CAZENOVIA, NY - The Villa Maria College women's soccer team got it's 2018 season underway, but were upended 9-0 by the Cazenovia College Wildcats on Saturday afternoon.

"We got off to a tough start and we weren't able to really recover," Villa head coach Amanda Janosky said.  "We have a lot of new faces and we are still working on coming together as a team. Our team has put a lot of effort into the preseason and we can only learn from our experiences.  We will continue to come together and work hard.  I'm confident we have the right student-athletes here to do that."

This Vikings' team features eight new players.  Cazenovia was able to get off to a quick start, scoring four times in the opening four minutes. Villa did settle in after that, seeming to get the early-season jitters out of the way.  Junior Ashlynn Banks and sophomore Meghan Strain had effective games for the Vikings.

Villa will be back in action with back-to-back home games next week as they host SUNY Cobleskill and SUNY Delhi at noon on Saturday and Sunday.

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