Bridget Lynch Tallied Four Times as Lasell Tops JWU, 6-0 in Women's Soccer

NEWTON, Mass. (10/11/14) – The Lasell College women's soccer team kept their unbeaten run in Great Northeast Athletic Conference play alive with a 6-0 defeat of Johnson and Wales University on Saturday afternoon at Taylor Field. The Lasers improved to 9-4 overall and 7-0 in conference play while the Wildcats dropped to 7-7-1 on the year and 3-3-1 in conference action.

Bridget Lynch (Dover, N.H.) scored four times for Lasell, Megan Cullen (Amesbury, Mass.) tallied for the Lasers, while Casey Meissner (Sandwich, Mass.) notched a pair of assists and Molly Masiero (Richmond, Mass.) and Devon Day (Hartland, Vt.) each added a helper in the victory. Sarah LaClair (Belchertown, Mass.) stopped a pair of shots to record the clean sheet in net for Lasell.

 Tori Foster (Honolulu, Hawaii) and Kaitlyn Whalen (Whittier, Calif.) provided the offensive spark for Johnson and Wales with a shot on goal apiece and Alex Place (East Greenwich, R.I.) made five saves for the Wildcats in goal.

Megan Cullen got Lasell on the board in the 23^rd minute when she got on the end of a Devon Day service and finished to give the Lasers a 1-0 lead. In the 30^th minute Bridget Lynch made a run past several JWU defenders and into the box where she was pulled down to earn a penalty which she fired into the side netting for a 2-0 Lasell lead at the break.

A Lasell service into the box in the 55^th minute helped Lasell to a 3-0 lead when a Wildcat defender errantly cleared the ball into the visitors net. Casey Meissner and Bridget Lynch hooked up twice, in the 70^th and 79^th minute as Lasell pushed their lead to 5-0 and Lynch scored her fourth of the match in the 81^st minute when Molly Masiero's through ball sprung the senior who finished the scoring chance for her 16^th goal of the season.

Lasell will host Suffolk on Tuesday October 14^th at 4:00 p.m. while JWU will visit Norwich on Tuesday October 14^th at 7:00 p.m.