Box Score ST. DAVIDS (PA) –
Elisha Taney scored twice as the Delaware Valley College women's soccer team traveled to perennial Freedom Conference power Eastern University and notched a 3-1 victory, its first ever over the Eagles.
The result marked the second road and conference for the Aggies this week as they took down Wilkes University in a 2-1, come-from-behind contest on Thursday. Saturday's win came against an Eastern team that has won four of the last six Freedom championships.
Delaware Valley now sits at 2-1-1 in Freedom play (5-8-2 overall) and in third place with seven points and three conference games remaining. Misericordia University and DeSales University are tied atop the standings with nine points while a trio of teams are behind the Aggies with three points and 1-1 records (many teams are slated to play later today). The top four teams at the end of the season will earn a trip to the Freedom Conference tournament.
It was the Eagles (4-11, 1-3 Freedom) who got on the board first with 30:06 to play in the first half when Emily Cole fed Emily Rouquemore for her third tally of the season and the 1-0 advantage.
Delaware Valley answered with just 2:58 to go before the end of the half when it earned a corner kick that
Karla Keler sent into the box and
Shayna Schaeffer headed home from six yards out. It was Schaeffer's second goal of the season and the two teams went into the break knotted at one apiece.
Taney took over in the second half with her team-leading, fifth and sixth goals of the season. Her first tally came off a loose ball scramble in the box that she was able to find and deposit in the net with 35:48 still to play in regulation. In the 76th minute, she took a beautiful lob pass in the box from
Mary Taylor and flicked a header from 10 yards out over the keeper and in for the 3-1 score and lead the Aggies would not relinquish.
Eastern outshot Delaware Valley, 17-9, in the contest.
Kelly Quinn made five stops for the win.
The Aggies' final three games will all come against Freedom opponents. They will host DeSales this Tuesday, October 21 at 3:30 before traveling to King's College next Saturday, October 25. The final game of the season will be at home against FDU-Florham the following Saturday.
