BOX SCORE

BRUNSWICK, Maine - Wheaton's Jessica Stuart scored the game's only goal with 8:24 remaining to lift the 24th-ranked Lyons women's soccer team to a 1-0 win at Bowdoin on Saturday. Wheaton improves to 7-0 this season while the Polar Bears fall to 1-2 overall.

A back-and-forth contest resulted in a scoreless draw at the half. Bowdoin out-shot the visitors in the opening stanza, but the Lyons upped the offensive pressure in the second period, as the Polar Bear back line swept aside several good chances. Wheaton's best opportunity to break through came with 10 minutes remaining when Cassey Muse broke into the box and fired a shot that Bowdoin netminder Kat Flaherty deflected to the wing. Wheaton's Emily Vincunas lined up a hard shot towards an open net, but her volley was blocked by Bowdoin's Molly Duffy to keep the game scoreless.

Just two minutes later, a flurry of action at the top of the Bowdoin defensive zone resulted in a loose ball towards the goal. Stuart beat all Bowdoin defenders to the ball and lofted a shot just over the head of Flaherty and below the crossbar to give the Lyons a one-goal lead. Bowdoin responded in kind, pushing the action towards the Wheaton goal. The best Polar Bear chance came with 2:30 remaining when Ellery Gould played a beautiful ball from the right wing that found the head of Celeste Swain, who knocked it towards the net. But Wheaton's Lindsay Leddy made a diving stop to seal the victory for the Lyons.

Flaherty finished with 12 saves in the defeat for Bowdoin, while Leddy made six stops for Wheaton.