STONY BROOK, N.Y. – The Stony Brook women's soccer team was not able to crack the code that was UMBC's defense in the first half, sending just four shots towards net.
 
The second half, however, was a completely different story. The Seawolves unleashed three goals in a 64-second span and a fourth inside of 10 minutes from the first and Stony Brook ran away with a 4-0 victory at home on Thursday night.
 
BISCHOF'S REACTION
"I thought we did a good job of executing our gameplan tonight. At halftime, we just reminded them of what that was and how we needed to attack it better and we did that in the second half."
 
SCORING SUMMARY

• 59^th minute – Stony Brook 1, UMBC 0 – Junior Alyssa Francese (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) scored the first of her two on a spot kick after drawing a foul in the box. She finished low and left on the Retrievers keeper.
• 60^th minute – Stony Brook 2, UMBC 0 – 27 seconds later, classmate Rachel Florenz (East Islip, N.Y.) shot one high over the keeper and into the left corner to double the lead after junior Chelsie DePonte (Honolulu, Hawaii) played her towards the box.
• 60^th minute – Stony Brook 3, UMBC 0 – DePonte put herself into the goal column 37 seconds after her assist. She stole the ball off a Retriever defender's feet and rolled it into the net.
• 69^th minute – Stony Brook 4, UMBC 0 – Francese scored her second of the night after swiping the ball from UMBC and catching the keeper out of position, finishing far post.

STATS AND NOTES

• Francese has now scored four goals in her last two games, sitting at eight on the season.
• She now has five game-winning goals in 2019, good for the lead nationally.
• After not scoring in her first seven appearances, Florenz has now scored goals in three of her last four outings.
• DePonte added her first goal since netting two against Northeastern in the season opener. She now has four assists on the year, with one in each of the last two games.
• Junior Sofia Manner (Helsinki, Finland) had to make one save on the night as her goals-against average dropped to 1.14.
• The Seawolves defense has locked down recently, allowing two goals in the last five games and recording four clean sheets during that span.
• Stony Brook improved to 5-1 at home this season.
• After losing three of four, tonight's hosts have won four of five.

UP NEXT
Stony Brook battles the top of the league next week as they head to the Southern Tier to take on the 8-2-1 Binghamton Bearcats. That battle is set for 1 p.m. at the Bearcats Sports Complex.
 
The Seawolves return home a week from Sunday to host UMass Lowell in their annual Pride Game. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. at LaValle Stadium.
 
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