ROCHESTER, NY -- The RIT (12-3-2) women's soccer team is the No. 2 seed in the 2015 Liberty League Women's Soccer Tournament and will host No. 3 seed St. Lawrence University (12-3-2) in the semifinals on Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 1:30 p.m. at Tiger Stadium on the campus of RIT. The advancing team will face the winner between No. 1 seed William Smith and No. 4 seed Vassar College in the championship game on Saturday, Nov. 7 at the highest remaining seed.
RIT finished the regular season second in the Liberty League standings with 19 points after a 1-0 loss to William Smith in last Saturday's regular season finale. St. Lawrence enters Wednesday as the third seed in this year's tournament. The Saints were 4-3-1 in Liberty League play with 13 points.
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RIT comes into Wednesday's game third in the league in scoring, averaging 2.12 goals per game, having out scored its opponents 36-10. Senior
Elizabeth May (Pittsford, NY/Pittsford Sutherland) leads the Tigers in scoring with 14 points on six goals and two assists. Junior
Anka Parzych (Niskayuna, NY/Niskayuna) and senior
Quincey Ornellas (Moorpark, CA/Moorpark) are tied for second on the team in scoring with 13 points. Parzych is tied with May with six goals, while Ornellas had five goals and three assists.
The Tigers are second in the Liberty League allowing 0.57 goals per game. RIT has held its opponents to just 10 goals in 17 games, with nine shut outs.
Sienna Fisher (Lewisburg, PA/Lewisburg Area) and
Kelly Rogers (Ardmore, PA/Haverford) split time in goal this season. Rogers posted a 7-2-1 record, while Fisher went 5-1-1 in 2015. Fisher was second in the league with a .913 save percentage. Rogers finished the third in league play with a 0.79 goals against average, and was fourth with a .830 save percentage.
St. Lawrence enters Wednesday second in the league in scoring, averaging 2.47 goals per game. The Saints have out scored their opponents, 42-13 on the season.  The Saints have scored two or more goals 10 times this season. Kaleigh White leads the team and is tops in the league in scoring with 29 points on 14 goals and an assist, averaging 1.71 points per game. Katie Stames is second on the team in scoring with 23 points on seven goals and leads the league with nine assists.
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St. Lawrence is third in the league defensively, allowing 0.75 goals per game. The Saints have allowed just 13 goals this season, including six shut outs. Kelsey West has played the majority of the minutes in net for St. Lawrence, posting a 12-3-2 record. She is second in the league with a 0.79 goals against average, and a .787 save percentage, to go along with six shut outs.
St. Lawrence leads the all-time series between the two schools, 14-6-3. The two teams met at Tiger Stadium back on Sept. 26 as RIT came out with the 1-0 win. Freshman
Riley Yankowich (Norristown, PA/Germantown Academy) tallied the game-winning goal in the 54th minute off an assist from
Courtney Hunt (Brockport, NY/Brockport).
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