EASTON, Pa. (Sept. 3, 2010) – For 73 minutes, senior goalkeeper Lauren Fearer (Mount Pleasant, Pa./Mount Pleasant Area) (Mount Pleasant, Pa./Mount Pleasant Area) kept the Saint Francis University women's soccer team in the game. Then, Haleigh Dunyon (Long Beach, Calif./Woodrow Wilson) (Long Beach, Calif./Woodrow Wilson) made sure they won it, firing the night's only goal in a, 1-0, win over in-state rival Lafayette on Friday night.

Fearer – a team captain playing in her first match of the season – stopped four shots and earned a shutout to give the Red Flash a much-needed win to up their record to 3-2 on the young season. The victory snapped a two-game skid for SFU, who dropped to .500 last weekend after opening the season with back-to-back wins.

Despite out-shooting the Leopards 15-to-6, the Flash where unable to put a shot past Lafayette goalkeeper Lauren Smedley for much of the evening, until Duyon fired the game-winner with less than seven minutes to go in regulation.

Tesa McKibben (Cogan Station, Pa./Montoursville) (Cogan Station, Pa./Montoursville) notched the assist, snapping the longest point-scoring drought of her eight-game collegiate career at two contests. The sophomore forward wasn't without her chances, however, firing a match-high eight shots, two of which were on goal.

Friday's meeting marked the first between Lafayette, which entered the game at 2-0, and Saint Francis on the women's soccer pitch.

The Red Flash resume action on Sunday when they visit Rider for a 2 p.m. contest.