MANCHESTER, Ind. – Freshman
Brianna Maggard came off the bench to score two goals Sunday and led the Kenyon College women's soccer team to a convincing 4-0 win over the host Manchester University Spartans. The goals were the first two of Maggard's collegiate career.
The Kenyon offense, which started the season with just one goal in its first three games, has erupted for nine goals in its last three games. The four goals against the Spartans were a season high and the Ladies left the two-day Raven-Spartan Classic with a pair of wins and plus-six goal differential.
Kenyon, now with an even 3-3-0 record, stormed out of the gate and rattled off six shots within the game's first 13 minutes. At the 13:30 mark, Maggard subbed in and made an immediate impact. Not long after her entry, Kenyon took back-to-back corner kicks and on the second one Maggard scored the Ladies' first goal off an assist from fellow freshman
Meredith Rogers.
That first goal was scored in the game's 17th minute. The second goal, also scored by Maggard, hit the back of the Manchester net in the 39th minute. This time around, Maggard went the unassisted route and gave the Ladies, who had 16-3 advantage in shots, a 2-0 lead at halftime.
Things stayed on script in the second half as the Ladies outshot the Spartans 18-5 and booted in two more goals. Those two Kenyon second-half scores were packaged within a three-minute span. At the 71:29 mark, sophomore
Gillian Blackwell registered her first goal of the season and was followed up by classmate
Emma Klug, who scored off an assist from
Claudia Brown at the 73:45 mark. Klug's goal, like Maggard's, was the first of her Kenyon career.
Overall, Kenyon piled up 34 shots to Manchester's eight. The Ladies also attempted 11 corner kicks, while the Spartans took just three.
Between the pipes, Kenyon senior goalkeeper
Alissa Poolpol made five saves and notched her second shutout victory of the season. Manchester used two different goalkeepers who combined for 11 saves as the Spartans saw their record slide to 2-3-0.
In Sunday's game at Manchester University, Kenyon freshman Brianna Maggard came off the bench to
score her first two collegiate goals and led the Ladies to a 4-0 thumping of the host Spartans.