No. 13 West Chester Advances With 3-0 Shutout Over Gannon

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Daily Local Article (by Neil Geohegan)

WEST CHESTER, Pa. – Three different goal scorers found the back of the net for 13th-ranked West Chester as the Golden Rams shutout visiting Gannon, 3-0, in the PSAC Quarterfinal round matchup at Rockwell Field Tuesday morning.
 
West Chester (16-1-1) advances to the semifinals of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference postseason tournament for the 11th time in school history while Gannon (9-9) saw its 2014 campaign come to a close. The Golden Rams will take on Kutztown Friday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. at East Stroudsburg University. The other semifinal pits the host Warriors against California, Pa., at 1 p.m.
 
Nikki Lynch (Limerick, Pa./Spring-Ford) got things started early when she chipped a ball over Lady Knights' goalkeeper, Shannon Differ's, head and into the net in the eighth minute. Carly Yost (North Wales, Pa./North Penn) was credited with the assist.
 
Over half an hour later, Haley Mangiaruga (North Wales, Pa./North Penn) finished off a cross to double the hosts lead heading in to halftime. Kara Parvel (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall) sent a cross from the near sideline that was flicked on by Marissa Valenti (Manassas, Va./Osbourn Park). Mangiaruga blasted home the winner.
 
Dana Hunt (Pittstown, N.J./Delaware Valley Regional) iced the game with a beautiful header into the far corner off a cross from the far side by Cara Deola (Churchville, Pa./Council Rock South) with seven minutes remaining in the contest.
 
West Chester's back line of Sara Bennis (Lancaster, Pa./Penn Manor), Erika Schrock (Camp Hill, Pa./Camp Hill) and Carly Henry (Perkasie, Pa./Pennridge) did an outstanding job all afternoon bottling up Gannon's leading scorer, and the second-leading scorer in the PSAC, Mani Brueckner. That went a long way towards Golden Rams' goalkeeper, Alex Srolis (Chester Springs, Pa./Downingtown East) recording her eighth shutout of the season. Srolis made four stops to pick up her 16th win of the season.
 
NOTES: With the win, West Chester moves to 13-9-2 all-time in the PSAC Women's Soccer Tournament … West Chester advances to the semifinals for the second straight year and 11th time overall … West Chester improves to 7-1-1 all-time against Gannon, including 2-0 against the Lady Knights in the postseason … this is West Chester's 12th consecutive trip to the PSAC Tournament … Tuesday's victory was the 299th career win for West Chester women's soccer dating back to its inception in 1992 … Jr., Nikki Lynch scored her first career goal in Tuesday's win … So., GK Alex Srolis moved into 10th place on West Chester's single-season shutout charts with her eighth bagel this fall … she moved into sixth place on West Chester's all-time shutout list with her 17th career blanking … she is now 3-1 in the PSAC Tournament in her career … her 27 career wins is currently seventh all-time at WCU.