Delaware gets set for the start of its season opener in women’s soccer against Syracuse before the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023. The win was the first for the Hens against a Power Five team and marked a successful debut for head coach Kelly Lawrence.
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Delaware’s Laura Fluegee (4) and Syracuse’s Ashley Rauch come together for the ball near midfield in the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Julianna Bell throws-in during the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Lea Panagiotidis (19) leaps for a header against Syracuse’s Kate Murphy in the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Caitlin St. Leger (right), from Caravel Academy, pushes the ball ahead of Alyssa Abramson in the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Raychel Speicher (right) reacts after scoring the lone goal in the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Kristin Wolf (left) joins Raychel Speicher after Speicher scored the lone goal in the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware players rush to celebrate with Raychel Speicher (second from right) after she scored the lone goal in the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware players rush to celebrate with Raychel Speicher (center) after she scored the lone goal on a pass from Lea Panagiotidis (19) in the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Kristin Wolf (left) moves for the ball against Syracuse’s Kate Murphy in the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Raychel Speicher (9) drives the ball toward the Syracuse net in the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware goalkeeper Mia Reed leaps for a save in the first half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Leilah Sallee advances the ball in the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Sydni Wright, a Padua Academy graduate, enters play in the first half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Leila Sallee (left) blasts the ball past Syracuse’s Alyssa Abramson in the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Anna Sisson (left) tries to move past Syracuse’s Kylen Grant in the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s (from left) Kristin Wolf, Lea Panagiotidis and Julianna Bell head for the locker room at halftime up 1-0 in the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware head coach Kelly Lawrence (left) and assistant coach Maddy Evans head off the field at halftime with a 1-0 lead in the Hens’ win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener and Lawrence’s debut.
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Delaware’s Lea Panagiotidiis (19) stays off her own keeper in Kyla Burns (right) in the second half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Constanze Viehmann (33) works in front of goalie Kyla Burns in the second half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Carly Binn (2) works against Syracuse’s Hannah Pilley in the second half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Kristin Wolf has some net to work with but angles a header just wide in front of Syracuse keeper Shea Vanderbosch in the second half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Kristin Wolf reacts after just missing a chance on net off her head in the second half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Syndi Wright (from Padua Academy, right) presses Syracuse goalkeeper Shea Vanderbosch in the second half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Syracuse’s Kylen Grant (left) tries to get the ball past Delaware’s Caitlin St. Leger (left, formerly of Caravel Academy) in the second half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Syracuse’s Kylen Grant (center) protests after Delaware was awarded a free kick after she tangled with Caitlin St. Leger, who remained on the turf momentarily in the second half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Dlaware goalkeeper Kyla Burns pulls in the ball in the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Willa Pratt (left) advances the ball late in the second half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Morgan Tilley pushes the ball toward the Syracuse net in the second half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Katie Hackley (14) controls the ball near midfield in the second half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Lea Panagiotidis (right) leaps for a header with Syracuse’s Ashley Rauch in the second half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Syracuse’s Emma Klein (left) falls with contact against Delaware’s Morgan Tilley in the second half of the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware celebrates after the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s Katie Hackley (14) shakes hands with Syracuse’s Kate Murphy following the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware players take a job across the field following the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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Delaware’s (from left) Maddie Schepers (a St. Mark’s High School product), Kyla Burns and Grace Harvey jog across the field following the Blue Hens’ 1-0 win against Syracuse at Grant Stadium, Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Delaware’s opener.
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