CLARION, Pa. --- The Golden Eagles soccer team ran into an offensive force on Saturday afternoon, as Clarion fell 6-0 to Slippery Rock at Memorial Stadium. The Rock were aggressive offensively from the jump, and though the Golden Eagles were able to weather the storm in the first half, it was Slippery Rock who got the better in the second.
 
The Rock struck first in the contest, capitalizing on a chance in just the 10^th minute of action. Slippery Rock had been peppering Clarion goalkeeper Sage Sherk with shots in the opening minutes, with Maddie DeLucio launching a shot from close range that Sherk stopped but could not stop from ricocheting away. Bailey McGee played the rebound and pounded it past Sherk, giving her side a 1-0 lead.
 
Despite the barrage of shots unleashed by the Rock, that remained the only goal of the first half. Slippery Rock took 21 total shots and put eight of them on net, with Sherk turning away seven of those attempts.
 
Slippery Rock kept up the pressure in the second half, netting five more goals as they built a significant lead. Two of those goals came in the first 10 minutes of the period, starting with Skyler Munnikhuysen took a pass from McGee and ripped it past Sherk in the 49^th minute to give the Rock a 2-0 lead, and McGee netted her second goal of the game in the 54^th minute off a nice sequence of passes from DeLucio and Olivia Yoder. Morgan Sarver tallied a pair of goals late in the half, eventually upping The Rock's lead to 5-0. DeLucio provided the goal of the day, scoring with 22 seconds remaining off a pass from Palermo.
 
Clarion's best opportuniies to score came late in the second half. In the 62^nd minute, sophomore forward Ciara DiMauro fired a curving shot from distance, lifting it over the keeper but hooking it just over the net and out of bounds. In the 69^th minutes, Marisa Colondrillo got a hold of a shot that hit the top woodwork, just missing a goal.
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