CAMDEN, N.J. -- The Elizabethtown College women's soccer team got off to a flying start after a 4-1 win at Rutgers-Camden to kick off the 2019 season Friday night.
Janelle Barna scored once in each half and
Lydia Lawson and
Leigh Ungerleider added goals for the Blue Jays in the win.
Trinity Soto recorded her first career victory for E-town.
It was Rutgers-Camden (0-1) that threatened first, testing the Jays' freshman goalie in the second minute, but Soto made the save to keep it scoreless in the early going. It was one of her five saves in the game.
Senior
Lydia Lawson notched her first of the season in the 14th minute, latching on to a loose ball in the box and sent a rising shot into the back of the net for her first of the year that gave Elizabethtown (1-0) a 1-0 advantage.
Soto denied RUC nine seconds after the restart and then later on in the 27th minute to maintain the one-goal lead for E-town. Barna then doubled it in the 34th minute with her first of the game, minutes after
Samantha Wanamaker ringed one off the post.
The Scarlet Raptors got one back a few minutes later on a header from Breana Winder. The score remained 2-1 for the Jays at the half.
It only took five and a half minutes after the halftime whistle for Elizabethtown to add its third of the game. Ungerleider had a tap-in at the doorstep of the left post after Lawson's cross from the right side found the sophomore for her first of the year.
Soto made two more saves in the span of 43 seconds in the 64th and 65th minutes. Moments later, it was Scarlet Raptors' goalie Natalie Eberhardt denying a pair of chances by the Blue Jays.
Barna put the game away in the 82nd minute with a free kick goal from about 25 yards out that found netting, her second of the contest.
Elizabethtown didn't allow a shot on goal over the last 25 minutes as the defense put the clamps down.
The Blue Jays will play their first home game of the season on Tuesday, September 3, when Penn State Harrisburg visits Ira R. Herr Field for a 7 p.m. kickoff.
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