Senior Amanda Coba continued her torrid play of late on her Senior Day with a goal in the first three minutes as the Pomona-Pitzer Women's Soccer team closed out the regular season with a 2-0 win over first-place Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on Saturday morning at a swampy Pomona-Pitzer Soccer Stadium from overnight rain. 

With the win, Pomona-Pitzer concludes the regular season at 10-5-4 and 8-2-4 in the SCIAC and will be the third seed in the SCIAC Tournament.  CMS falls to 13-6-1 and 10-4 in the conference with the loss. 

Freshman Natasha Thornton-Clark added a goal in the ninth minute for the Sagehens, which almost scored three times in the first 10 minutes, but had a goal from senior Nicole Quilliam waved off for offsides. 

Coba got the Sagehens on the board quickly off a corner kick from the right side. CMS was able to clear the ball away, but it came to Coba 15 yards from goal. She gathered it in and sent a bullet into the net at the 2:47 mark for her fifth goal in the last three games, including a hat trick on Wednesday against Whittier. 

(pictured - the Sagehens celebrate the goal from Coba, #28)

Thornton-Clark benefitted from a fortuitous deflection as she extended the lead to 2-0 at the 8:07 mark, just one minute after Quilliam's goal was disallowed. She took a pass along the right side of the box from freshman Sofia Barsher and tried to cross it to Barsher who was making a run up the middle. The ball took a deflection in front of the net and trickled past goalkeeper Molly Freed, who was caught wrong-footed on the play.

CMS put Pomona-Pitzer under some pressure in the second half, but the Sagehens were able to withstand it and preserve the 2-0 lead the rest of the way. Junior goalie Annie Wedel had three saves to get the shutout, 

Pomona-Pitzer will play the second seed in Wednesday's SCIAC Postseason Tournament semifinals, which will be either a rematch against CMS or a trip to Cal Lutheran, depending on the result of today's Cal Lutheran game.