PURCHASE, N.Y. -- Visiting Elizabethtown scored 16 second half goals to break open a competitive game and roll to a fifth straight win with a 25-8 victory over Manhattanville Saturday afternoon at GoValiants.com Field.

The Valiants found themselves down 4-0 before the game was seven minutes old and never got much closer, scoring 7:12 into the first half on a Katie Bertel (Colorado Springs, Colo.) goal before watching the Blue Jays rattle off three more unanswered scores. Manhattanville struck three more times in the first half Bertel, Jen Ascencio (Monroe, N.Y.) and Cory Alcorn (Orangeville, Ontario) had the goals to make the score 9-4 at halftime, but Elizabethtown started the second half on an 8-0 run to put the game away.

Bertel and Ascencio led the Valiants with two goals each, with Alcorn and Emelda Ogweta (Portland, Maine) each chipping in a goal and an assist. Abbe Grimes (Hamden, Conn.) and Darby Webber (Walpole, Mass.) had the other Manhattanville goals.

Elizabethtown (9-4, 6-1 MAC) got 10 points (eight goals and two assists) from Katie Foley and had six others with at least two goals. The Blue Jays out-shot Manhattanville 51-21 in the game and earned 25 of 34 draw controls in the win.

Kirstin Betsill (Parkton, Md.) made 12 saves in cage despite the Blue Jays gaudy offensive totals. Betsill now has 160 saves in her rookie season, the fifth most in a single-season in program history and the most for a freshman since Angela Lozado turned aside 193 shots in 1999.

Manhattanville (7-8, 3-4 MAC) closes out the season with two more home games, beginning Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. against Farmingdale State. Live Gametracker coverage of that game will be available at www.GoValiants.com

2008-04-19