COLLEGE
WOMEN'S SOCCER FINAL SCORE
NESCAC Tournament Semi-final
Williams 4, Tufts 2
At Williamstown, MA
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Game
Box Score
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Sarah Nolet
pulled Tufts within 3-2 with her goal early in the second half
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WILLIAMSTOWN -- Playing in unseasonably sunny and relatively
warm conditions for November soccer on Cole Field, the Williams
College women's soccer team mounted a 3-0 lead in the first 25
minutes of play and went on to post a 4-2 victory to advance to the
NESCAC Tournament finals for the third consecutive season.
Tufts made a game of it, pulling within 3-2 early in the second
half. However, the Ephs retaliated quickly with their fourth goal
and held on for the win. Tufts, the fourth seed in the NESCAC
Tournament, finishes their season with an 8-7-1 overall record.
Undefeated Williams ups their overall record to 16-0.
Williams midfielder Sara Wild scored two of the Ephs' first
three goals, tallying her first score at the 10:55 mark. Wild
adeptly dribbled around her defender outside the 18-yard box to
find space to let off a shot. She nailed a shot right to Tufts
keeper, senior Kate
Minnehan (Hopkinton, NH), who got a touch on the ball,
but bobbled the save and allowed the ball to get past her into the
net for the early Williams lead.
Ephs defender Kara Duggan scored the second goal of the game in
the 19th minute. Tyler Rainer assisted on the play after collecting
a corner kick from the far post, and playing a cross towards net.
Duggan headed the ball for the two-goal advantage. Wild rounded out
the Ephs' early scoring at the 22:17 mark, capitalizing on a foul
in front of net. She laced a ball to the bottom left corner for the
3-0 lead.
Tufts would not go down without a fight, and narrowed the lead
just one minute later. Sophomore Alix Michael
(Mercer Island, WA) took a shot from far out that was
perfectly placed above leaping Ephs keeper Lauren Sinnenberg for
the visiting team's first goal of the game.
Tufts got within one goal of the Ephs after scoring early in the
second half. Junior Sarah Nolet (Los Altos, CA)
used her 6-foot frame to head a cross into the back left corner to
bring the score to 3-2. The two goals by Tufts were the most
allowed by Williams on Cole Field in the 2009 season.
Less than five minutes later, at 52:29, Rainer scored the Ephs'
fourth goal for a more comfortable lead. Off a pass from Brett
Eisenhart, Rainer quickly dribbled outside and away from her
defender and placed a ball that curved perfectly to the top left
corner for the 4-2 lead.
Sinnenberg recorded six saves in the win, while Minnehan tallied
7 saves in the Jumbos' loss.
Williams will face Middlebury in the NESCAC Championship Game
tomorrow at noon.
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