Pioneers Shut Out At Yale

Tuesday, September 8

Yale Soccer Classic

7 pm

Sacred Heart

2-4

Yale

2-2

Sacred Heart

Yale

9/8/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer

Box Score

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – For the second consecutive game, the Sacred Heart women's soccer team was shut out after a 4-0 loss to the Yale Bulldogs at Reese Stadium Tuesday night.

Yale (2-2-0) opened the scoring in the seventh minute. Michelle Alozie took advantage of miscommunication in the Sacred Heart (2-4-0) end, putting a Geneva Decker pass into an open net to give the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead. Six minutes later, Alozie headed in an Ally Grossman free kick to double Yale's lead. Alozie capped her hat trick in the 62^nd minute, staking Yale to a 3-0 lead. The Bulldogs added one more goal in the final five minutes for the 4-0 win.

Sacred Heart returns home to Campus Field on Friday, September 18 for a 7 p.m. game against Iona.

FIRST HALF

- Talia Schwartz was called into action in the 4^th minute, making a save on a Michelle Alozie shot

- Melanie DaSilva put a shot wide of goal in the fifth minute

- Two minutes after Alozie put Yale up 1-0, Schwartz made a save on a Keri Cavallo shot

- SHU's first shot on goal came in the 14^th minute off the foot of Lindsay Corallo; Two minutes later, Alexis Parlato had a shot stopped by Yale goalkeeper Rachel Ames

SECOND HALF

- DaSilva and Marissa Christy both had a shot saved in the 53^rd minute

- Schwartz made her first save of the second half as the clock hit the hour mark

- Parlato got behind the Yale defense in the 65^th minute, but couldn't get a shot past Ames