The Lancer women's soccer team split a pair of road games on their opening weekend of the 2011 season. The Lancers fell to the Marauders 2-0 in their season opener before rebounding on Sunday to shut-out the Brock Badgers 4-0.

 

The first half saw the Lancers put some serious pressure on Marauder goalkeeper Brittany Duffey, who made some key saves early on to keep the Lancers off the board. Ball possession was even for both teams throughout the first, with breakaways from both the Lancers and the Marauders.

 

In the second, the Marauders put pressure on the Lancers defense before Melanie Van Der Hoop was given a yellow card in the 50th minute.

 

As play evened out, the Marauders found themselves on a breakaway but couldn't capitalize against Lancer goalkeeper Rebecca Singer to keep the score at knotted at zero.  

 

In the 75th minute of the match, midfielder Maiolino took a lobbed shot just inside the left corner of the 18-yard box over Singer's head to put the Marauders ahead.

 

After ten minutes of the Lancers again put on the pressure, yet the Marauders capitalized on a breakaway, beating Singer for the second goal of the match.

 

On Sunday, the Lancers rebounded as they dominated the host Badgers from the opening whistle.

 

The Lancers opened the scoring in the 31st minute, when Sara Kox headed in a corner kick from Cassandra Quayson.

 

In the second half, Windsor scored three times in five minutes.

 

In the 64th minute, Brock was unable to clear the corner kick and Quayson buried a deflected shot past Brock goalkeeper Luciana Di Paolo. 

 

In the 66th minute, Marianne Wright increased the Windsor lead to 3-0 when she drilled a shot from 25 yards out into the top-right corner.

 

Candace Garrod rounded out the Lancers scoring, three minutes later, when she beat the Brock defender and slid the ball past Di Paolo.

 

In goal, Windsor senior goalkeeper Rebecca Singer earned her first shutout of the season registering one save.

 

The Lancers will open the home portion of their schedule this coming weekend when they host the Waterloo Warriors on Saturday September 10th and the Laurier Golden Hawks on Sunday September 11th. Both games are set to go at 1:00pm on Alumni Field.