Seton Hall University
Notre Dame
Ritter Scores But SHU Falls at ND
10/6/2012 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Ritter, who led Seton Hall with six goals last season and had tallied 13 over her first two seasons in a Seton Hall uniform, did not score her first goal of the season until the Pirates' visit to Syracuse last Friday. But in the 77th minute of the second half against Notre Dame she notched her second, and continued her ascent up the Seton Hall record books.
Junior Brittney Albrecht (Mahwah, N.J.) started the scoring play with a corner kick directly into the box. The ball was initially knocked off the cross bar, but Ritter was right there to clean up the deflection for Seton Hall and score the 15th goal of her career.
She moved into a tie with Rita Massot (2003-06) for sixth place in school history with 33 career-points and she now sits just one goal behind Carley Piagentini (2001-04) for fourth place in program history.
Ritter also tied redshirt senior Stephanie Soma (Franklin, Mass.) for the team lead in BIG EAST scoring with two goals in conference matches; Soma scored both goals in Seton Hall's 2-0 win over Villanova on Sept. 16.
Notre Dame finished the first half with nine shots and took a 2-0 lead into the half behind a goal from Elizabeth Tucker in the 17th minute Katie Naughton in the 23rd minute.
The Fighting Irish added two more goals, another for Tucker, this time in the 53rd minute, and one from Lauren Bohaboy, before Ritter's score for Seton Hall. Less than two minutes later Albrecht recorded the Pirates's second shot on net, but she was turned away by Naomi Willett.
Anna Gilbertson rounded out the scoring for Notre Dame, picking up her fourth goal of the season in the 88th minute.
The Pirates conclude their four-game road swing at DePaul University on Sunday, Oct. 7, in Chicago, Ill. The meeting will be just the eighth in school history between SHU and DePaul, with the Blue Demons holding a slight 3-2-2 edge in the all-time series.
Seton Hall defeated DePaul, 3-1, last season on Senior Day in South Orange, snapping a three-game losing streak the Midwest foe. DePaul enters Sunday's match with a 7-6-1 overall record and a 2-3 mark in the BIG EAST, and the Blue Demons are coming off a 1-0 loss to Rutgers at home on Friday night.
Game time for Sunday afternoon is scheduled for 2 p.m. (ET).
