Keuka Women's Soccer Blanks Cobleskill 5-0
Senior Jessica Bandrowski (Center Moriches, NY/Center Moriches) scored twice and added an assist and freshman Jordan Fredell (Wurtsboro, NY/Monticello) added a goal as the Keuka College women's soccer team blanked SUNY Cobleskill 3-0 Saturday afternoon.
With the win, the Storm (8-5-1, 7-4 NEAC) qualified for the NEAC postseason tournament as the No. 5 seed and will travel to No. 4 Cazenovia (8-9, 7-4) Saturday, Nov. 2 for a quarterfinal contest.
Penn State-Berks (14-3-1, 11-0) earned the No. 1 seed and will host the tournament, which runs Nov. 2-10. Berks and Penn State-Abington (13-2-1, 10-1), the No. 2 seed, received byes into the semifinals.
Lancaster Bible College (12-7, 7-3) earned the No. 3 seed, followed by Cazenovia (8-9, 7-4) and Keuka. SUNYIT (8-9-1, 7-4), which beat Morrisville State 5-0 Saturday, earned the No. 6 seed into the tournament on the strength of the win over the Mustangs.
Keuka, Cazenovia and SUNYIT all finished with the same conference record, but Cazenovia earned the fourth seed on the strength of head-to-head wins over both Keuka and SUNYIT.
The Storm earned the No. 5 seed thanks to a 2-1 home win over the Wildcats on Sept. 7.
Bandrowski scored Keuka's first goal after freshman Abbey David (Kendall, NY/Kendall) played a ball into Bandrowski in the eighth minute.
Neither team scored for more than 38 minutes until Bandrowski served a corner kick into the box for Fredell, who got a foot on the ball and scored from six yards out for a 2-0 lead in the 40th minute.
Off a through ball from senior Stephanie Havens (Unadilla, NY/Unatego), Bandrowski finished the scoring with a blast from 18 yards out in the 67th minute as the Storm dominated possession against Cobleskill (2-12-1, 2-7-1).
Junior Ashley Swarts (Arkport, NY/Arkport) stopped 11 shots for her fourth shutout.
Up next is a rematch with Cazenovia, which beat the Green and Gold 3-0 loss on Sept. 21. Head coach Steve Christenson said his student-athletes were "eager" to atone for the loss to Cazenovia earlier in the season.
"I love our draw, I think it's a chance to get a shot at Cazenovia and it's a match we can win," Christenson said. "The women are eager to prepare for this match and get a result. It's definitely motivation for us, having lost to Caz earlier in the year. We really did a good job today of possessing the ball, and the gaps in our lineup that we had last weekend were cleaned up along all three lines. And on the attack, we punished the other team by finishing our opportunities."
