UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Highlighted by a marquee performance from freshman forward Aubrey Kulpa that included her first collegiate brace, the No. 3 Penn State women’s soccer team battled for a solid 5-0 win over the West Chester Golden Rams Sunday afternoon at Jeffrey Field.
Following Sunday afternoon’s showing at home, the Nittany Lions improve to 2-1-0 overall with all three results coming at home on Jeffrey Field. PSU climbs to 2-0 overall in the all-time series with the Golden Rams dating back to the first meeting last year on Jeffrey Field that the Blue & White took by an 8-0 margin. West Chester awaits the start of its 2024 campaign on Thursday, September 5, with a 6 p.m. (ET) road fixture scheduled against Division II rival Holy Family University in Philadelphia. Sunday’s contest against the Nittany Lions does not count toward WCU’s overall season record.
The Nittany Lions were dominant in every facet of the competition, with PSU racking up a historic 42-0 differential in shot attempts. Penn State held its opponent without a single shot attempt in a match for just the second time in program history, with the Blue & White last accomplishing that feat on October 20, 2000. Penn State also recorded their second-most shots in a single match in school history, falling just behind last year’s 45-shot effort against the Golden Rams. PSU mustered 16 shots on goal in the contest, also winning the corner kick battle by a 5-0 margin.
On an individual basis, Kulpa stood out as an impressive contributor on the offensive end of the pitch, mustering her first collegiate brace with goals coming just moments before and after the halftime intermission. Kulpa, a native of Cromwell, Connecticut, stands on three goals through her first three collegiate matches, adding her first collegiate start to her impressive young resume in addition to a career-high-tying four shot effort. Elsewhere in the lineup, redshirt senior forward Kaitlyn MacBean extended her goal-scoring streak to six consecutive matches, finding the back of the net for the opening score of the contest in the 11th minute. MacBean owns a trio of scores and six total points through the first three matches of the season, adding three shots in the affair.
Graduate midfielder Rowan Lapi contributed her second goal of the 2024 season as well as her second score since transferring to PSU, converting on a first half penalty kick won by a MacBean sprint into the box. Graduate forward Elle Kershner found…
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