ANNVILLE, Pa. – Abrielle Miller delivered a career day for the Lebanon Valley College women's soccer team, registering seven points with a hat trick and an assist during a 7-0 victory over Arcadia University in the regular-season finale on Saturday, Oct. 31, at Herbert Field. The assist marked the 27th of Miller's career, breaking LVC's program record for career assists.
The teams went back and forth early in the first half, until the Dutchmen (10-5-0, 6-2-0 MAC Freedom) took a 1-0 lead over the Knights (6-9-2, 3-5-0 MAC Freedom) at the 7:48 mark. The squad got on the board when Miller took a shot from behind the right side of the penalty box, which went into the upper-left corner of the net for a goal. Lebanon Valley kept sending the ball toward the net as the stanza progressed, outshooting the opposition 9-3 over the next 23:10. During this stretch, goalkeeper
Camryn Porter delivered two saves for LVC.
The Flying Dutchmen found the net again 35:50 into the contest, taking a 2-0 advantage. The team went up by two when
Ashlynn Newton took a shot from just behind the right side of the penalty box and sent the ball into the lower-right side of the net for a goal. Miller broke the program record for career assists on this goal. Lebanon Valley quickly scored next at the 37:26 mark, extending its lead to 3-0. Miller took a shot to the right of the penalty arc, which went into the lower-left corner of the net, after an assist by Newton. LVC led by three entering halftime.
The Dutchmen resumed the scoring 8:04 into the second half, going up 4-0. Miller continued her excellent game with her third goal, which went into the lower-center portion of the net following an assist by
Kennedy Dings. Lebanon Valley continued its offensive clinic by adding a tally at the 62:35 mark, making it a 5-0 game. Newton tallied her second goal of the afternoon, kicking the ball from the back of the goal box into the lower-left corner of the net. Ressler dished out the assist on the program's fifth goal.
LVC put another point on the scoreboard at the 70:23 mark, going ahead 6-0. After two great passes from
Mikhaela Sartor and Newton,
Lauren O'Malley took a shot that deflected off the left post and went into the lower-left side of the net for a goal. The Dutchmen later tacked on a goal at the 78:24 mark, taking a 7-0 advantage.
Sarah Gowell extended the program's lead by taking a shot to the left of the penalty arc, which went into the lower-left corner of the net for her first career goal. Arcadia followed this with shots on target at the 80:26 and 86:32 marks, but Lebanon Valley responded with two saves by Porter. Ultimately, the Flying Dutchmen went on to preserve their lead and secure the victory.
Inside the Box Score
- Lebanon Valley enters the postseason on a six-game winning streak.
- Offensively, the Dutchmen tied a season-high of 18 points and recorded a season-high seven goals.
- Miller recorded a game-high and career-high seven points, including her second hat trick of the year and an assist on Newton's first goal. The assist marked the 27th of her career, breaking the program's career assists record that was previously held by Amanda Douglass '15 and Robyn LaRosa Cox '02. Miller now has 32 points, 12 goals, five game-winning goals, and eight assists this fall, and leads the conference in each of these categories.
- Newton registered a career-high six points by tying a career-high two goals and setting a career-high with two assists.
- Gowell scored her first career goal.
- O'Malley found the net for the first time this season.
- Ressler dished out her second assist of the campaign on Newton's second goal.
- Dings was credited with her third assist of the year on Miller's third goal.
- Sartor recorded her first career assist on the goal by O'Malley.
- Porter made five saves to bring her season total to 50 stops. The junior also posted her eighth shutout of the season, extending her career program record to 23 clean sheets.
- Lebanon Valley outshot Arcadia 28-8 and had a 16-5 advantage in shots on goal.
- Miller also logged game-highs of eight shots and five shots on target.
- LVC had a 4-3 advantage in corner kicks.
Up Next
The third-seeded Flying Dutchmen will begin postseason play on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m., when the program will take on second-seeded Misericordia University in the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Freedom Championship semifinal at Mangelsdorf Field in Dallas.
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