Andrade Propels No. 1 Women's Soccer Past No. 5 Altoona; Lions Advance to AMCC Championship Game

ERIE, Pa. – The No. 1 Penn State Behrend women's soccer defeated No. 5 Penn State Altoona 4-0 in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) semifinals on Wednesday night.

Score: Penn State Behrend 4, Penn State Altoona 0
Records: Penn State Behrend (14-3-2), Penn State Altoona (6-6-6)

Key Moments:

* The Lions advance to the AMCC Championship game on Saturday
* Behrend will face No. 2 Pitt-Greensburg, who advanced on penalty kicks against Alfred State in the other semifinal
* The Lions have yet to give up a goal to a conference opponent this season with the shutout
* Behrend will take a nine-game winning streak into the championship game
* Marlene Andrade scored a pair of goals and assisted on another, while Rachel Sickeri tallied two assists
* Andrade netted her seventh and eighth goal of the season, beginning with the game winner
* Just 2:16 into the game, Andrade was awarded a penalty kick that as stopped by Mya Torres
* Andrade got the rebound off the save for a 1-0 lead
* Less than two minutes later, Rori Kostos scored her seventh goal off a pair of passes from Sickeri and Lindsey Pawlawski
* Pawlawski sent a through ball to Sickeri toward the endline and Sickeri put the ball in the box for Kostos, who had her ball saved by Torres but it came loose and went over the goal line
* At the 54:30 mark of the second half, Andrade scored again off a free kick that was tapped by Sickeri for a 3-0 lead
* Bri Ross added the final goal at the 56:52 mark off a pass from Andrade

Up Next:

* The Lions return to action on Saturday against the Bobcats at 2 p.m. at the Behrend Stadium.