Marcoccio nets double, including
winner with 36-seconds to play
RINDGE, N.H. (September 14,
2005) - Senior Andrea Marcoccio (Warwick,
R.I./Pilgrim) scored two goals, including the
match-winner with 36-seconds left in regulation, to lead Assumption
College, ranked No. 9 in this week's National Soccer Coaches
Association of America (NSCAA)/adidas Division II poll, to a 3-2
victory over No. 2-ranked Franklin Pierce in a key Northeast-10
Conference women's soccer match tonight at Sodexho Field.
The loss was the first for Franklin
Pierce on Sodexho Field in ten matches (8-1-1) as well as its first
to Assumption College in 19 meetings (18-1). The victory was the
third-straight for the Greyhounds on the road against a team ranked
in the NSCAA/adidas Top 25.
Franklin Pierce has gone winless in
its first two home matches (0-1-1) for the first time since a
six-match winless streak at home to start the 1989 campaign. The
Ravens have gone winless in two-straight at home for the first time
since back-to-back home draws to Merrimack College (1-1) and Bryant
University (1-1) in 2002.
Marcoccio's winner came during a
scramble in the Franklin Pierce penalty area as sophomore
Ashley Hogan (South Hadley, Mass./South
Hadley) drove into the area and had a pass deflected
towards the center. Franklin Pierce junior goalkeeper
Linnea Authier (East Longmeadow, Mass./East
Longmeadow) charged off her line to clear it, but the
ball found Marcoccio for an easy tip-in towards an open net at
89:24.
The winner came less than three
minutes after Franklin Pierce fought back from a 2-0 first half
deficit when senior All-American Sonya Hughes
(Balbriggan, Ireland) curled a free kick 22-yards out
from the left channel into the upper right corner with 3:06
remaining in regulation.
Senior All-American
Laura Hislop (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
cut the Greyhounds halftime advantage in half 10:36 into the second
stanza when she pounced on a loose ball and fired it into the upper
right corner from the left channel.
Assumption held a 2-0 lead before
the match was 24 minutes old. Marcoccio put the Greyhounds on the
board 13:25 into the match with a penalty kick driven to the right
side of Authier. Marcoccio was awarded the penalty when Authier
shoved her with her back to goal during a scramble off a corner
kick.
Assumption doubled the lead when a
long pass from the right flank by senior Amy Ryan
(Northboro, Mass./Algonquin) was steered into an open
net by Franklin Pierce freshman back Rebecca Westbury
(Northbridge, Mass./Northbridge) for an own goal at
23:55.
Assumption sophomore
Lauren Matysiak (Holden, Mass./Wachusett
Regional), the reigning NE-10 Goalkeeper of the Year,
finished with five saves, while Authier did not register a save as
Franklin Pierce out-shot the Greyhounds, 14-4 (9-1 in the first
half).
Franklin Pierce (4-1-1, 2-1-1
NE-10) is back in action on Saturday when it visits Saint Anselm
College at 2 p.m. Assumption (5-0, 3-0 NE-10) travels to American
International College on Sunday at 1 p.m.
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