The Lancaster Bible College women's soccer team faced a familiar foe on Saturday as the Chargers traveled to Houghton, N.Y. to face the Highlanders and though they finally scored, the Chargers once again fell to Houghton, this time by a score of 3-1. The loss drops the Chargers to 0-2 this season, while Houghton improved to 2-0.

How it Happened: The teams battled back and forth during the opening 20 minutes and Houghton got on the board first on a goal by Cassie Pensyl at the 23:35 mark. The score remained the same through halftime, but both offenses woke up in the opening minutes of the second half as the host Highlanders scored twice in 1:01 to increase their lead to 3-0. 

Lancaster Bible answered right back just over five minutes later as Abi Brady scored her second goal of the season off of a pass from Alyssa Wesner to cut the Chargers' deficit to one. The Chargers continued to have chances in the second half and earned a penalty kick late in the game, but Raegan Horst's opportunity went wide and Houghton hung on for the two-goal victory.

By the Numbers: Lancaster Bible outshot Houghton, 10-9 for the game and 7-4 in the second half...Brady now has both of Lancaster Bible's goals this season...Senior Kaitlyn Scheuing made three saves in the loss.

The Coach Says: "We played well today," Lancaster Bible Head Coach Leah Sipe-McDermott said. "The first goal was a bit of miscommunication by our defense and Kaitlyn, but there wasn't anything they could do about the second goal, as it was a very nice play by Houghton. After we went down, 3-0, we completely changed the momentum and Alyssa had a great pass to Abi on our goal. Our effort was completely different, in a positive way, from Thursday's game and the girls went all-out for 90 minutes. I couldn't ask anything else of the team today and I'm happy with their effort. We are excited to begin NEAC play on Thursday and to get started with our conference schedule."

Information Hodge Podge: This was the fourth time in the past 34 games for Lancaster Bible that they have played Houghton...The Highlanders won the 2015 NCCAA Division I National Championship...Brady had two goals all of last season and now has two goals in two games this year...The Chargers return to New York in two weeks where they will face Morrisville State and Cazenovia.

Up Next: Lancaster Bible heads to Penn St. Abington on Thursday to face the Nittany Lions at 4 p.m.