Langhorne, PA - Under a steady rain the Cairn Highlanders earned their first CSAC victory of the season on Saturday afternoon against Keystone University by a 1-0 final score. Meghan Wilson scored her ninth goal of the season for the contest's lone goal. Wilson scored in the 16th minute off a corner.

The Highlanders opened the game with the first two shots with an attempt by Wilson in the 7th minute going wide and a shot by Hannah Morrison in the 8th minute that was saved.

After the initial attempts by the Highlanders, the Giants took the momentum with the next three shots including a corner kick.

The Highlanders earned a corner kick in the 15th minute. Katie Ruitto sent the corner into the box and after it bounced around it landed at the foot of Meghan Wilson on the right-side of the box. Wilson took two touches and fired a shot to the far post that found the back of the net to give the Highlanders an early 1-0 lead.

Wilson's goal came early in the 16th minute and ended up being her third game-winning goal of the season.

Just minutes after the go ahead tally the Giants turned up the pressure. In the 19th minute alone Keystone took three-straight shots that were all turned away by Cairn keeper Payton Emerick. Emerick was making her first career start between the pipes after playing the second-half against Neumann on Tuesday.

Emerick made 12 saves in her first full game in goal en route to her first career shutout.

"It's a totally different mindset going from an offensive player that all I'm focused on is scoring and then the polar opposite mindset to nobody scoring," said Payton Emerick after her first game in goal. "I was just trying to think what would I do on offense? And that was what I was guarding against. My defense, they saved me so many times."

Emerick knows a thing or two about the thought process of an offensive player. She has amassed 10 points this season with three goals and four assists. On her career she has collected 24 points with six goals and two assists a year ago.

The stellar play in goal continued to the second-half where Emerick made four saves to protect the clean sheet. After a pair of early saves in the 48th and 55th minutes, Emerick made one of her best saves of the afternoon in the 73rd minute. Keystone's Hannah Richner came from the left-side of the box and ripped a shot that looked to be from point-blank range just outside the six. Emerick went sliding to her knees with her arms extended to the sides - as she did multiple times throughout the match - and the shot went directly off her face.

"I went down and that one hit me square in the face," said Emerick. "Everyone was yelling great save. I was doing everything I could to get something in front of the shot."

Behind Emerick's effort in goal and the tally from Meghan Wilson the Highlanders won their first conference match of the season despite being outshot 23-9.

The win improves the Highlanders to 1-4-0 in the CSAC and 4-6-0 overall. Cairn will next take the field on Wednesday when they host Rosemont at 3:30 p.m.