Troy, NY – Junior
Alice Crowley (St. Louis, MO) finished with five points, senior
Gianna Panarelli (Jensen Beach, FL) recorded a goal and an assist and sophomore
Samantha Ehrenreich (Palmetto Bay, FL) scored her first career goal as the #17 Vassar College Women's Soccer team got back into the win column with a 5-0 road win at RPI Wednesday night.
Wednesday's win moves Vassar to 8-1-4 overall on the season and 4-1-2 in Liberty League play with the Engineers falling to 4-5-5 overall and 0-5-1 against league opponents.
How It Happened
- Vassar got all the scoring it would need in the fourth minute when Panarelli one-timed a centering pass from Crowley into the back of the net at 3:39 for an early 1-0 advantage.
- The Brewers doubled their lead in the 12th minute when Crowley found the back of the net off of assists from Lucy Hart (Portland, ME) and Mollie McLaughlin (Seattle, WA) at 11:55.
- Crowley potted her second goal of the game just over six minutes later when Panarelli returned the favor with an assist at 17:57 to close out the scoring in the first half.
- The Brewers outshot RPI 7-3 before halftime.
- RPI held a 4-1 advantage in corner kicks at the intermission.
- Laura Shea (Swarthmore, PA) held RPI off the board in the opening 45 minutes with a pair of saves.
- The Brewers tacked on two more goals in the second frame on Wednesday starting with Caroline Sheehan's (Springfield, IL) third goal of the season in the 53rd minute. Zoe Sharaf (Middleton, WI) and Maddie Harmon (Torrance, CA) earned the helpers on the Brewers' fourth goal of the game.
- Ehrenreich closed out the scoring in the game at the 86:31 mark when she blasted her first career goal under the bar off a feed from Grace Romano (Bordentown, NJ).
- Vassar held a 5-2 advantage in shots after halftime.
- RPI finished the second frame with three of the four corner kicks taken.
- Shea finished off the shutout with one second half save.
For The Brewers
- Crowley scored her eighth and ninth goals and pushed her team lead in points to 20 following Wednesday's five-point effort.
- Panarelli scored her sixth goal and recorded her fourth assist of the year, moving her season point total to 16. The marker was Panarelli's team leading third game winning goal of the year.
- With her third goal of the season, Sheehan became the third Brewer to reach double figures in points with 10 to date in 2026.
- Ehrenreich found the back of the net for the first time in her career with Wednesday's marker.
- Hart and McLaughlin each picked up their first assists of the season on the Brewers' second goal of the game.
- Harmon notched her second helper of the year on the Sheehan tally.
- Sharaf picked up her first career assist on the Brewers' fourth goal.
- Romano recorded her first point of the season with a helper on the closing goal.
- Shea earned her seventh shutout of the season with three saves in the game and is now working to a 0.26 goals against average and an .889 save percentage.
For The Engineers
- Ava Gaboury finished the night with two saves in goal for RPI.
- Maddy Kaminski led the team with two shots.
Game Statistics
- Vassar outshot RPI 12-5 overall and 7-3 in shots on goal.
- Corner kicks went to the Engineers by a 7-2 count.
What's Next
- Vassar returns home to host Skidmore on Senior Day Saturday afternoon.
- RPI hosts St. Lawrence on Saturday.
