ANNVILLE, Pa. - A four-goal outburst by Lebanon Valley carried them past McDaniel and into the ECAC Mid-Atlantic Semifinals with a 4-1 win Wednesday.
The Dutchmen (15-4), seeded third in the bracket, will face off at Stevenson, 1-0 overtime winner against Muhlenberg, on Saturday at 11 a.m. for the right to go to the title game on Sunday. The other semifinal will pit Misericordia and Arcadia.
Brittany Fleisher,
Lyndee Sheaffer,
Lauren Brumbach, and
Maddie Fox all scored for LVC in the win.
After an even first half saw the Dutchmen take a 2-1 lead, the hosts dominated the second frame to lead 18-10 on shots (11-4 in the second half) while repelling an 8-7 McDaniel corner advantage. As she had in LVC's 1-0 win over the Green Terror in October, McDaniel goalkeeper Caila White kept them in the game with 10 saves, but a two-goal stretch by LVC early in the second half put the game out of reach.
Both teams had early opportunities, but it was
Brittany Fleisher who put LVC on the board first when
Maddie Fox's shot caromed off of White and fell to Fleisher's stick for the goal at 11 minutes.
Lauren Brumbach doubled the lead 10 minutes later, launching a hard-hit ball from the circle off
Rachel Gorman's penalty corner injection.
McDaniel's Sara Reynolds got a goal back late in the half when Rachel Cressman flipped Bayley Vohs' corner hit to her left, but the Dutchmen came out firing in the second half and almost immediately cancelled it out.
Megan Arnst put a shot off of White's pads for Fox to finish at 36:38, and
Lyndee Sheaffer made it 4-1 at 42:09 when she slammed in a rebounded defensive save of
Morgan Vasiliu's shot.
Kendra Moll made five saves in the win, and
Kristen Garman had a defensive save as well.