WORCESTER, Mass. — Smith College fell 4-0 to WPI in NEWMAC soccer action Wednesday evening at H. Carr Field. Sarah Frye scored twice for the hosts, who outshot the Bears 27-4. Smith moves to 0-13-3 overall and 0-8-2 in conference play, while WPI improves to 10-5-2 and 7-1-2.
WPI broke through in the 34th minute when Maeve Steckley ran onto a through ball from Madisen McLeod and finished into the bottom right corner. Frye doubled the lead less than four minutes later, driving to the end line for a shot that deflected off a defender and in. Riley Cioffi-Smith (North Branford, CT/Cheshire Academy) made three saves in the first half to keep the deficit at two through the break.
Aliza Margolis pushed the margin to 3-0 in the 50th minute, finishing a ball played over the top by Abigail Johnson. Frye added her second goal in the 68th minute, putting away a rebound seconds after a save by Blair Pasarkar (Fair Lawn, NJ/Fair Lawn). Pasarkar stopped four shots in the second half, and the Smith goalkeepers combined for seven saves against 11 WPI shots on goal.
Una Keller (Davis, CA/Davis) accounted for all three of Smith's shots on goal, testing WPI goalkeeper Ayla Verheul in the 10th, 44th and 65th minutes. Melia Espinosa (La Quinta, CA/La Quinta) added the Bears' other attempt, and Keala Barnes (Las Vegas, NV/Las Vegas Academy of the Arts) took all three Smith corner kicks. Riley Branford (Cleveland Heights, OH/Hawken School) and Reagan Flickinger (Cape May, NJ/Wildwood Catholic Academy) played the full 90 minutes on the back line.
Smith closes the regular season Saturday at 3 p.m. when it hosts Coast Guard in Northampton.
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