The Mount Ida College women's soccer team continues to slide falling to visiting Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) powerhouse Emerson College 3-0 on Monday afternoon in Newton, Massachusetts. The Mustangs drop their fourth consecutive loss and their third in a row in conference play. Mount Ida falls to 1-4-1 overall, 0-3-0 in the GNAC while the Lions continue to dominate in league play with a record of 4-2-0 and a perfect 3-0-0 in the conference.
After 37 minutes of stagnant play and no offensive opportunities for either squad, the visitors struck to take a 1-0 advantage. After a blocked shot, Lion junior Lindsay D'Andrea (Medford, NJ/Shaunee) caught Mustang goalkeeper Meghan Begins (Jericho, VT/Jericho) out of position off a bounding ball in front of the net and volleyed it into the left side. The rest of the first half would tick away with the visitors leading 1-0.
The Mustangs started the second stanza with a very solid opportunity to tie the score. Junior captain Becky Tisbert (Cambridge, VT/Lamoille Union) was moved from sweeper to striker setting up a perfect cross to freshman Jamie Labrie (Southampton, MA/Hampshire Regional) on the right side of the box. Labrie, who had a one-on-one with Lion senior goalkeeper Shayna Reich (West Hills, MA/El Camino Real), fired a shot towards the net going just wide. The teams headed into the locker room with the visitors leading 1-0.
Emerson added two more scores before the contest came to an end. Emerson sophomore Genna Opatut (Freehold, NJ/Freehold) flicked in the Lions second goal of the contest off a pass from senior captain Katie Franzeo (Henderson, NV/Foothill) for the 2-0 advantage in the 66th minute.
D'Andrea notched her second goal of the contest of an hammered shot outside the 18 yard box that deflected off the bottom of the cross bar and caromed into the left side of the net past Begins for the 3-0 victory over the Mustangs.
Mount Ida goalkeeper Begins denied eight Lion shots during the contest while Emerson's Reich didn't see much action stopping only two shots. The Lions outshot the Mustangs 25-5.
The Mustangs will travel to GNAC member Albertus Magnus College this coming Wednesday starting at 4:00 p.m.