FRIDAY'S SCORES
@UT MARTIN 0, EASTERN ILLINOIS 0 (2OT)
Eastern Kentucky 1, @Jacksonville State 0
@Tennessee Tech 1, Morehead State 1 (2OT)
@Southeast Missouri 2, Belmont 1
UT MARTIN 0, EASTERN ILLINOIS 0
MARTIN, Tenn. - Senior goalkeeper Sara Teteak turned away 16 UT Martin shots on Friday evening as Eastern Illinois opened the Ohio Valley Conference women’s soccer season with 0-0 tie.
EIU moved to 1-4-1 on the year, 0-0-1 in the OVC. UT Martin is now 2-3-4 on the season and 0-0-1 in the OVC. The Panthers will play on Sunday afternoon at Southeast Missouri.
Teteak faced 16 Skyhawks shots on goal, turning them all away as she posted her first shutout of the season. It was the 16th career shutout for Teteak as she moved into a tie for second on the EIU career shutouts list.
UT Martin goalkeeper Erica Meyers stopped all three shots by the Panthers. Nicoletta Anuci had two shots for EIU while Sarah DeWolf added the other.
Alice Adams, Hendrikje Baurmann and Blare Gerido all had three shots on goal for UTM as they finished with a 31-10 total shots advantage.
EASTERN KENTUCKY 1, JACKSONVILLE STATE 0
JACKSONVILLE, Ala. - Senior Monica Rios' goal in the 22nd minute propelled the Eastern Kentucky University soccer team to a 1-0 win over Jacksonville State in the Colonels' Ohio Valley Conference opener on Friday night at JSU Soccer Field.
EKU (3-6, 1-0 OVC) pressed from the opening whistle, outshooting Jacksonville State 15-6 on the night.
The Colonels broke through midway through the first half when sophomore Baylee Lanter lofted a corner kick into the box. A failed JSU clearance was intercepted by Rios, who tucked the ball into the lower left corner of the net to put Eastern on top.
From there, the EKU defense – a unit that came into the contest second in the OVC in goals-against-average (1.49) – took over.
Sophomore goalkeeper Zoe Aguirre recorded four saves as the Colonels earned their second clean sheet of the season.
Lanter and senior Marian Wolski led all players in the game with three shots. Lanter put two on target.
Jacksonville State sophomore Cephana Deane finished with a pair of shots, while seniors Nadia Plawiuk and Cheyenne Carden added a look at goal. Freshmen Briana Eads and Cynthia Bagozzi turned in shot attempts.
It is EKU's fifth consecutive win over Jacksonville State, dating back to the 2015 season.
TENNESSEE TECH 1, MOREHEAD STATE 1
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. - For the first time since 2014, the Morehead State Soccer team will begin Ohio Valley Conference play with a positive result as they earned a 1-1 tie against Tennessee Tech in double overtime on Friday evening at Tech Soccer Field.
After the Golden Eagles took a 1-0 lead on a goal by Nora Vicsek in the 80th minute, MSU freshman defender Katelynn Setters answered to tie the match with her first-career goal in the 85th minute.
Setters' goal was set up after she was fouled and awarded a free kick. The freshman from Liberty Township, Ohio, proceeded to execute the kick to perfection from 30 yards away and play it past the TTU goalkeeper to tie the match.
In overtime, Tennessee Tech fired six shots to the Eagles two but freshman goalkeeper Grace Gaffney stepped up and turned away four potential match-winning goals.
Gaffney, a 5-foot-6 freshman from Danville, Ky., recorded a career-best and the team's season-high with 12 saves in the match. Gaffney is now 0-3-1 in her first five starts for MSU.
In goal for Tech, Isabelle Austin recorded four saves against MSU's six shots on goal.
Offensively, the Golden Eagles outshot MSU 20-9. Vicsek led TTU with four shot attempts while Setters paced the Morehead State with three.
With the tie, Tennessee Tech moves to 2-4-3 overall and 0-0-1 in league play.
Morehead State snaps a four-game skid with the result and is now 1-6-1 overall and 0-0-1 in OVC play. The tie marks the first time the Eagles have earned points in their conference-opening match since coming away with a 2-2 tie against Belmont on Sept. 26, 2014.
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 2, BELMONT 1
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Southeast Missouri defeated visting Belmont, 2-1, in both teams OVC opener.
SEMO's Jennifer Brien scored at the five minute mark of the match to open the first half. Belmont's Rachel Vernon's second goal of the season tied the score 1-1 following the corner kick from Paige Hewitt. The Redhawks responded 10 minutes later, with a goal from Cassidi Tomsu giving SEMO a 2-1 lead.
Both teams went scoreless in the second half, with Redhawks outshooting the Bruins 16-7.