No. 20 Women???s Soccer Upends UMBC, 3-0
October 19, 2006 | Women's Soccer
BOSTON – The 20th-ranked Boston University women’s soccer (13-3-2, 5-0-1 AE) defeated the UMBC Retrievers (4-12-1, 0-7-0) by a 3-0 margin on Thursday afternoon at UMBC’s Soccer Stadium. Farrell McClernon scored her four game winner of the season and Lauren Erwin and Erica Lee each contributed a goal, as BU remains undefeated in conference action.
After peppering the UMBC defense with four shots in the first 20 minutes, the Terriers broke through at 24:06. Just one game after scoring her first collegiate goal, freshman defender Corie Halasz (Milford, Conn.) added her first assist of her career with a pass to classmate Farrell McClernon (West Chester, Pa.) in the 25th minute. Halasz served a crisp pass to McClernon and from 11-yards out the team-leading goal scorer served it into the back of the net.
Junior Lauren Basham (Lake Oswego, Ore.) nearly upped the Terrier lead at 31:12 when her shot rang off the post merely six seconds after Retriever goalkeeper Robin Babaris saved senior Lauren Erwin’s (Orange, Conn.) shot.
Senior defender Erica Lee (Oakton, Va.) increased BU’s lead over UMBC when she went made her way to the Retrievers end for a corner kick, cleared up a loose ball near the six-yard line and drilled into the net at 40:11. It was her first goal of the season and third of her career.
In the first half alone BU pressured the UMBC defense earning 12 shots and six corner kicks.
Just six and a half minutes into the second half, Erwin scored her fifth goal of the season from a Basham feed. Basham corralled a UMBC turnover and gave it off to Erwin whose shot from eight-yards out snuck inside the left post.
Senior Stephanie Dreyer (New Rochelle, N.Y.) and Christina Reuter (Madison, Wisc.) shared netminding duties, but neither were tested, as the BU defense held the Retrievers to four total shots and none on goal.
In the last regular season competition of 2006, the Terriers will take on the University of Hartford Hawks on Sunday, Oct. 22 in West Hartford, Conn. Kick-off is set for 2 p.m. Hartford is currently 4-0-2 in the conference and goes head-to-head with Binghamton tonight at 6 p.m.
