MAHWAH, N.J. (September 30, 2015) – Senior Sara Corson netted a hat trick in the game's first 37:44 and the Rutgers University-Newark women's soccer team never looked back, cruising to a 3-0 New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) victory Wednesday afternoon at Ramapo College.
 
Rutgers-Newark improves to 9-3-0 overall and 1-2-0 in the NJAC, and also hands host Ramapo its first conference loss of the season. The Roadrunners drop to 6-2-1 overall and 1-1-1 in the conference.
 
Corson now has a league-high 14 goals this season and is tied for the national lead with six game-winning scores. After one score in the team's first three matches of the 2015 season, she has exploded with 13 in the next nine, scoring two or more five times, including three of the last four.
 
Her first tally came a little less than three minutes into the action, getting free from the Ramapo defense and scoring on a breakaway. The goal came just 55 seconds after Corson forced goalkeeper Jessica Cusick to make a save on the Raiders' first bid of the game.
 
The second was assisted by sophomore Nicole Gomez at came in the 20th minute. Gomez was able to get Corson the ball and Corson shook a pair of Roadrunner defenders before netting her 13th. Gomez notched her team-high fifth assist of the season on the play.
 
Senior Cristina Estremera was responsible for the assist on Corson's third goal of the half which gave the Scarlet Raiders the all-important third brace of the match. It was Corson's 14th and Estremera's fourth assist and 14th point.
 
R-N ended the opening half with an 8-6 margin in shots and a 1-0 edge in corner kicks, and sophomore goalkeeper Diana Carvalho made three saves.
 
Ramapo came out with some fight in the early moments of the second stanza, getting off four shots (none on goal) and generating a corner kick, but the R-N defense hung tough and kept the hosts off the board. In total the Roadrunners would take 10 shots in the final 45, but only three were on target.
 
Carvalho ended the match with five saves as the sophomore and the rest of the Scarlet Raider defense recorded their fifth shutout of the season. R-N had five regular-season shutouts in 2014 and has already matched that output this year with eight still left on the ledger.
 
Ramapo held a 16-11 margin in shots when the final horn sounded, and the Raiders had a 7-5 lead in shots on goal. R-N doubled up the Roadrunners in corners, 4-2.
 
Rutgers-Newark will look to even its NJAC record at 2-2 when it visits New Jersey City University Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m.