Scots at Allegheny Wednesday in Lone Match of Week

Simone DiSalvo

The College of Wooster, which enters this week part of a three-way tie for third-place in the North Coast Athletic Conference, has just one match on tap as the Fighting Scots will visit Allegheny College (3-6-2, 1-1-0 NCAC) Wednesday, Oct. 10. Match time is set for 7:30 p.m. Wooster may have revenge on its mind because a 3-0 Allegheny triumph in last year’s meeting during the Scots’ regular season finale cost them the NCAC championship (if Wooster had won, it would have clinched at least a share of the NCAC title). The Gators lead the all-time series between the two by a 15-8-2 margin.

Last Week: Wooster played its third and fourth consecutive overtime matches, winning one and losing one to move to 9-3-1 overall and 1-1-1 in the NCAC.

On Oct. 3, Simone DiSalvo (Reynoldsburg, Ohio / Reynoldsburg) scored midway through a second overtime to give the Scots a 4-3 road victory over NCAC foe Hiram College. For DiSalvo, who had an assist earlier in the match, it marked her third goal of the fall and fourth of her career. Only one of the seven goals came during the first half, as Wooster made Angela Evans’ (Worthington, Ohio / Thomas Worthington) tally, assisted by Chantal Koechli (Greer, S.C. / Brighton – Mich.), on a corner kick in the 20th minute hold up for a 1-0 lead at the break. Hiram scored twice within the first 11:12 of the second half, however, the Scots tied it back up just 1:06 later when DiSalvo set up Laura Ayer’s (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Mt. Lebanon) team-leading seventh goal of the season. It remained 2-2 until Koechli gave Wooster the lead via an unassisted goal – her second this year – in the 75th minute. The Terriers, though, leveled the match again just 50 seconds later, and both offenses quieted down for the final 14:50 of regulation. On Wooster’s third shot of overtime, DiSalvo ended the match. Goalkeeper Abby Brown (Copper Canyon, Texas / Marcus) helped the Scots to the win by making three saves.

On Oct. 6, Wooster finished with a 13-11 shot advantage, but Kenyon College escaped with a 1-0 overtime victory during a key NCAC match-up at Carl Dale Memorial Field. The lone score came 3:30 into the first overtime via a Kenyon free kick from about 30 yards out. Brown posted four saves and there wasn’t anything she could have done about the game-winner.  

NCAC Player of the Week: For her efforts (see above), Wooster’s Simone DiSalvo (Reynoldsburg, Ohio / Reynoldsburg) was the North Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Week for women’s soccer.