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Junior All-American Meghan
Welcome netted the match-winner and in the process became the
eighth player in program history to reach the 100-career point
mark.
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#10
Franklin Pierce Edges
Bentley, 2-1
Welcome
nets winner, becomes eighth in
program history to reach 100 career points
RINDGE,
N.H. (October 11, 2003) –
Franklin Pierce, ranked No. 10 in this week’s National Soccer Coaches
Association of America (NSCAA)/adidas Division II poll, needed two
second half goals to erase a one-goal halftime deficit and post a 2-1
victory over Bentley College, receiving votes in this week’s NSCAA/adidas
poll, in Northeast-10 Conference women’s soccer action at Crystal
Field this afternoon.
Junior All-American Meghan Welcome (Haverhill,
Mass./Haverhill) netted the match-winning goal at the 75:35-mark
to cap the Franklin Pierce comeback. She was on the scoring end of a
give-and-go with sophomore Laura Hislop (Belfast, Northern
Ireland) in front of the Bentley net.
The goal was Welcome’s Conference-leading 16th of
the season and she became the eighth player in program history to reach
the 100-point plateau for her career. She also moved into second
all-time among US-born players at the College, behind just Amy Hanlon
(’96) who finished her four-year career with 124 career points.
Welcome’s 43 career goals also ranks eighth all-time at Franklin
Pierce.
Franklin Pierce, ranked second in the New England Region,
controlled possession for nearly the entire first half, but Bentley,
ranked third in the region, broke open the scoring just six seconds shy
of the intermission when sophomore Lauren Hobbie-Welch
(Clarksburg, Mass./Drury) took advantage of a Ravens miscue in
the back and fired a shot from the top of the penalty area on the
Falcons second shot of the match.
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Senior Jillian Tente knotted
the match at 1-1 in the second half.
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Franklin
Pierce drew even in the 59th minute when senior Jillian
Tente (Wakefield, Mass./South Kingstown) one-timed a corner kick
from sophomore Sonya Hughes (Balbriggan, Ireland) at the
far post after two other Ravens missed on the kick. It marked Tente’s
second goal of the season and came less than two minutes after she had
entered the match.
The Ravens, now unbeaten in their last 92 home matches against
New England Region opponents, out-shot the Falcons by a 15-5 margin for
the match, including 9-2 over the opening 45-minutes.
Bentley senior goalkeeper Erin Fahey (Plymouth,
Mass./Plymouth South) registered five saves on the afternoon.
Franklin Pierce freshman Linnea Authier (East Longmeadow,
Mass./East Longmeadow) made her second career start and did not
register a stop.
Franklin Pierce (11-2, 10-1 NE-10) returns to action on Tuesday
afternoon when it visits Green Mountain College for a non-conference
match at 3:30 p.m. Bentley (8-2-2, 6-2-2 NE-10) hosts No. 2 Merrimack
College on Monday at 3 p.m.
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STATISTICS
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