Box Score ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. - Even the members of the Bard College women's soccer team will tell you: The satisfaction a moral victory brings wears off pretty fast these days.

The Raptors played 25th-ranked Rochester Institute of Technology tough on Friday - they hit the crossbar, hit the post and had a penalty kicked stopped against a team that has yielded two goals all season - but lost, 2-0. Bard still hasn't won a Liberty League game since joining the conference in 2011.

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The Raptors carried play in the first few minutes. By the end of the half, however, RIT was wearing Bard down and getting more and more chances to score. It paid off in the 42nd minute.

On the third of three consecutive corner kicks 27 seconds apart, Elena Wolfe (Parisppany, NJ) played a pass back rather than hitting a cross, and Gwen Neuhaus (Woodbridge, VA) lofted a pass directly into the box. With Bard players and coaches screaming for an offside call, freshman Anka Parzych (Niskayuna, NY) chipped a shot on the full volley past Bard keeper Kelsey O'Brien for a 1-0 lead.

At the half, RIT had an 8-1 edge in shots. But the second was much different.

Bard pressed forward with everything it had in the final 45 minutes, outshooting RIT, 10-3. In the 57th minute, Brianna Bean took a throw in from Isabel Keddy-Hector and made a quick turn into the box. Her shot got over the hands of RIT keeper Amanda Murray (Denville, NJ) but hit the crossbar.

Three minutes later on an almost identical play, Sylvia Kool came away with a throw in from Keddy-Hector and struck a quick shot from inside the box that hit the near post.

On RIT's next possession, Sierra Kiss (Sauquoit, NY) pounced a loose ball in the Bard box and made it 2-0 in the 65th minute. It was the Tigers first shot on goal of the second half.

Less than a minute later, Maddy Huggins was fouled in the box, but Keddy-Hector's penalty kick was caught by Murray, who finished with five saves.

O'Brien had five saves for Bard in the first half; Lily Harris made one save in the second half.

It doesn't get any easier on Saturday, as Bard hosts 5th-ranked William Smith College at 2 p.m. You can follow that contest via Live Stats right here.