Shona
Franklin scores game-winner; Amanda Panaro
scores twice
BOXSCORE
RINDGE, N.H. (October 2, 2010) – The
19th-ranked Franklin Pierce University women's soccer
team blew a 2-0 lead midway through the second half, but managed to
score two goals late to rally for a 4-2 win over UMass-Lowell on
Saturday afternoon at Sodexo Field in Rindge. The Ravens won their
third straight to improve to 7-1-1 overall and 5-1-1 in the
Northeast-10 Conference. Lowell dipped to 3-5-1 and 3-4 in league
play.
UMass-Lowell scored twice midway through the second half to knot
the score at 2-2, but the Ravens did not falter and would
eventually pull off the thrilling win. In the 86th
minute, senior midfielder Shona Franklin (Birmingham,
England) took a pass from Amanda Panaro (Rockland,
Mass.) at the top-left corner of the box and ripped a shot
that beat the Lowell goalkeeper to lift the Ravens to a 3-2
advantage. It was Franklin's fourth of the season and the assist
for Panaro was her fifth point of the afternoon as she scored
Franklin Pierce's first two goals of the game in the first half. It
was also the third-straight game that Franklin scored a goal.
Just for safe measure, freshman midfielder Jannice
Sundqvist (Hamosand, Sweden) scored in the game's
final minute to put the game out reach and give Franklin Pierce the
two-goal victory. It was Sundqvist's third goal in the last two
games, as she scored twice in last Sunday's win over Assumption
which allowed her to be named the NE-10 Rookie of the Week. Senior
midfielder Snezana
Stojkovic (Vitojevci, Serbia) assisted on Sundqvist's
tally, and was her second of the game as she assisted on Panaro's
first goal earlier in the contest.
Despite the loss, Lowell out-shot the Ravens by a count of 13-7,
including totaling nine in the second half. Despite the low shot
total, Franklin Pierce did manage to put six shots on goal,
including their first two, which came in the game's first 18
minutes and both went for goals.
Panaro scored her first goal of the game in the eighth minute to
make it 1-0 Ravens. She added her second tally in the
19th minute when she scored off a crossing pass from
Tori
Gikas (Sydney, Australia). The goals for Panaro were
her ninth and 10th of the season.
Keanna Santos and Gia O'Connor scored back-to-back goals in the
62nd and 73rd minutes to pull the River Hawks
even at 2-2 before Franklin Pierce went on its late heroic run.
Franklin Pierce junior goalkeeper Jocelyn Leon (Lenox,
Mass.) made five saves in the contest to earn the win and
run her record to 7-1-1 on the season.
During the game, Franklin Pierce honored the fight against
breast cancer as the team wore various pink items. Donations were
collected and all money will benefit the Norris Cotton Cancer
Center in the Kingsbury Pavilion at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical
Center in Keene.
The Ravens return to action on Tuesday night when they travel to
North Andover, Mass. to face Merrimack at 7 p.m.
For more information on Franklin Pierce women's soccer, please
visit the team's page at athletics.franklinpierce.edu(.) Fans
wishing to follow the program even further can do so by visiting
YouTube (www.youtube.com/franklinpiercesports),
Twitter (www.twitter.com/FPUathletics)
and Facebook (www.facebook.com/franklinpierceathletics).
