KEENE, N.H. 10/3/09 - Five different players found the back of the net in Keene State's 5-0 shutout victory over Rhode Island College in Little East Conference women's soccer action at Owl Athletic Complex on Saturday. 

Winners of seven of their last eight games, Keene State improves to 9-2 (3-0 LEC) while Rhode Island College falls to 1-7 (0-3 LEC).  The Owls are tied for the top spot in the LEC with UMass-Boston, which plays at Eastern Conn. later today.

Senior Kendra Spencer (Petoskey, Mich.) and sophomore Leah Teter (Granville, Mass.) scored first half goals for the Owls.  Junior Katie Bradford (Lebanon, N.H.), freshman Mary Lake (Portsmouth, R.I.), and sophomore Brittany Watkinson (Rochester, N.H.) were second half scorers for KSC, which blasted the RIC net with 43 shots.

Keene State didn't waste any time getting on the board. Spencer put the Owls ahead 1-0 at the 2:37 mark when her shot for 20-yards out went over the outstretched hand of RIC junior goalie Maddie Pirri (Bristol, R.I.) and into the net for her second goal of the season.

Bradford had a chance to extend the Owls lead later in the half, but her drive was deflected over the net by Pirri, who finished the game with 20 saves.      

Teter gave KSC a 2-0 lead right before the end of the half when she got control of a loose ball on the right side and fired a shot into the top corner at 41:53.

Freshman Libby Lazer (Wakefield, R.I.) had an opportunity to get the Anchorwomen on the board when she went down the right side, but her bid was denied by Owl sophomore goalie Megan Dempsey (East Weymouth, Mass.).  

A busy Pirrini kept it a two goal game when she came across and made a diving save off the foot of Owl senior Molly Brunelle (Walpole, N.H.) at the 37:40 mark.

Bradford converted a crossing ball from junior Nora Mahoney (Belchertown, Mass.) to give KSC a 3-0 lead. It was Bradford's team-leading seventh goal of the season.

Lake made it 5-0 with her first college goal at the 72:56 mark. The first-year back lofted a shot just inside the box that landed into the net. Five minutes later, Watkinson completed the scoring for the Owls with an unassisted goal.   

Dempsey made one save for KSC before giving way to senior Samantha Hirsh (Holliston, Mass.), whom played the final 4:34 of the game.

Keene State is at Westfield State on Wednesday. Rhode Island College has the week off before hosting Plymouth State next Saturday.