ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- Lydia Lawson and Janelle Barna each scored for the second consecutive game to start the season and the Elizabethtown College women's soccer team put up another four-spot on the scoreboard as they shut out Penn State Harrisburg Tuesday evening at Ira R. Herr Field in their home opener. Goalies Trinity Soto and Christine Fox did not have to make a save in the combined shutout.

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Elizabethtown (2-0) put pressure on the Lions from the get-go. The Jays had two quality chances in the opening ten minutes, but Penn State Harrisburg (1-2) goalie Hannah Williams denied shots from Barna and Angela Carcella to keep it 0-0. Though the Lions had some early possession, the Blue Jays were able to take control of the game and maintain that early pressure.

Gabi Brown and Alli Lasky worked with one another in the 23rd minute down the left side of the box. Brown sent her junior teammate into the box and Lasky lobbed a ball over the keeper toward the back post. Lawson read the play and nodded the ball into the open net for her second of the season and first of the game.

E-town kept at it, but Williams wasn't allowing a second goal of the half. The Lions trailed 1-0 at the intermission.

Lawson recorded her brace with her second of the night in the 55th minute. Eight minutes later, Barna and Marissa Lapinsky combined to get down the right sideline. Lapinsky stopped, turned, and fed the ball back to Barna, who ran onto it and struck a low, driving shot toward the far post that ducked inside the woodwork and into the net for her third of the year.



Lasky finished off the scoring in the 90th minute with a goal from almost 25 yards out that sailed over the outstretched arms of the goalie and struck netting.

Soto played the first 73 minutes for Elizabethtown before Fox came in for the final 17. Williams, who made a game-high eight saves for the Lions, came off after 67 minutes. Izabel Garcia played the remaining 23 for PSH.

The Blue Jays will play at Gettysburg on Saturday, September 7, at 7 p.m.