CLARION, Pa. – Anna Chamberlin (Milford, Pa., Delaware Valley)scored a first half tally and the defense made it hold up as the Clarion women's soccer team earned a 3-0 home victory over the visiting Pitt-Johnstown Mountain Cats.
Clarion now improves to 6-4-1 overall and 5-3-1 in the PSAC while UPJ drops to 1-8-1 and 1-7-1 in the PSAC.
The victory is a not only important in the PSAC standings, but it also ties a program record for most wins by the Golden Eagles since the 2006 season. Fourth year head coach Sean Esterhuizen has his squad positioned well in the middle of the PSAC standings, and their five PSAC wins are a new program record.
Chamberlin got Clarion on the board first with a one-timer past the keeper that came in from teammate Aaliyah Odom (Pittsburgh, Pa., Plum) who played a great ball in off of a corner kick by Stephanie Lias (Aliquippa, Pa., Hopewell).
Late in the second half, the Pitt-Johnstown goalkeeper was red-carded for disrupting a breakaway from a streaking Dani McNally (Pittsburgh, Pa., North Hills), setting up a Clarion free kick from the 30 yard line. Senior Marina Kelly buried her shot past the Mountain Cats backup keeper, icing the game with under five minutes to play.
Just for good measure, freshman Dani McNally ripped a beautiful shot past the keeper to bring us to the 3-0 final.
Goalkeeper Krista Mosi and the rest of the Golden Eagles defense continued their consistent, stingy play, limiting the Mountain Cats to just 3 shots on goal.
The backline, headed by seniors Marina Kelly and Jess Kenny, have been arguably one of the PSAC's most dominant units.
Clarion will now turn its attention to Bloomsburg, who they will face in a PSAC road contest this coming Saturday, September 30th at 1pm.
