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Lerner's Hat Trick Paces Women's Soccer in 4-0 Shutout vs. Medgar Evers

Meira Lerner, sporting the t-shirts that YU student-athletes are wearing in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, netted the hat trick against the Cougars.
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YONKERS, N.Y. - Senior midfielder Meira Lerner (Sharon, Mass.) netted the first hat trick of her storied three-year collegiate career Friday afternoon at Tibbetts Brook Park, as the Yeshiva University women's soccer team picked up its first victory of the 2012 campaign via the clean sheet, with a 4-0 triumph in a Hudson Valley Women's Athletic Conference (HVWAC) matchup against visiting Medgar Evers College.

By virtue of the victory, YU captured the No. 3 seed for the upcoming four-team, HVWAC Championships. The Maccabees will travel to Staten Island, N.Y., Sunday (Oct. 28) for a 12 noon semifinals kick-off against second-seeded Berkeley College. The match will be played at the College of Staten Island.

Lerner's hat trick is the Macs' first since Sept. 13, 2009, when Atara Kanarfogel pulled off the triple against Berkeley College.

Yeshiva experienced a 46-0 shots advantage on the afternoon against a shorthanded Cougars side, and Lerner provided the breakthrough tally off a restart in the 19th minute of play. Sophomore midfielder Sarah Alt (Buffalo, N.Y.) took a left-side throw-in just outside the area, and threw the ball in to Lerner just inside the box. Lerner took one touch, before beating the MEC keeper to the top-right of the goal, giving the Macs a lead they would never relinquish.

Four minutes into the second half, Lerner took advantage of a turnover from a high-playing Cougars back line. She walked in alone on goal from roughly 30 yards away, and calmly finished to the lower-left corner to double YU's advantage.

Yeshiva took a 3-0 lead in the 61st minute when Medgar Evers's clearing attempt careened into the back of its own goal, before Lerner completed the hat trick. With 10 minutes remaining in the contest, the ball bounced around the Cougars' goal box off a Maccabees corner. The ball landed at the feet of Lerner, who deposited the ball into the top-right of the net to account for the final score.

The YU back line rarely allowed Medgar Evers across the midfield line, as the Maccabees played solid team soccer in front of senior keeper Shoshana Taube (Sharon, Mass.) to earn their first clean sheet of the season.

Interim head coach Christine Serdjenian Yearwood's YU side returns to action in less than 48 hours in the aforementioned HVWAC semifinal on Sunday.
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