Trinity Women's Soccer Stays Unbeaten After Second Straight Scoreless Tie
Purchase, N.Y. - Sophomore Lily Pepper (Princeton Junction, N.J.) made six saves and helped her defense maintain 110 minutes of scoreless play in goal to lead the visiting Trinity College Bantams to a 0-0 tie in double overtime against the Manhattanville College Valiants in women's soccer action this evening. Trinity moves to 0-0-2 with its second scoreless tie in five days, while the Valiants, ranked No. 8 in the Atlantic Region, fall to 4-1-1.
Pepper has now played 175 consecutive scoreless minutes in the Trinity goal this fall and 407 straight minutes in goal without allowing a goal, dating back to the second game of the 2008 season. Manhattanville held a 12-11 edge in shots while each team took three corner kicks and committed 15 fouls. Junior keeper Ali Bromson (Suffield, Conn.) had six saves for the Valiants.
The first half featured few first-rate chances for either side, as Bromson made three saves for Manhattanville and Pepper turned aside a pair of shots for Trinity. The first shot of the match came at the nine-minute mark, when senior Cybil Robinson (South Lake Tahoe, Calif.) took a ball in the left side of the box and lofted a shot that glanced off the side of the post and out. The best Trinity chance of the first frame came in the 31st minute, when senior tri-captain midfielder Lauren Olsen (Cheshire, Conn.) picked up a loose ball at the top of the 18 and fired a rocket that barely sailed over the crossbar and into the parking lot behind the net.
Neither team had any real opportunities for most of the second half, before Manhattanville had two golden chances to end the game in the final minutes of regulation, but could not convert. One goal was negated by an offsides call and Pepper stymied Manhattanville junior forward Holly Nonis (Brampton, Ontario) on a one-on-one breakaway with 20 seconds on the clock. The defenses held strong through the overtimes despite offensive pressure by both squads.
