Swarthmore Spicey In Baltimore!
Midfielder Summer Spicer '07 had two goals and two assists as Swarthmore scored four second-half goals on their way to a 5-1 victory over Villa Julie on Saturday afternoon.
The Garnet (2-0) were playing in the annual Black-Eyed Susan Tournament, and effectively crashed the party.
Villa Julie scored first, putting a goal past Garnet goalie Karen Lorang '07 at the 18:47 mark.
Swarthmore answered with an Abbie Fischer '08 goal off a penalty corner at 21:55. Spicer was there to control the corner, setting up Fischer's first goal of the 2005 season.
The Garnet penalty corner unit took over the game in the second half, with three more scores coming via the penalty corner. Spicer scored her first goal at 39:32, followed 19 seconds later by an unassisted goal by Julia Morrision '07. Alex Clegg '08 put home a set-up from Spicer at 46:04 and Spicer capped the scoring with her second score off a Clegg set-up.
Swarthmore travels down Route 320 on Thursday afternoon to take on Widener University at 7:00 p.m.
Charlotte MacAusland '06 got the scoring underway in the second minute of the game, re-directing a blast from Fieselman into the right corner of the cage at the 1:48 mark.
Fieselmann pushed the lead to 2-0 with her first goal of the season at the 4:21 mark. Both teams went back and forth for much of the first half before the flood gates opened and more goals filled the scoreboard.
Fieselmann extended the Swarthmore (1-0) lead to 3-0 with her second goal of the game at 21:31, only to see Neumann answer back with two goals of their own in a span of two minutes.
Junior forward Rachel Mease finished off a pass from midfielder Chantelle Knuttel at 23:31, and sophomore Gabriele Bendistis followed with her own goal off a feed from Mease to cut the Garnet lead to 3-2 with just under ten minutes left in the half.
Swarthmore kept Neumann off the board for the remainder of the half, heading into the intermission with a the 3-2 advantage.
Fieselmann got the Garnet train rolling again at the start of the second half, completing her hat trick with a goal at the 37:18 mark. Midfielder Lindsay Roth '07 added an insurance goal at the 53:20 mark to give Swarthmore the final 5-2 margin of victory.
Karen Lorang '07 played the first half and made four saves, while classmate Melissa LaVan took over in the second half and recorded one save. Chelsea Ward made 11 saves in goal for the Knights (0-1).
The opening day victory is the fourth consecutive for the Garnet, dating back to a 1-0 win over Widener in 2002.
Roth was the last Garnet player to tally a hat-trick, accomplishing the feat on Sept. 4, 2004 in a 7-1 Swarthmore win over Goucher.
For their next contest, Swarthmore travels to Villa Julie on Saturday, Sept. 3 for a 12:00 p.m. contest.