Grantham, PA – The Falcons took the field Saturday afternoon when the Stevenson Mustangs visited Anderson field for the first conference match of the fall. In a back and forth, high scoring battle, when the dust settled the Falcons came away with a 7-4 victory to improve their record to 5-4 on the season and began their conference schedule 1-0.
 
Goals were scored in bunches. With the Falcons finding the cage 4:30 into the game when Moriah Pautz found Carissa Gehman on the right side who put it past the goalie for a 1-0 lead for the Falcons.  Stevenson would even the score 10 minute later on a penalty corner.
 
Five minutes after seeing the score evened, the Falcons would go back on top, with one of the most impressive goals of the day. Becky Ely put a ball into the circle that was in the air over everyone's head. Taylor Holt knocked the ball out of the air and into the goal, putting the Falcons back up.
 
After the Falcons punched to go up, the Mustangs countered with a goal of their own, evening the score at 2-2 when Rosemarie Neiva found the cage on another penalty corner. Less than two minutes later Becky Ely picked up the ball at the midfield and carried in to the right side of the goal and beat the goalie on the left side for her first goal of the year.
 
As was the theme of the first half, Stevenson tied up the score off of a corner three minutes before the end of the half.
 
While the Falcons held a 13-6 advantage in shots in the first half, the Falcons and Mustangs were tied at three.
 
The second half was much more one sided with the Falcons out shooting the Mustangs 17-3.  The Falcons got a goal, and the lead, when Emily Rubright found the net on the left side in the 40th minute off a pass from Pfautz. This time the Falcons would not relinquish their lead.
 
The Falcons would add another goal just ten minute later when Kristin Donohue scores her first career goal to push the Falcons lead to 5-3. The Mustangs would cut the lead to one just minutes later, but the Falcons would add goals from Ally Morgret – her first career – and Carissa Gehman in the 61st and 64th minutes respectively to put the game out of reach.
 
At the end of the game the Falcons had filled up the stat sheet. All told, six different Falcons found the back of the net and eight Falcons collected points. The seven-goal outburst was the most the Falcons have put on the board in a single game this season.
 
The Falcons next take the field at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. on Tuesday, Sept. 30th at 4:00 p.m.