Mounties Drop Season Finale to Playoff Bound Edinboro – Meadows Sets School Single Record in Goals and Points – Seniors Karyn Anselmo and Kelsey Chapman Honored in Pregame ceremoniesMANSFIELD – Freshman sensation
Delaney Meadows scored a season-record 12th goal, but playoff-bound Edinboro scored twice in the second half to edge Mansfield 2-1 in the Mountaineers season finale Saturday afternoon.
Senior
Karyn Anselmo and
Kelsey Chapman were both honored during pregame ceremonies.
The two teams battled to a scoreless tie in the first half before Edinboro got on the board when Jansen Hartman scored from 15 yards out in the 60th minute.
The Fighting Scots added another goal 17 minutes later on shot from Halle Hammer from ten yards out.
Mansfield did give up with Meadows, who ranks among the top five scorers in the PSAC, got loose on a breakaway and chipped the ball over the goalkeepers head from 10 yards out to close the gap to 2-1 in the 82nd minute.
The Mountaineers, who beat Millersville 3-2 on a last minute goal in their last game, kept the offensive pressure up with
Abby Korber putting a ball on net off a corner that the Edinboro goalie made a save on. Thirty seconds later Chapman got off a shot that was blocked.
Korber got off another shot in the 86th minute that missed right and added another two minutes later that got blocked.
Meadows shattered the former school single season record of 9 goals set by Lyndi Keiser in 2005 and also surpassed Keiser's single season point record of 22 set in 2005 with 26 points.
Freshman goalkeeper
Rachel Fox had four saves on the day to finish the season with 133 saves, the third most in school history and the most ever by a freshman.
Sarah Baskey had five saves in goal for Edinboro.