SUNDAY'S SCORES
Murray State 2, @FIU 1
@Belmont 3, Detroit Mercy 2
@Eastern Michigan 2,
Morehead State 1
@Iowa State 1,
SIUE 0
@UT Martin 4, Wright State 1
@Cincinnati 5,
Eastern Illinois 0
@Indiana 6,
Southeast Missouri 0
MURRAY STATE 2, FIU 1
MIAMI, Fla. - Murray State Women’s Soccer won their match with Florida International 2-1 on Sunday afternoon at FIU Soccer Stadium in Miami, Florida. The Racers leave the Florida going 2-0 with their victory today and their win on Friday (Sept. 3) over Florida Atlantic. Today’s victory pushes Murray State’s record to 4-1 on the season.
Sophomore Midfielder, Hailey Cole led the Racers with two assists on the day. The first coming on sophomore defender Audrey Henry’s first goal of the season in the eighth minute of the match. Symone Cooper would tally the game-winning goal with a header in the 59th minute on a corner kick from Cole.
Goalkeeper Jenna Villacres continued her impressive weekend with 10 saves on 11 Florida International shots on goal. This performance follows her shutout in Friday’s match.
Murray State’s next match will come on Thursday (Sept. 9) at 7 pm against Big 10 opponent Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
BELMONT 3, DETROIT MERCY 2
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Belmont University women's soccer got a 90th minute goal from Kayla Monis to defeat Detroit Mercy, 3-2, Sunday afternoon from E.S. Rose Park.
This follows golden goal overtime victories over Chattanooga and Houston Baptist earlier in the season.
Belmont claims victory for the second time this weekend in an exciting match against The University of Detroit Mercy.
The Bruins came out hot to start the match with Erin Patterson scoring the first goal in the 10th minute. The defense worked the ball up to Avery Nowak who had a clear break near the midfield. Nowak passed the ball up the line to Patterson in a 1v1 situation. Patterson got ahead of the defender at the top of the box shooting a floater into the top left corner past the Titians goalie landing in the lower left of the net.
The Titians tied the game 1-1 in the 24th minute when Goalie Sarah Doyle came out of the box drawing a penalty kick for the Titians. Tia Jokic took the penalty kick sending it past Doyle in the upper 90.
The Titians went up 2-1 in the first half in the 34th minute with a shot on the edge of the eighteen by Erica Leinweber.
The Bruins came ready to win in the second half recording 10 of their 12 total shots.
With multiple opportunities in the second half the Bruins tied the game in the 63rd minute off of a corner kick. Loren House secured the tying 2-2 goal in the upper right ninety for the Bruins assisted by Morgan Pettit. This was House's first career goal as well as Pettit's first assist of the season.
The Titians goalie Marissa Silver received a red card in the 63rd minute requiring the Titians to play a man down for the rest of the match.
The Bruins did not let up and continued to hold possession and created scoring opportunities.
Between the 63rd minute and the 90th the Bruins had five shots on the Titans, a truly stellar offensive performance by the Bruins.
With only a minute left in regulation the Bruins held possession near the box. Carly Ross ripped a shot hitting the cross bar in the 89th minute. The Bruins were able to regain possession sending the ball to Natalie Haverland crossing it into the box. Goalie Jazmine Scott came out for the save, missing the ball, leaving Kayla Monis wide open in the box to score and secure the win for the Bruins. Monis recorded her first career goal as a game winner.
Such an exciting way to end the weekend competition. The Bruins have proved their resilience to win in these competitive matchups.
Head Coach Heather Henson shows her excitement to see her team celebrate Monis and their team win, a true testament of the program.
The Bruins are on a two-game win streak hoping to continue this streak in their next matchup against Western Kentucky University.
The Bruins take on WKU Thursday, September 9 at 6:30 p.m. at E.S. Rose Park.
EASTERN MICHIGAN 2, MOREHEAD STATE 1
YPSILANTI, Mich. - A late goal from Katie Kiolbassa wasn't enough for Morehead State to overtake Eastern Michigan, as the Eagle soccer team fell in a hard-luck match, 2-1, on Sunday afternoon.
For the second straight game, the Eagles were peppered with shots from their opponent, with Eastern Michigan putting eight shots on goal, but junior goaltender Michelle Jerantowski was again up to the task for most of the afternoon, tallying a season high six saves.
Morehead State had the first scoring chance of the match, when Eastern Michigan's Chelsea Abbotts stopped a Katelynn Setters shot, but the scoring opened with some controversy, as EMU was awarded and cashed in on a penalty kick in the 16th minute.
Bad luck continued to follow the Eagles for much of the afternoon, as a shot from Chelsea Elmore was stopped in the 26th minute, and a free kick in the 63rd minute resulted in another chance from Elmore that went wide.
Eastern Michigan widened its lead in the 81st minute with a goal from Jamie Lefebvre, but Morehead State countered quickly, finally breaking through when the senior Kiolbassa put her second goal of the season into the lower right corner in the 88th minute to cut the lead 2-1.
The Eagles return to MSU Wellness and Recreation Field on Friday at 5 p.m. ET to kick off Family Weekend against VMI.
IOWA STATE 1, SIUE 0
AMES, Iowa - After a stellar defensive effort through much of the contest, SIUE women's soccer surrendered a goal in the 76th minute that proved to be the decisive strike and sent the Cougars home with a 1-0 defeat at Iowa State.
The bend-don't-break mentality of the Cougar defense proved to once again keep SIUE in the match, as 21 of Iowa State's 22 shots failed to find the back of the net. Leading the Cougar defensive effort was Bella Henderson, who recorded a season-high seven saves in the contest. Jensen Schoch, who started in goal for the opening 45 minutes, added a pair of saves to SIUE's total. The SIUE offense could not find their footing, only recording two total shots. Maria Haro registered the Cougars' lone shot on goal of the match, forcing the Cyclone keeper to make an impressive save in the opening minute of play.
The Cougars, who drop to 1-3 on the young season, will welcome SIU Carbondale (0-3-1) to Korte Stadium for a Thursday night fixture. The match will be streamed live on ESPN+.
UT MARTIN 4, WRIGHT STATE 1
MARTIN, Tenn. - Continuing their unblemished reputation when competing on their home turf through the non-conference portion of the 2021 campaign, the University of Tennessee at Martin soccer team made quick work of the Wright State Raiders on Sunday afternoon, walloping their second straight opponent by the score of 4-1 in the Skyhawks' third consecutive win as a whole.
Outscoring both North Alabama – UTM's punching bag on Thursday – and WSU by a combined margin of 8-2 over the past 72 hours, the three-headed monster of Emely van der Vliet, Jill Hildreth, and Bella Roberts proved too much to handle for the visitors, who were gashed in nearly every statistical category including a 16-5 hole in total shots taken.
By the time both teams ventured into their respective locker rooms, the Skyhawks had already gathered a four-score cushion, the highest number of goals scored by head coach Phil McNamara's unit in the past three years. UT Martin last saw a 45-minute stretch of four goals during a 10-0 sprint against Jackson State in 2018. It took the home squad all of 68 seconds to put in the first dagger on Sunday, and it was a snowball effect from that point.
All but one of the Skyhawks' swift scores came with an assist, where the first two (both coincidentally polished off by van der Vliet) resembled a textbook offensive attack. First-year forward Makayla Robinson provided the reigning Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year the perfect avenue for the Dutch to submit her first goal of the fall before the Wright State defense could even grasp what had happened, granting UTM their quickest strike of the season that will likely not be topped through the remaining 10 regular season dates.
Only ten minutes later, van der Vliet was able to make it 2-for-2 individually with another flawless feed from junior Catey Hunt, catching the Raiders out of position near midfield and hustling to the back of the net in the blink of an eye.
It would take one/fourth of a half for a UT Martin performer to notch two goals in the same match for the third bout in a row, as van der Vliet increased her personal total to nine scores in 17 appearances dating back to the spring, where the Netherlands native led the entire Ohio Valley Conference in that category.
Hildreth and Roberts, the other two Skyhawks who had already accomplished a pair of goals in a single outing each themselves, joined the barrage in the 24th and 44th minutes as the route continued over the Raiders. Perhaps the most impressive solo strike of 2021 thus far, Hildreth launched the ball over numerous defenders and WSU keeper Jessika Seward from far outside the box to hand UTM an insurmountable 3-0 advantage.
Not satisfied with the already-overbearing lead, the Skyhawks flexed their muscles even more with 60 seconds left in the period. Former All-OVC member Maria Castaldo and true freshman Emma Elliott synced up for a double assist to Roberts in the waning moments of the half to position the Murfreesboro, Tenn. native with a point blank aim at the net that gently fell through.
Keeping up the intensity over the second stanza to end the day with the aforementioned 11-shot difference, UTM wasn't able to find another lane to score again, although it wouldn't matter in the long run despite the Raiders finally cracking a goal of their own just 58 seconds into the action resuming, courtesy of Kaylin Helinski off a corner kick dish by Michelle Rings.
Only realizing three more shot attempts after cutting the large lead to that same number, Wright State would fail in their pursuit of becoming the first team to manage more than one score against the Skyhawks, as the orange and blue have now surrendered just four goals in 560 minutes, good enough for the second-lowest mark in the league.
Graduate GK Erica Myers collected her 34th win on Sunday while at the same time not needing to produce a single save over her 45 minutes of play. Freshman Annie McGraw finished out the rest of the match for the second time in as many games, grabbing her first collegiate save in the 73rd minute.
Fresh off an eight-goal showing in two dominant W's, the Skyhawks will enact on a well-deserved seven-day break before their next meeting on Sunday, September 12th versus the Western Carolina Catamounts. In what will be the third straight home match and the second-to-last non-conference tune-up, UTM will hope to avenge a 5-4 setback to WCU in the Tar Heel State the last time the two schools locked horns in 2019.
Western Carolina featured in a scoreless tie with Longwood while UT Martin was busy lighting up the scoreboard on Sunday, preparing to host Liberty on September 9th before traveling to Skyhawk Field three days later with a current record of 3-2-1
CINCINNATI 5, EASTERN ILLINOIS 0
CINCINNATI, Ohio - Recap coming soon.
INDIANA 6, SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 0
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Southeast Missouri women's soccer (2-4) fell to the Big Ten's Indiana (4-1-1), 6-0, Sunday evening at the Bill Armstrong Stadium. Goalkeeper Abby Rollet compiled a career best 12 saves in the game.
Indiana took a 6-0 lead with six Hoosiers scoring in the opening period.
Indiana took a 1-0 lead in the ninth minute on a goal from Jen Blitchok.
Jordyn Levy increased the advantage to 2-0 with a tally in the 12th minute.
Avery Lockwood (18'), Anna Bennett (22'), Sofia Black (36') and Bria Telemaque (42') also scored for the Hoosiers in the first half Sunday.
Indiana outshot the Redhawks, 15-0, with 11 shots on goal in the first half.
Rollet, a Perryville, Missouri, native, made five saves in the opening 45 minutes and finished with a career high 12. She made her second-straight start in net for the Redhawks.
Indiana's Jamie Gerstenberg started in net for the Hoosiers, competing in the first half for the win.
Caitlin Arbuckle relieved her in the second half and Coast Liapis finished the game, playing in the final 13 minutes.
Indiana scored a Redhawks single-game record six goals Sunday. The Hoosiers outshot SEMO, 24-0, including 18 shots on target.
Blitchok and Melanie Forbes paced the Hoosiers with five shots (three shots on goal) each.
Indiana also had eight corner opportunities compared to the Redhawks one.
Natalie Jackson made her first start of the season after appearing in her 2021 debut this past Thursday (Sept. 2) at Evansville. Jackson, a junior from O'Fallon, Missouri, competed in 60 minutes on the pitch.
Emma Tucker also made her first career start. Maddie Paulson made her 2021 season debut, coming on as a substitution.
Emma Brune, the reigning OVC Defender of the Week, extended her streak of playing in every minute of regulation to 18-straight games dating back to this past spring's 2020-21 season.
Brune, Lauren Welker, Lexi Grote and Emma Tucker competed in all of the opening 45 minutes of play.
The Redhawks next head to Iowa City, Iowa, to take on fellow Big Ten institution Iowa Sept. 12. First kick is slated for 1 p.m. The Redhawks will return to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Sept. 19 to face Missouri State. First kick is slated for 1 p.m. at Houck Field.