Syracuse, N.Y. – Junior midfielder Stephanie Liberati (Liverpool, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) scored the game's only goal with just under six minutes remaining to give the Le Moyne College women's soccer team a 1-0 victory over Roberts Wesleyan College on Thursday afternoon in the season opener for both teams at Ted Grant Field. The victory marked the first in the tenure of first-year head coach Carrie Bonus.

Le Moyne had its first scoring chance just 16 seconds into the game as junior forward Kirsten Colegrove (Athens, Pa./Athens) intercepted a Roberts Wesleyan pass and carried the ball into the penalty box unmarked, but her shot was turned away by Redhawks goalkeeper Kelsey Brinkel.

The Dolphins took seven shots the remainder of the opening half, including five on target, but could not find the back of the net. Roberts Wesleyan had four shots in the first half, including one on net, but also could not convert.

In the second half, Roberts Wesleyan had three chances in a span of 2:18, but was not able to capitalize on those chances. Bella Mitrevski, the ECC Preseason Player of the Year after tallying 45 points on 18 goals and nine assists last year, had shots at 57:19 and 58:02, but put each just wide left. She had another attempt at the 59:35 mark, but sophomore goalkeeper Anastasija Cumika (Riga, Latvia/Riga Kengarags/West Florida) turned the shot away. Israela Groves rifled the rebound back at the net, but Cumika stopped that shot as well.

After misfiring on their first 10 shots of the second half, including a pair that were rejected by Brinkel, the Dolphins netted the only goal they would need. Following a shot by sophomore midfielder Kelsi Fredericks (Cazenovia, N.Y./Cazenovia/SUNY Oswego) that was blocked by a Roberts Wesleyan defender, senior forward Rachel Terry (Vestal, N.Y./Vestal) collected the loose ball. She tapped the ball over to Liberati, who slipped a shot from the penalty-kick stripe into the lower left corner of the net at the 84:02 mark for her third career goal.

Cumika registered three saves between the pipes in her Dolphin debut. The win marked the ninth of her collegiate career after she went 8-2 with a 0.74 goals against average and a .704 save percentage over a team-best 969 minutes between the pipes as a freshman at the University of West Florida last season. Brinkel recorded nine saves in the loss in her collegiate debut. Le Moyne finished with a 20-9 advantage in shots and recorded five of the game's seven corner kicks.

Le Moyne (1-0), which snapped a streak of three straight season-opening losses to the Redhawks, returns to action on Monday against Daemen College at 11:00 a.m. The shutout is the first in the season opener since a 6-0 victory over St. Thomas Aquinas in 2009 and the first in the home opener since a 5-0 win over Molloy in 2006.