By Melissa Barracado Staff writer
The Susquehanna women’s soccer team fell to Moravian at 2-0 on Oct. 29 on the road. The loss closed out the River Hawks’ regular season at 12- 5-0 and 4-3-0 in Landmark Conference games.
Susquehanna finished the regular season tied for third in the conference with Catholic and Elizabethtown.
Since all three teams had the same record against the remaining teams in the conference, a goal differential tie-breaker pushed Catholic ahead to third place as the Cardinals had a plus-one goal differential.
Susquehanna earned fourth place in the conference thanks to its goal differential of zero and Elizabethtown in fifth with a minus-one goal differential.
The River Hawks outshot the Greyhounds 10-7 in their final regular season game.
Senior goalkeeper Jordyn Slocum had three saves.
The Greyhounds had two corner kicks to Susquehanna’s one.
Senior defender Alex Edelman, sophomore forward Emily Sullivan and freshman defender Katie Beluch led Susquehanna in shots at two apiece. Four different players added the remaining shots.
“[Moravian is] a very good team defensively,” Head Coach Nick Hoover said. “They make it very difficult to score on them in the run of play.”
It was not until the 79th minute that Moravian broke the tie to make the score 1-0 for the Greyhounds.
“After we gave up that goal, we knew we needed to score, so we basically sent almost our entire team forward in an attempt to tie the game. Of course, that weakened us defensively and Moravian did a good job of exploiting that,” Hoover said.
Almost 10 minutes after the first goal, the Greyhounds scored again to secure the win.
Sullivan had a chance to put a point on the board for Susquehanna late in the second half, but an excellent save from Moravian keeper Jessica Lawton kept the shutout going.
Lawton easily handled the River Hawks’ four shots to provide insurance in the Greyhounds win.
Hoover was still happy with how the team performed throughout the entire game despite giving up two goals.
“Even though we lost, I don’t think there is a lot more we could have done as far as preparation for the game,” Hoover said.
Susquehanna saw its season come to an end on Nov. 1 as the River Hawks fell 1-0 in overtime to the top-seed Scranton in a Landmark Conference semifinal.
The River Hawks closed out their season at 12-6-0 overall.
