Courtesy Amherst Sports Information

NORTON, Mass. - First-year Meg Murphy (Springfield, Mass.) scored the first two goals of the game as the Amherst College women's soccer team upended Wheaton College, 3-0, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday in Mirrione Stadium. The Lord Jeffs improved to 14-2-1 and avenged a 1-0 loss to the Lyons earlier in the season, while the Blue and White finished the season with a 21-2-1 mark and saw their 19-game unbeaten streak come to an end. This was the teams' third NCAA Tournament meeting in the last six years, as the Lord Jeffs also won in 2001 before the Lyons took the 2003 clash.

Murphy tallied her first goal just 22 seconds into the contest, as Amherst controlled possession following its kickoff. Senior Lesley Pruzansky (Saratoga, Calif.) sent a cross from the left side to Murphy, who knocked a shot from the slot into an open net for the eventual game-winner. She converted again in the 19th minute, catching up to a pass from sophomore Natalie Ferraiolo (Palo Alto, Calif.) and firing the ball into the left side of the net despite junior goalkeeper Stacey Kronenberg's (Belchertown, Mass.) deflection.

Wheaton nearly got on the board less than seven minutes later, as first-year Kathleen Carroll (New Paltz, N.Y.) got free at the top of the box and sent a shot toward the lower left corner of the net, but senior Piper Crowell (San Rafael, Calif.) stretched out and made a diving save. Junior Lauren Konopka (Medford, N.J.) also nearly scored for the Lyons, missing wide-left from 20 yards out two minutes later.