Oakford, PA - The Highlander's women's soccer team were in action on Saturday, September 1 to kick-off their season against Penn St.-Abington at the United German-Hungarian football club.

Box Score

Cairn University was making its season debut while Penn St.-Abington was playing their second game in as many days, having defeated Rosemont College 3-1.

The game was a low scoring, back and forth affair, despite Penn State having the better of the shots category. Senior goalkeeper Sara Poole (Edison, NJ / Timothy Christian) made 5 saves in the game, including one on a breakaway that kept the game 0-0. However, the Lion's Brittany Palmer found the back of the net in the 53rd minute. Palmer put a nicely placed header in from a cross from Kaitlin Kozole that broke the deadlock.

Once the Lions had the lead, they locked down defensively limiting the Highlanders to only 2 shots in the second half and effectively killed off the game.

Cairn's freshman Rachel Clark (Stratford, NJ / Sterling) marked her collegiate debut by recording 3 shots, most on the team. Kathleen Meacham (Conestoga, PA / Penn Manor) and Morgan Swan (Caribou, ME / Caribou) had the Highlanders other two shots in the game.

Abington outshot the Highlanders 17-5 and had the advantage in corners 5-0.

The women's team will travel down to Harrisonburg, VA on Wednesday, September 5 to play a double-header with the men's soccer team against Eastern Mennonite University. Kick-off for the women's game is scheduled for 4:30pm.