COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – Colleen Leahy netted two goals with an assist and Brooke Overly scored two of her own to spark the Ursinus College field hockey team to a 6-0 rout of Swarthmore in Centennial Conference action on Wednesday.
It was the second five-point performance of the season for Leahy, who opened the scoring just 2:27 in as No. 7 Ursinus (6-2, 3-1) opened up a 5-0 lead in the first 23 minutes and cruised from there to its 25th consecutive victory over the Garnet (4-6, 0-3). The Bears are unbeaten against Swarthmore since 1948.
Senior Amber Steigerwalt ripped the back of the net for the fourth time in five contests and freshman Katie DeLuca tallied her first collegiate goal in the first period. DeLuca's account-opening finish came on the first career assist for freshman Anna Hall.
Sophomore Jules Singer and junior Sydney Godbey combined for the shutout in the cage, Godbey making four saves after replacing Singer at halftime. Godbey stoned a laser of a shot with two minutes remaining, and senior Ann Kopera swatted away a high deflection that was ticketed for the back of the net in the second half, her first defensive save of the season.
Leahy struck first for the Bears, completing a breakaway down the left side in the opening stanza. Steigerwalt doubled the spread about five minutes later, and Leahy scored again just three minutes after that; she received a long pass down the right side, carried the ball into the circle, and used a series of impressive stick maneuvers before slipping a shot between the goalkeeper's legs.
Overly made it 4-0 just shy of the 15-minute mark, rocketing a shot from the top of the circle into the top right corner of the net on a feed from Kopera.
DeLuca got on the board for the first time at 22:59, deflecting a shot from Hall past Garnet goalie Zelda Bank. Overly capped the scoring with a similar goal, tipping in a Leahy service in front of the cage at the 41:25 mark.
Ursinus outshot Swarthmore, 19-11, and held an 8-6 edge in penalty corners.
Bank collected seven saves for the Garnet.
Steigerwalt's goal moved her past former teammate Devin Brakel '15 and into eighth all-time in points at Ursinus (115).
The Bears are back on the Snell Field turf for a Family Day fray with McDaniel on Saturday at noon.
