DiDomenico Scores School Record Four Goals As Women's Soccer Presents Cabral With First Victory In 7-1 Non-League Triumph At Wheelock
| Final | 1 | 2 | T | |
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Mass. Maritime (1-6) | 3 | 4 | 7 |
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Wheelock (0-6) | 0 | 1 | 1 |
MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME WOMEN’S SOCCER
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Winsor Field, Boston, Mass.
FINAL: MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME 7, WHEELOCK 1
1 2 Total
Massachusetts Maritime (1-6) 3 4 - 7
Wheelock (0-6) 0 1 - 1
SCORING SUMMARY
MMA: Vanessa DiDomenico (Lauren Salem) 22:49 1st
MMA: DiDomenico (Kim Courcy) 33:49 1st
MMA: DiDomenico (Unassisted) 44:18 1st
WHL: Rachel Noiseux (Unassisted) 49:07 2nd
MMA: Jaclyn Labrecque (Janelle Beaulieu) 51:27 2nd
MMA: Salem (Unassisted) 66:09 2nd
MMA: Courcy (Unassisted) 73:29 2nd
MMA: DiDomenico (Courcy) 75:23 2nd
GOALIE SAVES
MMA: Emily Welsh—7
WHL: Alexandra Chiesa—12
BOSTON, Mass. -- Senior Vanessa DiDomenico (Wrentham, Mass.) scored a school-record four goals, while junior Kim Courcy (Warwick, R.I.) added a goal and a pair of assists as Massachusetts Maritime presented Head Coach Ray Cabral with his first victory in a 7-1 non-league college women’s soccer triumph over Wheelock Tuesday evening at Winsor Field.
DiDomenico provided all of the scoring that the visiting Buccaneers (1-6) would need by netting a first half hat trick, as she converted feeds from sophomore Lauren Salem (Westfield, Mass.) in the 23rd minute and from Courcy in the 34th minute before adding an unassisted tally with 42 seconds remaining in the half for a 3-0 Massachusetts Maritime advantage at the break. The host Wildcats (0-6) received an unassisted marker from freshman Rachel Noiseux (Merrimack, N.H.) just 4:07 after intermission to close back to within two at 3-1, but sophomore Jaclyn Labrecque (Sutton, Mass.) regained the Buccaneers’ three-goal edge after converting a pass from junior Janelle Beaulieu (Buzzards Bay, Mass.) just over two minutes later. Salem netted her goal off a corner in the 67th minute to extend Massachusetts Maritime’s lead to 5-1, and Courcy collected her goal in the 74th minute of play with an unassisted tally before setting up DiDomenico’s record-setting fourth marker of the night less than two minutes later to close out the scoring for the contest. DiDomenico topped the previous school single-game scoring mark of three goals set by Stephanie Lee in a 4-0 season opening victory at Becker to begin the 2010 campaign for Massachusetts Maritime, which also tied the school team record for goals in a match that was first set in last year’s match against Wheelock at Clean Harbors Stadium.
Senior Emily Welsh (Shelton, Conn.) picked up her third career victory in goal by making seven saves in the triumph for Massachusetts Maritime, which snapped an 11-match winless skein in the process, while senior Alexandra Chiesa (Medford, Mass.) made 12 stops in the setback for Wheelock as the Buccaneers outshot the Wildcats by a 24-16 margin for the evening in claiming their third win in four series meetings between the two schools.
The victory was Cabral’s first on the collegiate women’s soccer sidelines since 1995, as he posted 92 career triumphs in leading UMass Dartmouth from 1989 through 1995. Cabral now has a combined 166 career victories as a collegiate head coach, including 63 while leading the UMass Dartmouth men’s squad for seven seasons.
Massachusetts Maritime heads to North Adams, Mass. on Saturday afternoon to take on MCLA in a Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference match that begins at 1:00 p.m., while Wheelock travels to Leicester, Mass. on Saturday afternoon to square off with Becker in a New England Collegiate Conference outing that also begins at 1:00 p.m.
