MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME WOMEN’S SOCCER

Friday, October 7, 2011

Clean Harbors Stadium, Buzzards Bay, Mass.

FINAL:              FITCHBURG STATE 7, MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME 0

                                                                                    1          2                      Total

Fitchburg State (10-1, 4-0 MASCAC)                               4          3          -              7

Massachusetts Maritime (1-9, 0-4 MASCAC)                   0          0          -              0

SCORING SUMMARY

FIT:       Carissa Kennedy (Kayla Bridges)                                                           12:57 1^st

FIT:       Katie Hayward (Kennedy, Sierra Santos)                                     14:08 1^st

FIT:       Kennedy (Bridges)                                                                     24:18 1^st

FIT:       Erica Graves (Jessica Sullivan)                                                  43:14 1^st

FIT:       Katrina Marrone (Hayward, Bridges)                                            46:36 2^nd

FIT:       Kimberly Carroll (Unassisted)                                                     63:39 2^nd

FIT:       Carroll (Graves)                                                                         68:54 2^nd

GOALIE SAVES

FIT:      Jillian Kirouac—2, Kelsey Ford—4

MMA:   Emily Welsh—13

BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. --  Senior Carissa Kennedy (Somerset, Mass.) netted a pair of goals and an assist to lead Fitchburg State to its 10^th straight victory with a 7-0 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference women’s soccer triumph over Massachusetts Maritime Friday evening at Clean Harbors Stadium.

Kennedy collected both of her goals in the opening 24-plus minutes of play for the visiting Falcons (10-1, 4-0 MASCAC), as she converted a pair of feeds from freshman Kayla Bridges (Foxboro, Mass.) in the 13^th and 25^th minutes of action while helping set up senior Katie Hayward’s (Townsend, Mass.) in the 15^th minute of play.  Senior Erica Graves (Feeding Hills, Mass.) tallied with 1:46 remaining in the opening half to give Fitchburg State a 4-0 lead at the break, and senior Katrina Marrone (Springfield, Mass.) extended that margin to 5-0 just 1:36 after intermission on feeds from Hayward and Bridges.  Sophomore Kimberly Carroll (Tewksbury, Mass.) closed out the scoring for the visitors with a pair of goals in just over a five minute span, as she tallied an unassisted marker in the 64^th minute before converting a Graves feed in the 69^th minute of action.

Bridges finished with three assists in the triumph for Fitchburg State, which also received single helpers from freshmen Sierra Santos (Lakeville, Mass.) and Jessica Sullivan (Milton, Mass.).  Sophomore Jillian Kirouac (Leominster, Mass.) picked up her 10^th win of the season in goal for the Falcons with a pair of first half saves, while freshman Kelsey Ford (Franconia, N.H.) made four stops over the final 45 minutes of action for the visitors.  Senior Emily Welsh (Shelton, Conn.) made 13 saves in net in the setback for the host Buccaneers (1-9, 0-4 MASCAC) as Fitchburg State outshot Massachusetts Maritime by a 30-6 margin for the contest.

Massachusetts Maritime hosts Pine Manor in a non-league outing on Wednesday evening at Clean Harbors Stadium beginning at 7:00 p.m., while Fitchburg State hosts Wellesley in a non-league match on Tuesday evening in Fitchburg, Mass. that also begins at 7:00 p.m.