Box score

BALTIMORE, Md. - Stevenson field hockey freshman Shelby Ballew (Annapolis/Broadneck) scored two goals in her first collegiate game to lead four different goal scorers as the Mustangs opened their 2010 season with a 5-0 victory over the College of Notre Dame (Md.) Thursday at Alumnae Field.

The victory was the first for Stevenson (1-0) in a season opener since a 9-0 win over Hood on Aug. 30, 2003 in the Black-Eyed Susan Tournament.

The Mustangs dominated the game, holding a 47-0 edge in shots and a 13-0 margin in penalty corners, but led just 1-0 at halftime after the team's leading scorer from a year ago, senior Katelyn Manocheh (Timonium/Maryvale Prep), scored unassisted with 21:51 remaining in the first half.

Manocheh starting the scoring in the second half with an assist to sophomore Rachel Hill (Parkton/Hereford) on her first career goal with just under 20 minutes left before Ballew scored the first of back-to-back goals just 3:33 later on a loose ball in front.

Ballew's second goal with 8:25 to play was exactly the same as her first as she corralled the rebound off a shot by Manocheh and slipped it past Gator keeper Emily Langton.

Junior Brittany Martin (Hampstead/Hereford) added her first goal of the season with just 49 seconds remaining to cap a four-goal second half for the Mustangs who won their second-straight regular season road game.

Already the school's career leader in saves and victories, senior Kara Zimmerman (Odenton/Arundel) picked up her 22nd career win in goal before being relieved by her sister, sophomore Kelsi Zimmerman (Odenton/Arundel), who made her first appearance after spending the 2009 season at Division II Limestone.

Stevenson hosts the eighth annual Black-Eyed Susan Tournament this Saturday and Sunday at Caves Athletics Complex and will face Delaware Valley in the tournament's first game Saturday morning at 10 a.m.