THURSDAY’S SCORES
Southern Indiana 1, @Western Illinois 0
Tennessee Tech 0, @SIUE 0
Little Rock 1, @Southeast Missouri 1
UT Martin 3, @Lindenwood 0
SOUTHERN INDIANA 1, WESTERN ILLINOIS 0
MACOMB, Ill. - Western played its first women's soccer home match in two weeks on Thursday, as they welcomed the Screaming Eagles of Southern Indiana as they faced off for the first time as OVC members.
Southern Indiana started out on the attacking end, as they spent a lot of time in this match in Western's half. The Screaming Eagles got three corners inside sixteen minutes, but the Leatherneck defense held strong and denied them of a goal. Western got its first chance of the match in the nineteenth minute, as Alanna Pennington fired in a shot that just missed wide.
USI would get on the board in the fortieth minute, as they drew a penalty off of a handball. Peyton Murphy converted the chance that proved to be the only goal of the match for either side.
Western fought hard in the second half to get back on track, but chances for the Leathernecks were few and far between as the Screaming Eagles defense played well in the second period. Western drew free kicks in the eighty-seventh and eighty-nineth minutes, and had good chances on both, but failed to score the equalizer.
The Leathernecks fall to 2-5-4 on the season, and were handed their first loss in OVC play, now standing with a 0-1-3 record. Southern Indiana now stands in fourth place in the conference with a 2-1-1 record.
TENNESSEE TECH 0, SIUE 0
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - Neither team found the back of the net Thursday as SIUE and Tennessee Tech battled to a 0-0 tie at Korte Stadium.
SIUE women's soccer is now 4-5-2 overall and 2-1-1 in the Ohio Valley Conference. Tennessee Tech had its winning OVC streak snapped at three game and now holds a 4-4-4 record overall and a 3-0-1 mark in the OVC.
The Cougars outshot the Golden Eagles 12-5. SIUE put six shots on goal against TTU goalkeeper Maggie Conrad. SIUE's Taylor Spiller recorded four saves for her second shutout of the season.
Sidney Christopher led the SIUE offense with three shots. Neve Renwick was tops for TTU with three shots.
LITTLE ROCK 1, SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 1
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Southeast Missouri soccer (6-3-3, 2-1-2 OVC) played to a 1-1 draw on Thursday night against Little Rock (3-4-7, 0-2-3 OVC) as SEMO remained unbeaten in three-straight matches.
Sophomore forward Cayla Koerner got the Redhawks on the board early in the first half. A misstep from Little Rock's defenders allowed Koerner to steal the ball deep in Trojans territory.
Koerner ended up one-on-one with LR goalkeeper Peyton Urban and muscled it past her for the game's first goal.
For Koerner, Thursday's goal was her fourth of the season and she is now tied for the OVC lead midway through the season.
SEMO outshot the Trojans by a final mark of 10-8, including two shots-on-goal. Senior midfielder Faith Liljegren led the team in shots with three total.
Zoe Houston and Koerner finished with two a piece, while freshman Justi Nelson and Emily Baker finished with a shot each.
Redshirt senior Megan Heisserer got on the shot chart with a shot in the first half. She played 15-minutes Thursday night.
Sophomore goalkeeper Sophia Elfrink tallied five saves in the contest and played all 90-minutes of the match. Elfrink recorded all five saves in the first half.
LR's Abbie Smith tied the match in the 80
th minute off a free-kick assist by Mykena Turner. From near midfield, Turner launched the ball into the box and found the head of Smith to beat Elfrink just inside the right post to level the match.
Six Redhawks played the full 90-minute shift, including Elfrink, as Emma Brune, Alayna Jakul, Maddie Paulson, Zoe Houston, and Natalie Jackson were on the field the entirety of Thursday's match.
UT MARTIN 3, LINDONWOOD 0
ST. CHARLES, Mo. - The University of Tennessee at Martin soccer team posted their first shutout of the season with a 3-0 Ohio Valley Conference victory over Lindenwood.
UT Martin had three different goal scorers with Abbie McHenry, Izzy Patterson and Peyton Cook each finding the back of the net in the first conference triumph for the Skyhawks under head coach Mike Varga.
Patterson led the charge for UT Martin with a season-high five shots while Cook blistered three shots on frame. In shots it was McHenry (two), Rachel Okoro (two), Jenny Enriquez (one), Makayla Robinson (one), Catey Hunt (one) and Brooke Kala (one) that kept the Lions' defense on their toes.
The defense from the Skyhawks formed an orange and blue wall in front of the net. Goalkeeper Poppy Bastock secured her first shutout of the season by snaring two saves while facing eight shots. Shayla Addington, Allie Buchmann, Gwen Walters, Hunt and Bastock played the full 90 minutes.
The Skyhawks got on the board in the 26th minute with McHenry scoring her first goal of the season to give UT Martin the 1-0 lead. Just seven minutes later, Patterson found the top left corner to make it 2-0 before halftime. In the second half, Cook would score the final goal of the contest in the 80th minute to finish off the Lions, 3-0.