Bulldogs Erupt for Nine Goals in Win over Wheelock

Senior Gina Locke put the exclamation point on a 9-0 win over Wheelock College on Sunday.

Box Score

BOX SCORE

Boston, MA, (September 6, 2009) – The DeSales University women's soccer team got its first win of the season in grand fashion on Sunday afternoon, defeating Wheelock College (MA), 9-0, in a non-conference contest in the second game of its weekend trip to the Boston area.

The Bulldogs (1-2 overall) scored seven times in the first half to blow the game open and out-shot Wheelock (0-2 overall), 29-6 for the game in the win. Senior Nicole Pietrobon (Allentown, PA/Allentown Central Catholic) started the scoring with the first two goals of the game on assists from freshman Tori Kinek (Blandon, PA/Fleetwood) on the first one and junior Amanda Ziegler (Aston, PA/Cardinal O'Hara) and freshman Jordan DeMatto (Allentown, PA/Allentown Central Catholic) on the second one.

Nicole's sister, freshman Christina Pietrobon (Allentown, PA/Allentown Central Catholic), then got in the act scoring the next goal on an assist by sophomore Amanda Fink (Nazareth, PA/Nazareth) and junior Jena Meaney (Staten Island, NY/St. Joseph Hill Academy) scored to make it 4-0. Freshman Regina Kessler (Whitehall, PA/Allentown Central Catholic) followed suit with the next two goals that included assists from DeMatto and senior Katie Halpin (Bethlehem, PA/Notre Dame) and sophomore Haley Vollmer (Hamburg, PA/Hamburg) scored unassisted to finish off the first-half barrage.

In the second half, Halpin scored off a feed from N. Pietrobon and senior Gina Locke (Gardner, MA/Gardner) notched her first tally of the year at the 79:33 mark to finish the scoring in the game. Sophomore Melissa Millili (Deptford, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) made three saves to earn her first shutout of the season in the win.

DeSales returns to action on Thursday, September 7^th when they travel to Muhlenberg College for a non-conference game beginning at 7:00 pm.

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