Big second half lifts women’s soccer to win

Aliza Van Leesten had one goal and one assist Sunday. (Dean Denis Photography

WATERVILLE, Maine — The Colby College women’s soccer team exploded for four goals in the second half to turn a 1-0 halftime lead into a 5-0 rout over University of Maine at Farmington in non-conference play Sunday.

The Mules are 2-3-1 overall heading in Wednesday’s 4 p.m. home game with University of Southern Maine. Maine-Farmington fell to 2-5-1 overall and will play at Colby-Sawyer College on Saturday at 3:30 p.m.

 

Colby improves to 23-0 against the Beavers, but the game was tight for the first half. Catherine Fraser took a pass from Ally Ingraham, turned to shoot, and fired a shot into the corner of the net for the lone first-half goal.

 

The Mules scored four goals in the final 22:40, with the first from Katherine Gillespie on a rebound. Aliza Van Leesten took the original shot and it was saved by UMF goalkeeper Sam Hatch.

 

Van Leesten scored 1:50 later when Laura Arnold pushed a ball forward. Arnold also had the assist on Colby’s fourth goal when her shot went off the post and Emily Martin was there for the rebound. Arnold then closed out the scoring off a steal with just 3:42 to play.

 

Ashley Conley made two saves to earn her first collegiate shutout for Colby, which had a 32-3 shot advantage. Hatch stopped 14 shots for the Beavers.

 

Colby 5, Maine-Farmington 0

UMF     0#0—0

Colby    1#4—5

 

Scoring summary

1st half

C: Catherine Fraser (Ally Ingraham), 13:38

2nd half

C: Katherine Gillespie (Aliza Van Leesten), 67:20

C: Aliza Van Leesten (Laura Arnold), 69:10

C: Emily Martin (Laura Arnold), 79:48

C: Laura Arnold, 86:18

 

Shots: UMF 3, Colby 32. Corner kicks: UMF 0, Colby 4. Goalies: Sam Hatch (UMF, 90:00, 5 GA, 14 saves); Ashley Conley (Colby, 90:00, 0 GA, 2 saves).