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Release Date: 09/03/2008

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LHU Soccer - Women

Lady Eagles fall to Gannon in PSAC West opener
 

Heidi Weller scored for the Lady Eagles today.

ERIE, Pa. – The Lock Haven University women’s soccer team (1-1, 0-1 PSAC West) fell to Gannon University (1-0, 1-0 PSAC West) 4-2 on the road today in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Western Division opener for both teams.

The Lady Eagles got their two goals off the feet of Kellie Wieger (Mifflintown, Pa./Juniata) and Heidi Weller (Mifflinburg, Pa./Mifflinburg).

The first half of play came to furious end as four goals were scored in the last six minutes of action before Gannon ultimately took at 3-1 lead into halftime.

Gannon opened the scoring in the 40th minute as Amanda Sharbaugh found the back of the net.

Less than a minute later however Lock Haven would knot the game back at 1-1 as Wieger scored an unassisted goal.

Gannon made it 4-1 in the 60th minute.

Weller cut the hosts lead to two goals with just over three minute left on the game clock as she knocked home an unassisted tally.

Rookie goalie Hayley Zinn (Wyomissing, Pa./Wyomissing) played well in net for LHU. She went the distance between the pipes making 12 saves.

LHU head coach Heather Davis was very pleased with her teams effort today, saying that were some really great individual performances.

Along with Wieger and Zinn, Davis was very pleased with the play of sophomore defender Alissa Gamelier (Cranberry Township, Pa./Seneca Valley).

“We had some great individual performances and solid team play today,” Davis said.

The Lady Eagles are back in action on Saturday, Sept. 6 at 2 p.m. when they travel to Indiana (Pa.) University.

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