The Raiders travel down to Boston on a beautiful fall afternoon to play the women soccer team of Emerson College on their home coming day weekend in yet another GNAC conference tilt.

The Raiders started off the game a little slow and Emerson was able to carry the play. However as the 1^st half went on, the Raiders slowly gained the mid field and began to carry the play. Before long it was the Raiders who were really bringing the match to Emerson.

The game remained tied until the 41^st minute of the first half, when Emerson's Rachel Lerma was able to receive a cross from Lindsay D'Andrea out of the left flank and place the ball in the right corner of the net for a 1-0 lead. The 1^st half would end 1-0 in favor of Emerson, but Rivier College would strike first in the second half in the 54^th minute when freshmen Amy DeSimone (Methuen, Ma.) would score unassisted following in on a rebound off her own shot.

The score was tied 1-1 and we had a game brewing. Emerson would come right back and 2 minutes later had regained the lead 2-1 on a Katie Franzeo goal. It went all downhill from there for the Raiders, as Emerson would score three more times and Rivier College could find no answers to counter Emerson College. The game would end 5-1 and the Raiders would fall to 1-3 in the conference and 2-4 overall.

Rivier will not have to wait long to try and break their losing streak. They play at home in a non conference match against Daniel Webster College at 7:30pm , on Monday 9/28/09. It is the always heated cross town rivalry game for bragging rights to DIII women college soccer supremacy in Nashua, NH.