Box Score BROOKVILLE, N.Y. (Oct. 29, 2015) - The Molloy College women's soccer team was silenced by a quick goal in the fourth minute against LIU Post, and the Pioneers went on to collect a 5-0 victory over the Lions Thursday at Pioneer Soccer Park. With the loss, Molloy falls to 6-7-2 and 3-5 in East Coast Conference competition. LIU Post improves to 13-2-2 and 5-1-2 on the season in ECC play.
The game belonged to freshman forward Andrea Huntzinger (Stockholm, Sweden), who scored the game's first goal at the 3:21 mark of the opening half. Huntzinger collected a rebound after a shot by sophomore Klara Berggren (Stockholm, Sweden) was blocked, and the freshman pushed her attempt off the hands of junior keeper
Gabrielle Batista (Hicksville, N.Y.) and into the back of the net. Huntzinger collected her second goal of the game and seventh on the season later in the first half. With three minutes to play, graduate midfielder Gabriella Fuduli (East Meadow, N.Y.) sent a perfect through ball to the Molloy 18-yard box where Huntzinger drew Batista off her back line and chipped a shot over her head and into the net. Huntzinger scored her third goal in the second half to cement the hat trick and take the Lions officially out of the running for postseason play with ten minutes remaining.
LIU Post outshot Molloy 22-9 in the contest, with junior forward
Danielle Valente (South Setauket, N.Y.) leading the maroon and white with three shots. Senior forward
Shannon Murphy (North Babylon, N.Y.) and freshman back
Allie Rainey (Smithtown, N.Y.) each had two shots for the Lions in the loss, while Batista made nine saves in net.
Molloy will conclude the 2015 season by facing Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry on Saturday (Oct. 31) at 12 p.m.
