BOSTON, Mass. - UMass Boston Women's Soccer showed out on Monday night, keeping Eastern Nazarene College off the board while racking up eight goals for their biggest shutout victory since 2011.
THE BASICS
UMass Boston 8, Eastern Nazarene College 0
UMass Boston (5-3-3, 2-0-1 LEC)
Eastern Nazarene College (1-5-3, 1-2-1 MASCAC)
HOW IT HAPPENED
The goals came early and often for the Beacons on Monday night. In the 15th minute
Georgia Bonney set up for a corner kick and put the ball right where
Caileigh Sullivan needed it to knock in her third goal of the season. Just minutes later,
Christina LaFauci grabbed a pass from
Sarah Kelley and took it to the net for a score of her own, extending the lead to 2-0.
In the 21st minute, Bonney and Sullivan conjured up a bit of deja vu, once again connecting on a corner kick opportunity to give Sullivan her second goal of the opening half.
With her team mounting a comfortable lead early, head coach
Amy Zombeck flooded the field with younger players for some unprecedented playing time. One of those players logging a career-high in minutes was
Sofia Roberts, who took the opportunity to push the lead to 4-0 with her first career goal.
With the final seconds of the first half ticking off,
Amanda Regan put an exclamation point on a dominant 45 minutes of play, capitalizing off of a pass from
McKenna Hallinan to score her second goal of her freshman campaign.
After tying
Kaylee Haynes for the team lead in goals in the first half, Sullivan got generous and dished one out to the grad student. Haynes' team-best fifth goal of the season put the lead to 6-0 in favor of the hosts.
The late minutes of the second half saw
Alexis Williamson and
Julia Walsh pad the lead with their first career goals, helping the Beacons pick up a dominant 8-0 victory.
UMass Boston saw solid goalie play from three different goalies with
Julia Cote,
Delaney Sartwell, and
Gwyn Moore each logging 19-plus minutes in net. Moore and Cote each finished the night with a save.
BY THE NUMBERS
- The 8-0 shutout is the Beacons' largest shutout win since defeating Rhode Island College 9-0 in 2011
- Haynes surpassed Mary Jo Murphy for sole possession of sixth place on the program's all-time goal scorers list (22 goals)
- The Beacons' eight goal scorers were their most in a game this season
- Sullivan registered the first multi-goal game of the season for a UMass Boston player
- Women's Soccer is 25-2-4 when playing at home since the start of the 2019 season
- The biggest victory for either side in the all-time series between UMass Boston and Eastern Nazarene improved the Beacons' record against the Lions to 8-4-1
WHO'S NEXT
The Beacons will play the second game of a back-to-back on Tuesday night when they travel across the city to face Suffolk University at 7 PM.
