Heavy Rains and winds put the start of the game in question, but the heavy stuff held off until the final minutes of play as the two ranked teams battled on the turf in Glassboro.

"We came out really well to start the game," Eastern Head Coach Camrin Azzarano said after the play, "we moved the ball and really got to into the circle." The energy spent to get inot the circle paid dividends as the Eagles scored on a penalty corner in the fifth minute. 

Brittany Moyer received the insert and knocked it to Yvonne Herbster. Herbster made a quick move and fired a low shot that Jess Jaindl redirected past the Rowan goalie for a 1-0 lead. Four minutes later, the 9th ranked Eagles doubled their lead on a Kelby Bolton penalty stroke. Eastern earned the penalty stroke after Sarah Garber's shot caromed off the pipe and the ball was covered illegally on the goal line.

The #13 Profs, however, began to turn the tide with defensive pressure before half. Though the Eagles went to the break with a 2-0 lead, Rowan had most of the action over the waning minutes of the opening period. 

That pressure eventually resulted in a goal for the hosts early in the second half. Rachel Dix's goal, however, did not swing the momentum of the game. Fifty seconds after the Rowan goal, Moyer became the third Christopher Dock graduate to tally for the Eagles on the evening. The sophomore midfielder buried a hard shot after a great individual effort and a nice fake just inside the circle.

The 3-1 lead would prove to be enough, but the evening's result was far from a sure thing as Nicole Valianti began to take over the game for the hosts. She cut the lead in half in the 63rd minute, but Laura Ressler and the rest of the Eastern defense were able to hold off the charge. As the weather began to break for the worse in the final seconds of the game, Ressler turned away a pair of Valianti shots to preserve the win.

"The heavens opened up in the final two minutes," Azzarano said, "had there been more than two minutes left, I'm not sure how we would have finished. We could barely see the ball from the sideline." 

The win is the eighth straight for the Eagles (9-1, 1-0 Freedom) who now have three wins over ranked teams in 2010. Eastern returns to Freedom Conference action on Saturday at Manhattanville College.