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Seton Hall Opens 2022 Campaign Against La Salle

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South Orange, N.J. – The Seton Hall women's soccer team returns to action on Thursday as it opens the Josh Osit Era at home against La Salle at 6 p.m. at Owen T. Carroll Field.

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OSIT JOINS THE HALL

  • Head coach Josh Osit, a New Jersey native who has had success as a recruiter and tactician within Northeast Div. I soccer for a decade, enters his first season as the head coach at Seton Hall.
  • Osit, who spent the last eight seasons as an assistant coach at Columbia University, becomes the fifth head coach in the 28-year history of Seton Hall women's soccer.
  • Between 2015 and 2017, the Lions were the only women's soccer program to finish top three in the Ivy league all three seasons.
  • Columbia became a top-50 RPI team for the first time in program history in 2019 and reached as high as No. 28 in the RPI in 2021, the highest ranking in program history.
  • Prior to his time at Columbia, Osit spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Rutgers, where he was a part of a Scarlet Knights program that received back-to-back NCAA Tournament at-large bids in 2012 and 2013 and won an NCAA Tournament first round match in 2012
  • Rutgers' combined record over Osit's two seasons was 26-12-6 (.659) and featured an appearance in the 2013 AAC Championship final.
  • On the club level, Osit has excelled with Players Development Academy (PDA) based in New Jersey where he helped produce over 20 players that have been called into U.S. Youth National Camps.
QUICK KICKS

  • Seton Hall has seen steady improvement over the last three seasons and in 2021 the Pirates finished with six, their most in a season since 2012.
  • The team's win at Villanova was the program's first over the Wildcats since 2013 and its first BIG EAST road win since 2011.
  • Seton Hall's six goal outburst in a win over Iona was the program's most goals scored in a match since 2008.
  • The Pirates return its top two goal scorers from last season in senior forwards Naomi Welch (Livingston, Scotland) and Julia Aronov (New Hyde Park, N.Y.) who both tallied four goals.
  • Senior Grace Gordon (Chester Springs, Pa.) returns for her third season between the pipes for the Pirates where she has racked up 143 saves in 28 games over two full seasons.
  • The Pirates are bolstered by a strong sophomore class that features Natalie Tavana (Middletown, Conn.), who started and played in all 18 matches last season and tallied three assists and two goals, and Chiara Pucci (Munich, Germany) who made 10 starts and played in 821 minutes at center back.
 

Pirates Fall In Season Opener To La Salle, 1-0​


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South Orange, N.J. -- The Seton Hall women's soccer team shutout La Salle in the second half but a goal with 15 minutes to play in the first half put the Explorers ahead for good as they defeated the Pirates, 1-0, at Owen T. Carroll Field on Thursday evening.

How It Happened

Both sides were even early as both were playing their first games of the season. The first shot and shot on target came nearly five minutes into the contest and it was saved by senior Grace Gordon (Chester Springs, Pa.), making her 29th appearance between the pipes for the Pirates.

La Salle continued to control the pace in the latter half of the first when they found the back of the net at the 30:24 mark. Junior Maille McDermott (Nashua, N.H.) was perhaps the most active Pirate in the first as she produced a shot that went over top in the 38th minute and created a chance with a shot on goal with two minutes to play before the halftime whistle.

The Hall held its own in a physical second half where freshman Abby DeCola (Mahopac, N.Y.) had a shot that was saved in the 55th minute and senior Naomi Welch (Livingston, Scotland) had her best chance of the night to score off of a free kick taken by junior Brina Micheels (Plattsburgh, N.Y.).

News & Notes
  • McDermott played a career-high 43 minutes and led the team with three shots, also a career best.
  • Thursday marked the first game as head coach for Josh Osit
  • Welch and sophomore Phoebe Hampson (Cheshire, England) both tallied two shots a piece.
  • Gordon, sophomore Natalie Tavana (Middletown, Conn.), sophomore Rachel Gerrie (Littleton, Colo.), junior Alex Fuggle (London, England) adn sophomore Chiara Pucci (Munich, Germany) played the full 90 minutes.
  • DeCola, Emma Sheehan (Argyle, Texas) and Sarah Mitchell (Perth, Australia) were three freshmen that came off the bench and played significant minutes.

Up Next

The Pirates will travel to Central Connecticut State on Sunday for a 6 p.m. match.
 
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