Box Score
MANSFIELD, Conn.- The Eastern Connecticut State University women's soccer team snapped its five-game winless streak in Saturday afternoon's Little East Conference match against Vermont State University Castleton  at Rick McCarthy Field, getting goals from three different players in the first 19 minutes in a 3-0 victory.
 
First first-year keeper Alex Ignatowicz (Coventry) extended her long scoreless streak to 327 minutes, 26 seconds – fourth-best in program history – over a span of five appearances and benefited as the Warriors won by a score of 3-0 for the third time this year. Ignatowicz won her first collegiate match after two losses and two ties, making four saves in her fifth start (ninth appearance) before giving way to sophomore Kaeden Dublin (Maple Grove, MN) with 19 minutes left.
 
Eastern (3-6-2, 1-1-2) was looking for its first win since September 14^th when it won 3-0 over Coast Guard. With Eastern coming off three losses and two scoreless draws in its last five contests, first-year player Brooke Bolles (Preston) started off the game with a goal in the sixth minute, her third of the year, assisted by senior forward Hailey Cocca (Stratford). Cocca had three shots on goal, one of them finding the back of the net from deep. Her goal came on first-year player Glenda Zhiminaicela's (Clinton) second assist of the year.
 
The goal was the first since Bolles scored twice in a 3-0 win at Fitchburg State University iin the first week of the season.

The Warriors' third and final goal was from junior Katelyn Herbert (Bethpage, NY) in the 19^th minute, with seniors Sara Honold (Wantage, NJ) and Olivia Davidson (Waterford) credited with their first goals of the season.

Herbert leads the team in goals with four goals on the year, with Cocca taking over the team lead in points (11) with her third goal and team-leading fifth assist.

Cocca set up the first goal when she sent the ball into the box, where junior goalkeeper Emma Ezzo got a hand on it diving toward the right post. Charginig the net from the right side, Bolles chested it down, then one-timed it with her right foot into the goal. Cocca's goal came on a left-footed drive from just above the box which carried over the head of Ezzo and under the crossbar.  Honold began things when she passed the ball back in the middle of the field to Zhiminaicella, who sent it on the left side to Cocca, who evaded one defender and regained her balance before launching her shot. Herbert gave Eastern its third goal in 13 minutes when she got behind the defense on the weak side and scored at the right post. A midfelder, Honold had kept the ball in the offensive zone with a head ball off a Castleton clearaing pass to Davidson, a defender, who in turn, headed it in the box over the Castleton defense to Herbert, who had snuck in behind the defense.

The  three-goal shutout represented the most goals in a shutout by either team in the nine-game series with Castleton, which had won one and tied one in two previous matches against Eastern and McCarthy Field. The loss is the Spartans' fourth in the last five outings. Castleton was coming off a 3-0 home win over Keene State College Wednesday (Keene and Eastern played to a scoreless draw last Saturday at McCarthy Field).
 
Coming into the match, the Spartans (6-6-0, 2-2-0) led the LEC with a .837 save percentage. Junior keeper Emma Ezzo made six saves as her save percentage dropped from .839 to .823.
 
The Warriors outshot the Spartans 20-6.
 
Elise Leccese (Amston) and Faith Corona (Durham), two defensive first-year players, made their career debuts for the Warriors in the match.
 
Eastern hosts Union College (5-2-4) Wednesday at 4 p.m. in a non-conference match in the first meeting between the programs.