KEUKA PARK, N.Y. – Scoring its first three goals off corner kicks, the Lycoming College women's soccer team won its third straight game to start the 2025 season, 5-0, over Keuka College on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 2, at the Jephson Community Athletic Complex.
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Junior
Mikayla Long (Lewisburg, Pa./Lewisburg Area) scored three of the five goals, becoming the eighth player in program history and first since Bella Green in 2022, to reach 20 career goals with her first strike of the day. Sophomore
Ella Magee (Selinsgrove, Pa./Selinsgrove Area) added a goal and two assists and junior
Julia Bidelspach (Myerstown, Pa./ELCO) scored her second goal of the season.
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The Warriors (3-0 overall) held a 33-4 advantage in shots and a 14-2 advantage in corners over the Wolves (0-2 overall). Long got the Warriors on the board with the first of those corners, scoring in the second minute off a deflection on the corner. Early in the second half, Bidelspach scored, heading in a corner from Magee. Junior
Norah Mosley (Robbinsville, N.J./Allentown) set up the next goal on a corner kick headed in by Long.
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Lycoming's last two goals came in the flow of play, with first-year
Amelia Nieman (East Stroudsburg, Pa./Stroudsburg) passing a through ball that was deflected to the feet of Magee, who fired a 25-yard shot high into the center of the goal. Long added the final score off a 1-v-1 opportunity, firing high into the near post.
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Senior
Riley Block (Hopatcong, N.J./Morris Catholic) (3-0) made one save in the game's first 60 minutes before first-year
Leah Elliott (Robesonia, Pa./Conrad Weiser) stopped two shots in the final 30 minutes. Keuka keeper Payton Malec stopped 14 shots.
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The Warriors get back on the field on Saturday, Sept. 6, when Mount Aloysius College comes to UPMC Field for a 2 p.m. kickoff.
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