CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- The Becker College women's soccer team fell to Lesley University 3-0 in their regular season finale. With the loss, the Hawks slipped to 5-3 in conference, and claimed the fourth seed in the championship tournament.
The Lynx had six shots, including three hitting the posts before they would break the stalemate. In the 28th minute, Senior Karlie Rubin put a corner kick to the middle of the box where classmate Samantha Turnbull got a head on it. The header struck the top crossbar, but Junior McKenna Straube (Junction City, Ore.) followed up with another header that also hit the cross bar. The loose ball found Rubin ten yards out where she blasted it past the goalie for a 1-0 lead going into half time.
Lesley put pressure on the Hawks defense at the start of the second, getting off seven shots to Becker's zero. Straube beat a Hawks defender with fancy ball handling and created space for her to make a diagonal pass to Junior Jordan Mitchell (Sachse, Texas) just outside the eighteen. Mitchell one touched it past the defender for a clear shot on net, giving the Lynx a 2-0 lead.
In the 88th minute, junior Kai Morehead (Oxnard, Calif.) connected with Straube for the final goal of the night.
Becker goaltender Jordyn Martel (Chicopee, Mass.) had four saves on the night.
No. 4 seed Becker will host No. 5 seed Bay Path University Saturday, October 28th in the first round of the NECC Championship Tournament. Lesley will host the winner of that match on Wednesday, November 1st at 8pm.