Late Rally Lifts Women's Soccer Past Catamounts, 3-1
October 27, 2002 | Women's Soccer
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The Terrier women's soccer team erupted for three second-half goals en route to 3-1 come-from-behind win over the University of Vermont at Centennial Field on Sunday afternoon.
The win kept the Terriers' post-season tournament hopes alive as they improved to 3-2-1 in America East action, while they are 6-9-2 overall. In the meantime, Vermont, slipped to a 4-12-0 mark overall and a 2-4-0 record in the conference.
The three-goal outburst ended a prolonged scoring drought for the Terriers, who had scored just one goal in their last six games. Overall, through the season's first 16 games, B.U. had scored just 11 goals. Only once this season had the Terriers mustered as many as three goals and that came in a 3-2 win over UMass on September 8th.
The Terriers could not have picked a better time to break out of their scoring doldrums as only three games remained during the regular-season. After the game at Vermont, the Terriers are due to travel to Hartford on October 31st for a 5:00 p.m. match before they return home of their finale against Albany on Sunday. Game time is scheduled for noon.
The game was not without some anxious moments for the Terriers, who spotted Vermont a 1-0 lead at the 53:34 mark on a goal by Anya Bohun-Chudyniv. To that point, B.U. had dominated the statistics. In fact, despite playing a scoreless first half, the Terriers had outshot the Catamounts by a 19-4 margin during the first 45 minutes of action..
The frustration finally ended in the 75th minute when freshman Susan Marschall (Baton Rouge, LA), who was making her first collegiate start at forward, fired a shot from 25 yards out that nipped the bottom on the cross bar and went into the Vermont net to tie the game at 1-1. It was her first collegiate goal, and it came at the 74:10 mark of the match.
Another freshman, Christina Kim (Fullerton, CA), also scored her first collegiate goal a little more than seven minutes later. Shortly after she entered the game as a substitution, she blasted a shot from the top of the penalty box for what proved to be the game-winning goal at the 81:27 mark.
Junior Katie Smurthwaite (West Hartford, CT) provided an insurance goal for the Terriers at 84:33 when she carried the ball down the left wing, cut back to lose her defender, and roofed her shot past Vermont keeper Brooke Fairbanks.
For the game, the Terriers outshot the Catamounts, 34-8, and had 8 corner kicks to one for Vermont. Junior goalkeeper Jessica Clinton (Valley Stream, NY) was called on to make just two saves in the Terrier goal, while Fairbanks had 11 saves for Vermont.
