ashley Hernandez.
- An own goal by La Roche made the score 4-0 in the 39th minute when a defender redirected a shot by junior Maria Drazenovic.
- The Tartans pressed every goal kick in the second half and turned many into goals, the first coming in the 48th minute when sophomore Caroline Klauder picked off a defender following a throw-in deep in the offensive zone to fire a shot over the keeper from six yards out.
- Rayce then scored off another feed into the box by Ulizzi in the 54th minute.
- Klauder scored her second goal in the 55th minute after Rayce pressed the defense into a poor clearance which Klauder ran onto for the quick shot.
- Ulizzi put one in the net in the 56th minute following a cross into the box by Zhong.
- Sophomore Arianna Peart scored her first career goal in the 79th minute after she picked up a ball off a defender from a pass into the box by freshman Sophie Arnal. Peart moved around the defenders to put a shot over the keeper.
- Arnal did earn an assist on the final goal of the game when she served a diagonal ball into the box for sophomore Simone Mazzarino in the 87th minute. Mazzarino settled the pass and took a shot over the keeper.
- Senior Maddie Kellogg earned the win after playing 50 minutes in goal for the Tartans. She shared the shutout with senior Kate Bergan and freshman Arya Jamkhandi.