Box Score Sept. 28, 2013
Box Score
The Georgia Gwinnett women’s soccer team used six different goal scorers to rush past NCAA Division II foe Georgia Southwestern on Saturday afternoon at the Grizzly Soccer Complex in Lawrenceville, tallying a 7-0 victory.
The win is GGC’s biggest of the year and improved the squad to 7-2-1 overall and 4-1 at home.
The Grizzlies amassed a 22-3 shot advantage over the Hurricanes, who fell to 0-8 with the loss. GGC tallied four scores in the first half and added three more in the second while putting 12 total shots on goal.
“It was a great game out there today all around,” said Grizzlies head coach Domenic Martelli. “We got a lot of players into the game and we were really able to build a lot of possessions offensively.”
The Grizzlies got on the board early with two scores in the first 15 minutes, from Jocelyn Baker and Amanda Dale. Dale converted on a well-placed free kick from Kelsey Griswold, charging in and knocking the floater past GSW goalkeeper Kendal Baskin.
Georgia Gwinnett added scores from Mary Vernetti and Blake DiSpigna before halftime, taking a 4-0 lead into the break.
Three second-half goals in a five minute span put the game away for GGC. First, Nikki LeFevre connected in the 60th minute before Bethany Johnson’s near 40-yard strike made it 6-0 just two minutes later.
The Grizzlies added their seventh score after a Hurricanes miscue ended in an own-goal with GGC continuing the pressure.
Martelli’s squad has scored 16 times in just the last three games, building a 30-9 scoring edge over the opposition on the season.
Georgia Gwinnett, which received national votes in the NAIA Women’s Soccer Coaches’ Poll this past week for the first time in program history, is off until Oct. 8, when it continues its three-game homestand against Reinhardt at 7 p.m. at the Grizzly Soccer Complex.
