THROGGS NECK, N.Y. – The Maritime women's soccer team recorded a program record on Wednesday evening with 50 shots, as the Privateers coasted to a 9-0 non-conference victory over the York Cardinals on Reinhart Field.
 
The Privateers were led by five different players that recorded goals on the night, highlighted by freshman Caitlin Etienne (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City) having a breakout game with the first four goals of her career. In addition to the four from Etienne, the Privateers also got a pair of goals from freshman Sara Wright (East Islip, N.Y./East Islip), and single goals from sophomore Leigh Kouril (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Yorktown), and freshmen Lexie Gula (Cheshire, Conn./Cheshire) and MacKenzie Fabiani (Bayport, N.Y./Bayport-Blue Point).
 
Gula had a big night distributing the ball as she notched three assists on the night. Fabiani and fellow freshman Nikki DellaSperanza (Huntington, N.Y./Long Island Lutheran) added two assists each on the night, while senior Julianna Avitto (Lindenhurst, N.Y./St. John the Baptist) tallied one assist late in the game.
 
In goal, sophomore Kayla Kelly (South Setauket, N.Y./Ward Melville) made her first career start in goal and played all 90 minutes as she did not face a shot and recorded the shutout victory.
 
The defensive unit of Wright, Kouril, senior Olivia Mihaljevich (Leona Valley, Calif./Quartz Hill) and freshman Nikki Spinola (Bronx, N.Y./St. Vincent Ferrer) held the Cardinals in check as York was unable to take a shot on the match. Senior Roseleen Frawley (Bronx, N.Y./Preston) and junior Cammie Havens (Point Pleasant, N.J./Point Pleasant Borough) also played on the back line and assisted in the defensive effort.
 
Maritime took the early lead in the sixth minute of play as Etienne scored the first goal on the night off a pass from the left wing by Fabiani. The York goalkeeper bobbled the shot and the ball trickled over the line to give Maritime the 1-0 lead.
 
In the 21st minute, Etienne took a lead pass from DellaSperanza and sent a long-range shot over the goalkeeper's head to increase the Privateer lead to two. Maritime tacked on one more goal in the half as Etienne was able to score on a scramble in the box off of Fabiani's initial corner kick.
 
After the break the Privateers tallied six more goals beginning with the first of the night for Wright, who took Della Speranza's corner kick and buried the shot into the goal to increase the Privateer lead to four. Gula scored an unassisted goal on a breakaway just after to make it a 5-0 advantage in favor of the Privateers.
 
Etienne scored the sixth goal of the night for Maritime off a pass from Gula in the 53rd minute. Three minutes later, Fabiani broke through on the scoresheet with her third goal of the year off a solid through-ball by Gula.
 
The Privateers scored twice more in the waning minutes as Wright recorded her second of the night on a curling shot that was placed into the upper left corner of the goal to move Maritime ahead by eight. Avitto dribbled the ball and crossed a pass towards the near post that was redirected by Gula to Kouril at the right wing, the sophomore scored her first of the year to cap off Maritime's offensive output and send the Privateer faithful home with a win.
 
Final stats saw Maritime outshoot the Cardinals by a 50-0 margin, with a 25-0 margin in shots on goal. Corner kicks were 14-0 in favor of the Privateers, while the York netminder needed to make 16 saves on the night.
 
Maritime (4-2-1, 1-0-0 Skyline) resumes Skyline Conference play on Saturday evening at 6 p.m., when the team plays host to the St. Joseph's (Bklyn) Bears on Reinhart Field.
 
York (0-8-0, 0-2-0 CUNYAC) will get back to league play on Saturday as well, when the team visits City College of New York for a 2 p.m. start at Williams Park in Jamaica, Queens.