Women's soccer falls in league game to Amherst - Colby News

WATERVILLE, Maine --- The Colby women's soccer team had a small victory by becoming scoring just the third goal against unbeaten Amherst College all season, but the Jeffs pulled away in the second half for a 5-1 victory in New England Small College Athletic Conference play Saturday.
Sarah Duffy (Fairfield, Conn.) had two goals and one assist and teammate Kathryn Nathan (Pembroke, Mass.) added one goal and two assists for the eighth-ranked Jeffs.
Amherst is 10-0 overall and 7-0 in the conference heading into Sunday's 12:30 p.m. game at Bowdoin College, while the Mules fall to 5-5-1 overall and 1-5-1 in the league. Colby will entertain Hamilton College at 11 a.m. Sunday in another conference game.
Amherst had two goals in a span of 1:21 to take a 2-0 lead. Nathan played a free kick to Mel Stier (Deerfield, Mass.), who sent a cross to Jill Kochanek (Pittsburgh, Pa.) for a header goal at 17:39.
Nathan picked up a second quick assist when her feed sent Duffy for a breakaway goal at 19 minutes.
The Jeffs took a 3-0 lead at 5:15 of the second half when Elizabeth Ludlow (Huntington, N.Y.) scored off a cross from Duffy.
The Mules stayed in the game, though, when Sam Merriweather (Los Altos, Calif.) was sent in on a nice pass by Alex Yorke (Chicago, Ill.) for Colby's goal at 56:43. Hamilton and Eastern Connecticut are the only other teams to score a goal against Amherst.
The Jeffs bounced back quickly and made it a three-goal game again when Nathan scored off a free kick just 2:56 after the Colby goal. Duffy followed up with her second goal about two minutes later.
Allie Horwitz (Woodbridge, Conn.) played 80 minutes in goal and Claire Bennett (Westfield, N.J.) did the last 10 for Amherst. Emily Brook (Duxbury, Mass.) stopped nine shots for Colby.
Amherst 5, Colby 1
AMHWS............... 2 3 - 5
Colby............... 0 1 - 1
SCORING SUMMARY:
1. 17:39 AMHWS Jill Kochanek (Kathryn Nathan;Mel Stier)
2. 19:00 AMHWS Sarah Duffy (Kathryn Nathan)
3. 50:15 AMHWS Elizabeth Ludlow (Sarah Duffy)
4. 56:43 COLWS11 Sam Merriweather (Alex Yorke)
5. 59:39 AMHWS Kathryn Nathan (unassisted)
6. 61:30 AMHWS Sarah Duffy (Amanda Brisco)
Shots: AMHWS 20, Colby 5; Saves: AMHWS 1 (Allie Horwitz, 80:00, 1, Claire Bennett, 10:00, 0), Colby 9 (Emily Brook 9).