BETHANY, W.Va. – A day after the Geneva College men's soccer team traveled to Bethany and defeated the Bison 4-0, the women's soccer team followed suit with a dominating 3-0 victory over Bethany on Wednesday afternoon. Geneva improved to 8-6 overall, 3-2 in the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC), while Bethany fell to 1-12-1, 1-4 in the PAC.
Geneva got on the board in the 31
st minute when senior
Erica Sumner (Beaver Falls, Pa./Beaver County Christian) ran onto a ball sent over the top by freshman
Lydia Beare (Mansfield, Ohio/Mansfield Christian), and she scored past the Bethany keeper from 15 yards out to give the Golden Tornadoes a 1-0 lead. That's where things stayed going into the halftime break, with Geneva holding a 7-1 advantage in shots.
Freshman
Katherine Estep (Dublin, Pa./Pennridge) doubled the Geneva lead early in the second half. She received a pass from Sumner in the 51
st minute and scored from inside the box to make it 2-0. It didn't take long after Estep's goal for junior
Erin Houser (Lititz, Pa./Warwick) to get onto the scoreboard, as she added to the lead just three minutes later with another Golden Tornado goal off an assist from junior
April Mann (Colorado Springs, Colo./Evangelical Christian Academy), increasing Geneva's lead to 3-0. The Golden Tornadoes then closed out the victory from there.
"It's always good to go on the road and pick up a conference victory," said Head Coach
Linda Sumner. "Getting the first goal was important, and it allowed us to play from ahead. We're getting contributions from a number of people right now offensively, which makes us a tougher team to defend. This hopefully gives us a little bit of momentum heading into a key game this Friday against W&J."
Geneva finished with a 15-5 advantage in shots, including a 9-1 edge in shots on goal. Houser finished with a team-high four shots, including three shots on goal. Senior goalkeeper
Danielle Lincoln (Milton, Pa./Milton Area) had a fairly quiet day, making the only save she was called on for, to pick up her PAC-leading sixth shutout of the season.
The Golden Tornadoes return to action on Friday when they host W&J at 5:00 p.m. in the final home regular season match of the season for Geneva.
Geneva College is a Christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to God and neighbor. Offering over 115 traditional undergraduate majors and programs, fully online Adult Degree Programs and high-demand graduate degrees, Geneva's programs are recognized for their high quality. U.S. News & World Report ranks Geneva as a Top Three Best Value Regional University with one of the top engineering programs in the nation. Adhering to the truth of Scripture, a Geneva education is grounded in God's Word as well as in a core curriculum designed to prepare students vocationally to think, write and communicate well in today's world.
