{"id":929990,"date":"2026-10-12T07:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T07:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/929990\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T07:50:14","slug":"womens-soccer-tops-njit-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/929990\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s soccer tops NJIT, 2-0"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORONO, Maine \u2013 Abbey Thornton<\/a> and Isabella Meadows<\/a> scored to power the University of Maine women’s soccer team past NJIT, 2-0, on Sunday at the New Balance Soccer Complex.<\/p>\n

Maine took a 1-0 lead exactly twenty minutes into the game when Abbey Thornton<\/a> flicked Luise Reinwald’s<\/a> shot with her left foot and redirected the ball to the far post.<\/p>\n

Isabella Meadows<\/a> doubled the lead for the Black Bears in the 65th minute, running onto a ball and taking a few touches past a charging keeper before slotting the ball home for her fifth of the season.<\/p>\n

The Black Bear defense did not allow a shot attempt in the second half and Elena Barenberg<\/a> secured her fourth shutout of the season.<\/p>\n

Maine’s seniors \u2013 Victoria Dungey<\/a>, Luise Reinwald<\/a>, Abbey Thornton<\/a>, Amanda Clauzel<\/a>, Meghan Bernetti<\/a> and Grace Johnson<\/a> \u2013 were honored in Senior Day ceremony before the contest.<\/p>\n

NOTES
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\n\tMaine had the 17-3 edge in shots.
\n\tThe Black Bears had a 6-0 edge in corner kicks.
\n\tElena Barenberg<\/a> made two saves in moving to 5-4-3 on the year.
\n\tMaine is now 2-2-3 in the all-time series with NJIT.
\n\tAbbey Thornton<\/a> scored her first goal of the season.
\n\tIsabella Meadows<\/a> recorded one goal and one assist for a career-high three points.
\n\tMeghan Bernetti<\/a> and Olivia Grisdale<\/a> played the full 90 minutes for Maine. <\/p>\n

RECORDS<\/p>\n


\n\tMaine: 5-4-3, 2-1-1 America East \u00a0
\n\tNJIT: 4-8-1, 1-4-0 America East <\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n


\n\tMaine will travel to New Hampshire for 2 p.m. game on Sunday, Oct. 18. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORONO, Maine \u2013 Abbey Thornton and Isabella Meadows scored to power the University of Maine women’s soccer team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-929990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}