Balanced Attack Overwhelms Shorewomen
The Garnet (6-2, 1-1) used a balanced attack that featured seven different goal scorers in a 10-6 victory over visiting Washington (3-6, 1-2) in Centennial Conference action on Thursday night.
Niamh Shortt '06 paced the attack with two goals and an assist while Heidi Fieselmann '06 and Megan Sanborn '08 each scored twice.
The Garnet took a 5-4 lead into the break in a tightly contested first half. Megan Speare '05 opened the scoring with an unassisted goal at 21:59 and Erin Bollinger countered just three minutes later. Fieselmann then tallied the next two Garnet goals, the first off a Rachel Jordan '08 feed and the second on a free position attempts to make it 3-2. Shortt and Sanborn then scored free position goals 1:44 apart to give Swat a 5-2 lead with 9:09 remaining in the half.
Washington closed to within one on goals by Lindsay Eichner and Megan Block.
Swarthmore broke the game open in the second half scoring four consecutive goals to build a 9-4 lead with 13:07 remaining. Lindsay Roth '07 started the string at 26:21, Sanborn added her second at 20:07, Katie Crawford '07 hit the back of the net on a Shortt feed at 15:10 and Ele Forbes '05 scored on a break away at 13:07 to put the game away.
Bolling lessened the damage with her second goal of the game at 11:08 and Shortt added her second off a Roth assist at 8:58 to end the Garnet scoring. Tarra Boulden picked up her second goal of the night with 4:16 remaining in the game to close out the scoring.
Swarthmore held a 38-16 advantage in shots in the game. Susanna Blair '08 recorded seven saves in goal for the Garnet while Mollie Binotto made 15 stops for the Shorewomen.
The Garnet travel to Dickinson on Saturday for at 3 p.m. Centennial match-up.