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ALFRED, N.Y – The Nazareth College women's soccer team took to the road on Tuesday night, dropping host Alfred University 5-0 in an Empire 8 contest.

With the win, Nazareth improves to 8-1-2 overall and 2-0-1 in conference play, while Alfred falls to 1-10-1 and 0-3, respectively.

It didn't take long for the Golden Flyers to get behind the Saxons defense as Briana Vibbard took a bouncing through ball from Katie Trainor and buried it into the net at the 6:32 mark.

Nazareth was able to add two more tallies right before the end of the half.  Paige Sullivan scored off a corner kick with the assist credited to Laura Herman in the 43^rd minute.

Less  than one minute later, Nicole Petocchi scored off a penalty kick for her first career goal to make the score 3-0 at the half.

Petocchi was at it again in the 53^rd minute cashing in on a loose ball.

The Golden Flyers notched their final tally of the game in the 65^th minute as Mary LoCicero threaded a pass to Rachel Dise who scored for the third straight game.

Allison Dobles clocked 64:27 in net making one save.  Mackenzie Dunphy closed out the game for the Golden Flyers.

Nazareth returns to action at 12 p.m. on Saturday when it will host Elmira College.