MANSFIELD, Pa. - The Daemen College women's soccer team appears to be an offensive juggernaut early in the 2019 season. The Wildcats moved to 2-0 on the season following today's 4-0 defeat of Mansfield University at the MU Soccer Field. Daemen has won its opening two games for just the fifth time in program history, and for the first time since 2014.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Senior Jamie Boyar netted a pair of goals today. marking her second multi-goal game of the season. Boyar broke a scoreless tie with her tally in the 25th minute off a feed from Lindsay Ciaramella (St. George, Ont.). She later added the Wildcats' fourth goal of the game on a penalty kick at the 76:31 mark.
• Sophomore midfielder Grace Stranahan scored for the second time in as many games. Her goal at the 37:32 mark, assisted by freshman Alyssa Mercado (Ontario, Calif.), sent the Wildcats into halftime with a 2-0 lead.
• Mercado struck for her second goal of the season in the 67th minute. She struck after receiving a long feed from classmate Nicole Grichen (North Tonawanda, N.Y.).
• Sophomore Grace Stranahan (Grand Island, N.Y.) scored at the 58:56 mark off a feed from Boyar. 
• Freshman Tori DeLappi (Medina, Ohio) went the distance in goal for the Wildcats, making four saves to pick up the shutout. It marked her collegiate debut after junior Maddie Flores (Seattle, Wash.) started in the Wildcats' season opener vs. Urbana University on Friday.
• Daemen outshot the Mounties 28-9 in the game, placing 10 shots on frame compared to four for the hosts.

HEAD COACH DAN DOLAN POST-GAME COMMENTS
"I was really impressed with our movement off the ball, patience to possess and urgency to combine and score. It was a total team effort today."

• Boyar's first goal of the game was the 40th of her career, becoming just the second player in team history to reach the milestone. She now stands 13 goals shy of the program record for career goals (54) set by Kim Walker from 2003-06, and 14 of her tallies have been game-winners.
• It also marked the 11th multi-goal game of Boyar's career; Daemen is 11-0 in those contests, and 19-5-1 when she scores at least once.
• Boyar also surpassed 90 points for her career. Now with 93 points points, she joins Walker and Samantha Engel as the only players in program history to reach 90. 
• Stranahan and Mercado are the first Daemen players other than Boyar to score in consecutive games since teammate Katja Meyer (Verona, N.Y.) did so in late September last season. Mercado is the first Daemen freshman with multiple goals in the same season since Celia de Pablo Estean (Burgos, Spain) and Sam Hanes (North Tonawanda, N.Y.) in 2017, and she's the first Daemen freshman with goals in back-to-back games since Boyar in 2016.
• Through two games this season, Daemen has outscored their opponents 11-0. It's just the second time in program history that the Wildcats have netted at least 10 goals in the first two games of a season (last done in 2011 when the scored 10). The team's 11-goal spread is also the greatest in program history through two games.
• It also marks just the third time in program history that the Wildcats have opened a season with back-to-back shutouts (previously 2013 and 2009).
• The five 2-0 starts in program history have all come under head coach Dan Dolan who took over in 2009. Today's win was the 90th of Dolan's career. Daemen has never started 3-0.
• The Wildcats snapped a six-game winless drought (0-4-2) in the all-time series with Mansfield. It was Daemen's first win over the Mounties since the teams' first-ever meeting on Sept. 24, 2002 (3-2 final score), and Daemen's first-ever win in four games at MU. Daemen hadn't scored more than a single goal in their last five meetings with the Mounties.

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