Lady Warriors Snap Skid in Resounding Fashion

Williamsport, Pa. – Lycoming women’s soccer got back on track Monday afternoon with a resounding 5-0 win over Lancaster Bible College at the Shangraw Athletic Complex in Williamsport.  Lycoming improves to 7-7 on the season and snaps a five-game losing skid.  Lancaster Bible falls to 10-7.

The Warriors out shot the Chargers 33-4 overall, but held LBC to only one shot in the second half.

Sophomore striker Danielle Curry (West Chester, Pa./East) moved closer to several program records with a pair of goals in the effort.  Curry now has eight goals on the season and 23 in her career giving her sole possession of second place on the Lycoming women’s soccer all-time goals scored list.  She sits only three tallies shy of the 26 goals scored by Donna Mongiello from 1998-2001.

The two goals also increased her season points total to 16.  Combined with her 38 points from last season, she now sits in second place just six points behind Mongiello’s record 66 points.  Curry already holds the single-season record for goals scored (15) and is only two assists short (15 career assists) of tying current teammate Kaitlyn Prairie (Delran, N.J./Delran) for second in career assists with 17.

Curry put the Warriors on the board with the first of two early goals for Lycoming.  She collected a pass from junior Stephanie Bomgardner (Dauphin, Pa./Central Dauphin East) at the top of the Charger penalty area and hammered the effort past a diving keeper.

Freshman Stephanie Shearer (Reading, Pa./Muhlenberg) scored just 0:46 later to give Lycoming a 2-0 advantage.  She beat the keeper one-on-one to complete a breakaway opportunity.

Junior Angie Conklin (Shermans Dale, Pa./West Perry) collected her second goal of the season in the 41^st minute.  She converted a chance in the middle of LBC’s penalty area to give Lycoming a 3-0 halftime lead.

Curry earned her second goal of the match in the 53^rd minute off an assist from freshman Rebekah Shipe (Northumberland, Pa./Northumberland Christian).  Curry again found herself open at the top of the penalty area and sent an impressive strike into the top-shelf netting of LBC’s goal.

Shipe notched her own goal exactly seven minutes later.  Shearer assisted on the score which marked the 10^th goal of the campaign for Shipe.  She is the first Lady Warrior to reach double-digit goals this season and the second freshman to do so in the past two years.

Lycoming is next in action on Thursday, October 20, at Wilkes University.  Game time is set for 3:00 p.m.