Box Score

BRONX, N.Y. – Graduate student forward Justyce Hollenbach recorded a brace in her second straight game, bringing her league-leading total to 12 goals as the La Salle women's soccer team battled to a 2-2 draw at Fordham in Atlantic 10 action on Sunday afternoon.

With the result, the Explorers moved to 7-4-4 overall and 4-1-2 in Atlantic 10 play to stay in third place in the league standings, while Fordham went to 5-7-2 overall and 2-4-1 in the conference. 

Hollenbach, the reigning A10 Co-Offensive Player of the Week, has scored in four straight games for the Explorers, including four goals in her last two appearances. 

Hollenbach also surpassed 25 career goals and 60 career points in the contest, bringing her total to 26 career goals and 61 points. She is now eighth all-time on the program's career goals list and is tied with Dana Gavaghan (1997-00) and Maci Bower (2015-19) for ninth place on the program's career points list.

An action-packed opening 40 minutes accounted for all four goals. The Rams struck first in the fourth minute when Riley Carroll found the back of the net, but Hollenbach quickly answered for the Explorers in the ninth minute. Junior defender Ava Tenaglia found Hollenbach, who drilled a right-footed shot into the bottom left corner to tie the game.. For Tenaglia, it was her first career assist.

Fordham's goalkeeper Addison Green denied the Explorers' scoring chances in the 20th and 21st minutes to keep the game level.

Hollenbach gave La Salle the lead in the 34th minute with her 26th career goal, getting past Green on a breakaway. Junior midfielder Ella Cadigan recorded her league-leading 10th assist of the season, and is now three assists away from tying the program's single season record held by Maryam Huseini (2013).

Fordham found an equalizing goal in the 40th minute when Julia Acosta scored off Ava Giudice's second assist of the game.

La Salle goalkeeper Samantha Widnick finished with two saves. Each goalkeeper made two stops in the second half, with Widnick making a clutch save in the 89th minute to preserve the draw.

La Salle returns to Philadelphia to host the top team in the Atlantic 10, Saint Louis (9-2-4, 5-0-2 A10), on Thursday, Oct. 22. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. at McCarthy Stadium.