August 28, 2009
 GREENVILLE, Tenn. - The Mars Hill women's soccer team lost its season opening match to No 22-ranked Texas A&M-Commerece 5-0 Thursday night in the first game of the Tusculum Tournament. The Texas A&M-Commerece Lions improve to 1-0, while the Mars Hill College Lions drop to 0-1.
Texas A&M-Commerce jumped out to a 4-0 advantage in the first half as sophomore transfer Devon Hermann scored her first of two goals and assisted on another for the early lead. Hermann added another goal in the 64th minute for the hat trick.
In the win, Texas A&M-Commerece outshot Mars Hill by a 33-to-4 margin. Goalkeepers Taylor Jordan and Randi Hafele made three saves in the shutout.
Hermann put Texas A&M-Commerece on the board in the sixth minute when she capitalized on a corner kick that was deflected by teammates Whitney Hancock and Meagan Lasley into the bottom right corner. Next, Lasley scored her first goal of the season when her crossing shot was deflected by a Mars Hill defender and into the back of the net to extend the Texas A&M-Commerce margin to 2-0. In the 41st minute, Texas A&M-Commerce stretched its lead to 3-0 on Hermann’s second goal of the night. Approximately three minutes later, junior Chelsey Haight added the fourth goal of the opening half when she took a crossing pass from Hermann and blasted it into the bottom left corner off Becca Sellars' hands. With a 4-0 lead, Hermann got the hat trick when she took a long cutting shot that went past Sellars in the top right corner of the goal.
Sellars made 14 saves for Mars Hill.
Mars Hill will next face Davis & Elkins in the last game of the Tusculum Tournament on Sunday. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m.
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