Women's Soccer Blows By Vermont, 7-0

Tuesday, October 19

Burlington, Vt.

3:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Vermont

10/19/2010 6:09:00 PM | Women's Soccer

By: Dartmouth

BURLINGTON, Vt. - It was an offensive explosion for the Dartmouth women's soccer team with nine different players recording a point in a 7-0 win at Vermont today.

Dartmouth (4-7-2) outshot Vermont (2-15), 21-4 in the contest and took seven corner kicks to the Cats' three. The Big Green took a 4-0 lead before halftime and kept the goals coming in the second for its highest scoring output since a 7-0 win over Cornell in 1998.

Seniors Melisa Krnjaic (Washington, D.C.) and Peyton Tata (Virginia Beach, Va.) led the way with two goals each, while classmate Katie Davis (San Marino, Calif.) added two assists.

"This was a good team win and felt like a complete squad performance," said head coach Angie Hind. "We wanted to come out strong and did just that with early goals. The past two games we played really well and just had not been able to get the win we deserved so today it was nice to not only get the quality performance, but also the win."

Fittingly, 19 players saw action in win while amassing a team total of 19 points on seven goals and five assists. All three goalkeepers on the roster played and junior starter Colleen Hogan (Houston, Texas) earned the win with a first-half shutout and one save. Classmate Anna Chinco (Sacramento, Calif.) played most of the second half with a one save shutout before rookie Sam Fearer (Mesa, Ariz.) closed out the final nine minutes in her first collegiate appearance.

Dartmouth got on the board in just the fifth minute of play when when Krnjaic took a feed from Libby Hamlin (Vernon, Conn.) and fired to the low right corner past Vermont's Alyssa Kelly.

The Big Green did not strike again for another 20 minutes, but it was Krnajic with a second score in the 25^th minute. Vermont's Kelly misplayed a passback from the defense and Krnjaic pounced on it to put her team ahead 2-0.

Tata got in on the act late in the first half, scoring twice within a two-minute span, both with assists from her classmate Davis. Tata one-timed a cross from Davis for the 3-0 lead in the 40^th minute and then fired to the low left corner off a thru ball from Davis in the 42^nd to give the Green a 4-0 halftime lead.

The Big Green kept the pressure on in the second and scored its next two goals off long bombs. Aurelia Solomon (Washington, D.C.) scored her second long-range goal of the season when she converted a free kick from 30 yards out to the upper left corner in the 57^th minute. Rookie Allison Yeager (N. Potomac, Md.) scored from about the same distance five minutes later when she picked off a Vermont defender and fired one past Sarah Leiby for the 6-0 lead.

Leading scorer freshman Marina Moschitto (Andover, Mass.) closed out the scoring on the day in the 77^th minute with a one-touch volley to the back post. It was an all-freshman goal as her classmates, Ari Kenyon (Hanover, Mass.) and Caitlin Burke (Duxbury, Mass.) were credited with assists on passes leading to the goal. Kenyon and Burke both earned their first collegiate points.

Dartmouth takes the momentum from this win, which snapped a four-game winless streak, into an Ivy showdown at first-place Columbia this Saturday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m.