SWARTHMORE, Pa. – In its final home game of the regular season, the 14th-ranked Swarthmore College women's soccer team (14-1-1, 8-0-1) dispatched the visiting Bryn Mawr College Owls (3-14, 1-9 CC) by a 6-0 score on Thursday, Oct. 29. Sophomore
Katie Dougherty scored twice and freshman
Marin McCoy tallied a goal and an assist.
McCoy now has 36 points this year on 13 goals and 10 assists, one shy of tying the program record for points in a single season. Senior
Melissa Trofa added two helpers and
Emily Telford-Marx,
Mele Johnson and
Claire O'Brien also scored for the Garnet.
Dougherty opened the scoring in the third minute after she buried a mishandled cross into the open net. The forward doubled up five minutes later for her 10th goal of the season as she received a long through ball from senior
Cappy Pitts.
Swarthmore took a 3-0 lead at 17:29 when senior Telford-Marx knocked in a corner kick serviced by Trofa, who leads the Centennial Conference with 12 assists this season. Johnson rounded out the scoring in the first half during the closing minutes of the period with a well-struck, left-footed shot into the upper corner from outside of 18 yards.
O'Brien netted her sixth goal of the campaign off a Trofa pass and McCoy put one more on the board in the 66th minute, slotting the ball near the far post after receiving the ball from
Kirsten Morehouse.
The Garnet head to Haverford on Saturday, Oct. 31 for an important rivalry game at 1:00 p.m. Swarthmore can clinch the top seed and the right to host the Centennial Conference tournament with a win.