Welcome totals career-high ten
points with career-best four goals
RINDGE, N.H. (September 30, 2002) -
Sophomore Meghan Welcome (Haverhill,
Mass./Haverhill) totaled a career-high ten points to
lead Franklin Pierce, ranked No. 2 in this week's National Soccer
Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)/adidas Division II poll, to
a 10-0 victory over American International College in Northeast-10
Conference women's soccer action at Crystal Field this afternoon.
Welcome's ten points was just two
shy of the school record 12 set by Pauliina Miettinen in a 1998
match against University at Albany. Welcome accumulated the total
with a career-high four goals (one shy of the school record set
four times, twice by Miettinen) and two assists.
Welcome opened the scoring in the
25th minute when a long pass by senior Anumari Ylesmaki (Vantaa,
Finland) sent her in one-on-one with AIC goalkeeper Nicole Kobjack
(Springfield, Mass./Central) where she tucked the ball into the
lower right corner.
Ylesmaki added a goal and two
assists on the afternoon for Franklin Pierce, while senior
Andrea Caesar (Visby, Sweden) chipped in
a goal and an assist. Junior Jillian Tente (Wakefield,
R.I./South Kingstown) netted her first goal of the
season to round out the first half scoring as the Ravens staked out
a 4-0 halftime lead.
Franklin Pierce sophomore
Laura King (Bridgewater,
Mass./Bridgewater-Raynham) netted her first career
goal, assisted by classmate Sarah von Colditz (Lake
Oswego, Ore./Lake Oswego) for her first career point.
Junior Stephanie Hartenstein (Chelmsford,
Mass./Chelmsford) and freshman Elizabeth
Brunton (Birch Harbor, Maine/Sumner) also netted
markers for Franklin Pierce.
Junior goalkeeper Aase
Kibsgaard (Korgen, Norway) totaled two saves in
66-minutes of action and combined with sophomore Keeley
Rafter (Gloucester, Mass./Gloucester) for the seventh
shutout of the season for Franklin Pierce.
Kobjack posted three stops for AIC
in first half action, while senior Heather Garrow made five second
half saves.
Franklin Pierce (8-0, 7-0 NE-10)
returns to the pitch on Wednesday when it hosts No. 18 Merrimack
College in a battle of the top two teams in both the Northeast-10
Conference and New England region at 3:30 p.m. American
International (2-5, 2-5 NE-10) hosts Saint Anselm on Wednesday.
#2 Franklin Pierce 10,
American International 0
| American International (2-5, 2-5 NE-10)
| 0
| 0
| -
| 0
|
| Franklin Pierce (8-0, 7-0 NE-10)
| 4
| 6
| -
| 10
|
Scoring
Summary: FP: Meghan Welcome (Anumari Ylesmaki), 24:07; FP:
Andrea Caesar (Martta Makila), 35:02; FP: Welcome (Ylesmaki),
37:36; FP: Jillian Tente (Welcome), 43:50; FP: Welcome (Caesar),
50:00l; FP: Ylesmaki (Welcome), 52:14; FP: Welcome (Kamille
Rosenfalck), 55:50; FP: Elizabeth Brunton (unassisted), 66:51; FP:
Stephanie Hartenstein (Heather Wysor), 76:48; FP: Laura King (Sarah
von Colditz), 82:17.
Goalkeepers: AIC: Nicole Kobjack (45:00) three
saves, Heather Garrow (45:00) five saves; FP: Aase Kibsgaard
(66:00), two saves, Keeley Rafter (24:00), no saves
Shots: FP: 37, AIC: 4
