Women's Soccer Named AMCC Co-Regular Season Champions; Lions Defeat Hilbert

Women's Soccer Named AMCC Co-Regular Season Champions; Lions Defeat Hilbert

ERIE, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend women's soccer team earned the No. 1 seed for the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Tournament thanks to a 7-0 win over Hilbert on Tuesday night.

Score: Penn State Behrend 7, Hilbert 0
Records: Penn State Behrend (11-4-1, 7-0-1 AMCC), Hilbert (7-8-1, 5-3-1 AMCC)

Key Moments

* The Behrend Lions are named the Co-Regular Season Champions along with Pitt-Greensburg
* The Lions finish AMCC action 8-0-1 to earn a first-round bye
* Behrend scored four goals in a 13-minute span to start the game
* The lead extended to 6-0 with 20 minutes left to play in the opening half
* Rachel Sickeri (DuBois, PA/DuBois) started the scoring and then assisted on the next two goals
* Sickeri registered her first game-winning goal of the season with 92 seconds gone in the contest
* Audra Kuzma (Center, PA/Central Valley) connected with Sickeri for two goals only one minute, 36 seconds apart
* Lizzie Hoff (Moon, PA/Moon) sandwiched a pair of goals around Trinity Prestash's (Phillipsburg, PA/West Branch) lone goal of the game
* Prestash has extended her points streak to seven straight games
* Ashley Ornowski (North Huntingdon, PA/Norwin) tallied her first goal of the season on Devyn Bailey's (Mercer, PA/Mercer) first assist of the year with less than two minutes remaining
* Ornowski blasted the ball from the left side from 30-yards out to make it 7-0
* Riley Morningstar (North Huntingdon, PA/Norwin) played the entire 90 minutes for her fifth shutout

Up Next:

* The Lions return to action on Wednesday, November 1 for the AMCC Semifinals at the Soccer Complex. Opponent is to be determined.