HAMILTON – An offensive outburst and dominant full-game effort led the Colgate women's soccer team to a 5-0 victory over Army West Point in a key Patriot League battle at Beyer-Small '76 Field Wednesday evening.
 
Colgate got out to a 3-0 lead in the first half and never looked back. Senior Sarah Coy put the Raiders on the board in the 20th minute and followed with a second goal in the second half. Senior Sophi Lederer, first-year Mara Cosentino and sophomore Shannon Pawlak also chipped in goals.
 
The Raiders finished the game with a 25-3 shot advantage and recorded their second shutout of the season.
 
The Raiders controlled the momentum right from the start, ripping seven shots in the opening eight minutes. Two of those opportunities were one-on-one with Army keeper Jordan Cassalia as Cosentino and Lederer both had their shots knocked off the line to keep the game scoreless.
 
Coy was able to convert in the 20th minute when she found a pass from first-year Abby Sotomayor and buried it into the far post to give the Raiders a 1-0 lead.
 
The Raiders doubled their lead eight minutes lead as Coy had a breakaway run and was taken down in the box by the Army keeper. Lederer then converted the penalty kick to put Colgate ahead 2-0 in the 28th minute. Cosentino followed in the 41st minute as she poked a pass from sophomore Nicole Gavin past Cassalia to make it 3-0 Colgate. The Raiders took that lead, as well as a 16-1 shot advantage, into halftime.
 
It continued to be all Colgate in the second half as Coy was able to add to the Raider lead in the 53rd minute. A pass from sophomore Jayne Maccio found Coy at the top of the 18-yard box and the Boca Raton, Fla. native rifled it off the underneath of the crossbar and into the back of the net to stretch Colgate's lead to 4-0.
 
The final Colgate goal of the night came in the 86th minute when another Army foul in the box led to Colgate's second penalty kick of the night. This time, Pawlak converted the attempt to notch her first career goal and secure a 5-0 Raider victory.
 
BOTTOM LINE

• Colgate 5, Army 0

 
WON-LOST RECORDS

• The Raiders improve to 6-7-3 overall and 3-4-0 in the Patriot League.
• Army falls to 4-9-2 on the season and 2-3-2 in league action.
• With the win, Colgate moved into fifth place in the Patriot League standings at 3-4-0. The Raiders play Saturday at Loyola (1-3-3) and Oct. 29 at Lafayette (2-4-1) as the race for tournament qualification heats up.

 
 KEY RAIDER INFO

• Colgate's five goals in a Patriot League game are the most since the Raiders earned a 5-0 victory over Army on Oct. 1, 2014.
• The Raiders match their highest scoring game of the season as Colgate also scored five goals in a 5-1 win over Fairleigh Dickinson on Sept. 1.
• Coy scored her fifth and sixth goals of the season.
• Lederer and Cosentino each recorded their second goals of the year, while Pawlak's was the first of her career.
• Colgate wraps up its regular-season home schedule with a 4-3-2 mark at Beyer-Small '76 Field.

 
FACTS & FIGURES

• Colgate finished the game with an outstanding 25-3 shot advantage, which included a 14-2 shot on goal edge.
• The Raiders held a 6-1 lead in corner kicks.
• Colgate keepers Kelly Chiavaro and Laura Leonard both saw action in goal, with Chiavaro recording two saves.
• Army played three different keepers and Cassalia made nine saves.

 
FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Kathy Brawn

• "We had a great mentality and good focus going into the game. We put ourselves in a situation where we need to win games to move on and I thought the team came together in a great way to do that tonight."
• "There was great energy in the practices leading up to the game and the game itself. There were a lot of great connections between and among players throughout the entire team which was impressive to see. It had a different feeling about it, and it's the kind of feeling you need in big games like this."
• "We have to keep ourselves focused and take one game at a time. We can't have a drop off. There's no room for relaxing or resting on anything at this point."

 
Senior forward Sarah Coy

• "Over the last couple of games we've been putting together a lot of great things. We've been working on a lot in practice and today everything came together the way it needed to. That's what we need to continue to do moving forward."
• "We stayed focused throughout the entire game and put a full 90 minutes together. That's something we'll have to continue to do as we go through our next two games because I think we showed how important that is tonight."

 
UP NEXT

• The Raiders hit the road for their final two regular-season games, beginning with a Saturday contest at Loyola.
• Kickoff from Baltimore is set for 5 p.m.
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