Box Score (New/Sortable Format) LOCK HAVEN, Pa. –
Ashley Mutkus scored a pair of goals to lead the 19th-ranked Edinboro women's soccer team to a 3-0 PSAC win at Lock Haven on Saturday afternoon. The victory is the 200th of head coach
Gary Kagiavas' career. Edinboro is off to the best start in school history at 7-1-0 overall, and improved to 6-1-0 in PSAC action. Lock Haven fell to 2-5-0 and 1-5-0, respectively.
Kagaivas is the only coach Edinboro has had since starting the women's soccer program in 1996. Now in his 21st season, he has compiled a 200-156-33 ledger.
Edinboro scored all three of their goals in the first half, with Mutkus scoring the first two goals. The junior midfielder/forward notched the first goal of the game at the 14:27 mark on a long shot into the back of the net. She added her team-high fifth goal 14 minutes later at 28:26, this time scoring from close in to beat goalkeeper Bree Hilty.
Senior forward
Alex Brown boosted the Edinboro lead to 3-0 as she beat a defender, then fired a shot past Hilty into the far corner for her third goal of the season at 31:46.
Edinboro ended the match with a 14-7 advantage in shots. Junior
Sarah Baskey played the first 79 minutes in goal, with freshman
Allie Smyth making her first collegiate appearance and playing the final 11 minutes. The two combined for three saves as the Fighting Scots recorded their fourth shutout of the season. Edinboro has now allowed just five goals.
The Fighting Scots return to action on Tuesday, September 27 at Pitt-Johnstown in a 4 p.m. match.