BROOKLYN --- (
www.YORKATHLETICS.com) York College women's soccer scored seven second-half goals to coast past the Medgar Evers College Cougars (0-13-0) with a 10-1 non-conference win in Saturday's season finale from Kingsborough Community College. The Cardinals closed out the 2019 campaign unbeaten in four of its final six games to finish the season with a record of 3-11-1.
Geraldine Guese broke the scoring ice 2:03 in to give York the early lead with her first-career goal. Medgar Evers was then credited with its first goal of the season in the seventh minute on an own goal off a Cardinal defender. York answered with nine-unanswered goals to close out the final 68:33 starting with Guese slotting a pass to
Diamond Jackson for score her first-career goal to bury the game-winner in the 22nd minute to stake the Cardinals a 2-1 lead. Guese scored 2:22 later to send a 3-1 game into intermission.
Gisselle Flores-Barajas scored in the 56th minute for the first of seven Cardinal second-half goals before assisting on
Elodie Dorvile's first-career goal in the 61st minute. . In the 68th minute,
Chelsea Vasquez came out of York's goal to play the field to net her first-career goal. Flores-Barajas would then score her second tally of the game on an assist from Jackson at 80:54 to tie a single-season program record of 23 points and 11 goals set by
Kennisha Wills in 2015. Guese followed 1:42 later with her third goal of the game on a feed that helped
Taylor Bellmon tie Flores-Barajas and Willis for the program's single-season record for points. Dorville added her second goal of the game in the 85th minute before
Mary Meshanski settled the 10-1 final in the 86th minute.
Vasquez (3-11-1) played the first-half in goal for York and
Ina Okoro occupied the final 45 minutes in between the pipes to preserve the win. Jody Ann-Blanchard made 17 stops in defeat for Medgar Evers.
York finished the match with the clear advantage in shots (43-1), shots on goal (27-1) and corner kicks (10-0). The 43 shots tied a program record originally set against Medgar Evers on September 19, 2015, while the 27 shots on goal broke the previous record of 25 (Sept. 19, 2015).
York graduates just one senior in
Ina Okoro and will look to carry the momentum forward from the 2019 season that saw the Cardinals post their highest win total since 2016.
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