BOX SCORE BETHLEHEM, Pa. (August 31, 2014) - For the second consecutive year, the Saint Francis University field hockey team opened its season with a win over Lehigh, this time it was a 5-2 victory on the road.

Autumn Pellman (Millerstown, Pa./Greenwood), the program's all-time leading scorer, started her senior season off with three goals against the Mountain Hawks. The first came just two and a half minutes in to give SFU the 1-0 advantage. The goal was off a penalty corner feed from fellow senior Nikki Snyder (Harveys Lake, Pa./Lake-Lehman).

Mackenzie Wirth (Thompsontown, Pa./Greenwood) scored the next goal, the first of her collegiate career, off a pass inside from Elizabeth Momeyer (Harrison City, Pa./Penn Trafford) and the Red Flash took a 2-0 lead 14 minutes into the game.

Pellman scored her second of the afternoon off another Snyder pass from a penalty corner and Saint Francis took a 3-0 lead into the halftime break. Pellman also started the scoring for SFU in the second half at the 55 minute mark when she took a pass from freshman Shannon Pereira (Toronto, Ontario, Canada/Francis Libermann Catholic) and beat Lehigh keeper Katie Morris to give SFU a 4-0 lead.

The Mountain Hawks responded a minute later with its first goal of the game off a penalty corner. 10 minutes later Lehigh struck again to get within two after a rebound was put in past SFU keeper Samantha Zeiders (Hummelstown, Pa./Lower Dauphin).

Snyder then put the Red Flash' fifth tally on the board after a flurry in front of the net off a feed from Carissa Makea (Auckland, New Zealand/Rosehill College) and the Flash led 5-2 with less than three minutes to go, that would end up the final score.

Zeiders finished with eight saves for Saint Francis and Makea picked up a defensive save, the senior led the Flash with five in 2013. Pellman finished with a game-high seven shots, six of them coming on goal.

Saint Francis is back at it tomorrow as it travels to Rider for a 1 p.m. match-up.