Bridget Lynch Hat Trick Helps Lasell to 4-1 Win over Emmanuel

NEWTON, Mass. (10/2/13) – The Lasell College women's soccer team won their fourth straight match, defeating Emmanuel College 4-1 on Wednesday afternoon at Taylor Field. Lasell improved to 7-2 on the season and remained perfect in Great Northeast Athletic Conference play at 4-0. Emmanuel dropped to 4-6-2 for the 2013 season while sliding to 2-1-1 in GNAC contests.

Bridget Lynch (Dover, N.H.) netted a hat-trick for Lasell, pushing her season goal tally to 15, and Melissa Leonard (N. Brookfield, Mass.) scored her third goal of the year for the Lasers. Courtney Freadman (Richmond, Mass.) tallied the Saints goal, her third of the season.

Leah Pappalardo (Whitman, Mass.) made three saves while earning the win in net for the Lasers, while Abaigeal Thivierge (Bennington, Vt.) took the loss in goal for Emmanuel despite making nine saves on the afternoon.

Lasell pressed the visitors from the opening minutes creating four quality chances in the first ten minutes of action but were unable to convert any of those chances. Emmanuel settled into the match creating a pair of chances of their own as Katelyn Fink (Sanford, Maine) saw one shot sail wide and a second chance picked out of the air by the Lasers net-minder Pappalardo.

Lasell got on the board first when Bridget Lynch pushed the ball up the right flank before striking a service that found an unmarked Leonard on the back post. Leonard calmly finished the pass to give Lasell a 1-0 lead in the 30^th minute of play.

Bridget Lynch pushed the hosts' advantage to 2-0 in the 39^th minute when she touched the ball past a pair of Emmanuel defenders before slipping the ball past the Saints keeper. Lasell took a 2-0 lead into the half, using a 15-4 advantage in shots to control the action.

Lasell claimed a 3-0 lead in the 57^th minute when Arianna DiOrio (Revere, Mass.) drove the end-line and lofted a cross that found the head of a diving Bridget Lynch before settling into the back of the net.

Emmanuel's Courtney Freadman made it a 3-1 game in the 77^th minute, out-working a pair of Lasell defenders for possession and touching the ball beyond them before tucking a shot under a diving Pappalardo for her third goal of the season.

Bridget Lynch added her third goal of the season in the 87^th minute, tallying from the penalty spot to create to final 4-1 margin.

Lasell will return to action on Saturday October 5^th when they host the University of St. Jospeh's (Conn.) at 1:00 p.m. while Emmanuel will resume their campaign on Saturday October 5^th as well when they visit Norwich University for a 7:00 p.m. match under the lights.