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Women's soccer opens season with Kickoff win over Arcadia

HAVERFORD, Pa. — Meg Boyer's first collegiate score proved to be the game-winner Saturday afternoon in the Haverford College women's soccer team's 2-1 victory over visiting Arcadia University in the opening round of the 2010 Kickoff Classic Tournament.

The non-conference battle at Walton Field was tied at the midpoint of the second stanza until Boyer took a feed from Katie Van Aken on the left and blasted a shot past Arcadia netminder Jackie Law to give the Fords (1-0) their second lead of the game.

Sarah Andrade put the Fords ahead in the 11th minute of the opening half with an unassisted score off a scramble in front of Law and the Arcadia (0-2) net.

The lead stood until the 59th minute when Arcadia's Katie O'Malley snuck a free kick into the upper left corner of the Haverford goal from about 15 yards out.

After O'Malley's score neither team was able to generate a shot until Michele Buonora fed a pass down the left to Van Aken whose quick touch set up Boyer's game-winner a little more than eight minutes later.

For the game, the Fords generated eight shots on goal with Law stopping six of them while Kayleigh Herrick-Reynolds stopped three of the four shots she faced between the pipes for Haverford.

The victory puts the Fords into the championship game of their own tournament where they'll square off against Eastern — 3-1 winners over Rutgers-Camden in Saturday's second game — in a Main Line match-up Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. on Walton Field.

Rutgers and Arcadia will follow the championship bout with a consolation game starting approximately at 4:30 p.m.