Ohio Valley Conference

RICHMOND, Ky. - Eastern Illinois faced former Ohio Valley Conference rival Eastern Kentucky on Sunday afternoon coming away with a 2-2 draw in Richmond.
 
The Panthers are now 2-2-2 on the season while EKU is 1-3-1.
 
EIU jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the match with both goals coming early in the first half in a span of 41 seconds.
 
Kate Germano scored at the 8:11 mark of the first half on an assist from Ella Onstott.
 
Carys Grieve followed 41 seconds later finding the back of the net unassisted at the 8:52 mark.
 
Ana Manning cut the margin in half for EKU in the 23rd minute as Eastern Illinois led 2-1 at that half.
 
The Colonels made several late charges in the match finally breaking through for the equalizer in the last 90 seconds of regulation as Ella Grode scored.
 
Onstott and Kayla Green added shots on goal for EIU as they had nine total shots and four on net.
 
Ashlyn Hoover finished with four saves for EIU.

PURDUE FORT WAYNE 1, SIUE 0
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The SIUE women's soccer team suffered its first loss of the regular season Sunday with a 1-0 loss at Purdue Fort Wayne.

The Mastodons improved to a 3-2-1 for the season, scoring the game winner in the 88th minute. Gigi Ricciardi scored on her only shot of the game at 87:07 from Morgan Gallagher.

The SIUE offense collected 13 shots in the contest with three from Sidney Christopher and two each from Kaitlyn Nichols and Ava Talley.

Abby Haskell and Samaya Hogg shared duties in goal for the Cougars. Haskell, who played the first half, recorded her fourth straight contest without yielding a goal. She now has 14 saves for the season after grabbing three more at Purdue Fort Wayne.

LINDENWOOD 3, AUSTIN PEAY 2
ST. CHARLES, Mo. - On Sunday, women's soccer hosted Austin Peay in a highly contested matchup. Lindenwood would come from behind to earn the 3-2 victory, playing down a player for 33 minutes. After the match, Lindenwood improved to 3-3 on the season. The Lions would have three different goal scorers in the match.

In the first half, lockdown defense would be the staple of the frame. Both teams in the half would be held off the scoresheet. In the frame, Lindenwood would outshoot Austin Peay 8-3. Austin Peay had the advantage in corner kicks, with eight, while Lindenwood had five. Caroline Ritter would make one save in the first 45 minutes.
 
In the second half, Austin Peay would break the scoreless tie in the 50th minute of the match, scoring a header off a corner kick. Austin Peay would find the back of the net for the second time of the match in the 64th minute. Austin Peay's second goal would come from a header off a free kick. With less than, 26 minutes left to go in the match, Lindenwood would trail 2-0. In the 68th minute, Lindenwood would be fouled in the box, leading to a penalty shot. Rachel Jackson would take the penalty shot for the Lions. Jackson's penalty shot would be saved, but was able to collect the rebound, putting her next shot in the back of the net. With less than 22 minutes left to go in the match, Lindenwood would trail 2-1. In the 74th minute, Lindenwood would once again be fouled in the box, leading to a penalty shot. Georgia Pardalos would take the penalty shot, scoring the ball in the bottom-left corner. At this point, the Lions would be tied 2-2 with the Governors. With less than two minutes to go, the Lions would be fouled outside the box, leading to a free kick. Tasneem Dizdarevic would be the free kick taker for the Lions, taking a shot from long-range, notching the Lions third goal of the game and first lead of the match. In the final minute of the match, Austin Peay had one final opportunity to tie the match up at three with an indirect kick inside the box. Austin Peay's shot from inside the box went high leading to a Lions goal kick, and a Lions victory. 
 
Ritter got the nod in net, making three stops.

WRIGHT STATE 2, SOUTHERN INDIANA 1
EVANSVILLE, Ind. - University of Southern Indiana Women's Soccer cut a two-goal deficit in half late in Sunday's match against Wright State University, but the Screaming Eagles ran out of time and fell 2-1 to the Raiders at Strassweg Field.
 
Southern Indiana moved to 0-4-1 on the season with Sunday's final score while Wright State tallied its first victory of 2024 to improve to 1-3-0.
 
Both teams took some time to settle into the match, as neither side recorded a shot until after the 10-minute mark of the first half. Then Wright State broke through in the 19th minute to take a 1-0 advantage.
 
USI responded with three shot attempts over the next handful of minutes. Senior midfielder Maggie Duggan (Defiance, Missouri) had USI's best look at goal at 23:22 with one of her team-high three shots saved.
 
The visiting Raiders grabbed back control of possession and scored a second time at 27:26 of the opening half to take a 2-0 lead. The 2-0 scoreline held until halftime as Southern Indiana stopped a few more attempts late in the first.
 
The physicality intensified in the second half. Wright State was awarded a penalty kick in the 58th minute but missed it high and wide, keeping the score 2-0.
 
After making substitutions to get fresh legs in the match and ramping up the urgency, Southern Indiana created several chances in the middle of the second stanza from inside the 18-yard box. A shot each from junior forward Payton Seymour (Louisville, Kentucky) and sophomore midfielder Pilar Torres (Chula Vista, California) were kept out of the goal by Wright State.
 
The Screaming Eagles' high-paced efforts led to a goal at the 76:24 mark to cut into Wright State's lead. Redshirt freshman Eva Boer (St. Charles, Illinois) received a crisp pass from Torres, spun off her defender, and struck the ball past a diving goalkeeper. The goal was Boer's second of the season.
 
The one goal was all USI could muster in the late frenzy before the match reached full time.
 
USI redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Anna Markland (Hoover, Alabama) finished the game with four saves on 10 shots faced and six on goal by the Raiders. Southern Indiana notched eight shot attempts with three on target.

INDIANA STATE 3, SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 0
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Southeast Missouri women's soccer (0-3) fell in the final home non-conference match of the 2024 campaign to Indiana State (4-1) by a final score of 3-0 at Houck Stadium Sunday afternoon. 
 
The Sycamores outshot SEMO by a 16-9 advantage led by Mackenzie Kent who finished with a pair of goals on two shots. The Redhawks were led by four players with two shots apiece as forward Cayla Koerner, Zoe Houston, Emily Baker, and Justi Nelson all got in the shot column. 
 
Sophomore goalkeeper Madison Geisler made the start in net for the Redhawks. The Manchester, Mo.-native played the full 90-minutes making five saves. 
 
The Redhawks had the first great chance of the afternoon, registering the first shot-on-goal off the foot of Emily Baker. Baker drove the shot from outside of the ISU box with a shot that tested Maddie Alexander. 
 
Alexander finished with five saves in the Sycamores net. 
 
ISU got on the board late in the first half with a goal from Autumn Fairfax off one-of-10 corner kicks from the Sycamores on Sunday afternoon. Brooklyn Woods served the ball into the box and found the head of Fairfax for the first goal. 
 
The first of Kent's two goals came 11 minutes later as the Sycamores got on the breakaway and a nice ball played by Alexa Mackey found Kent's foot for the second goal of the match. The ball found the back of the net with her right foot to make it 2-0 at halftime. 
 
ISU outshot SEMO 9-4 after the first 45-minutes and had a 3-0 advantage in corner kicks. 
 
The Sycamores would put the game to bed in the 52nd minute with Kent's second goal of the contest, this one with her right foot again to make it 3-0. 
 
Thee Redhawks played the full 90-minutes of Sunday's match in Geisler and defenders Alayna Jakul and Kristin Anderson.

ULM 1, LITTLE ROCK 0
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Little Rock Trojans drop the first game at Coleman Sports Complex of 2024 as the ULM Warhawks find a late goal.

The first 84 minutes was as back and forth as any game imaginable. The Warhawks and the Trojans remained deadlocked until the 85th minute which saw ULM send a shot across the goal box and into the opposite corner to take the late lead. A final push from the Trojans' offense could not salvage a result as ULM would claim the victory.

MURRAY STATE 6, UT MARTIN 1
MURRAY, Ky. - The University of Tennessee at Martin soccer team fell to Missouri Valley Conference foe Murray State this afternoon, 6-1.
 
The Skyhawks received a goal from Brooke Kala, who scored her first points of the season off an assist from Makayla Robinson. That was one of Kala's three shots during the match while Peyton Cook (three shots, two on goal), Robinson (one shot), Izzy Patterson (one shot), Unni Wolf (one shot) and Caroline Moore (one shot on goal) fired off attempts during the contest.
 
Mac Titus (six saves) and Jordyn Riffle (four saves) split time in the net while Parker Gelinas, Shayla Addington and Kala played the entire match for UT Martin. Maren Cain, Daksha Sutharshan and Riffle also made their season debuts in today's match.
 
Murray State (3-2-1) got on the scoreboard first as Sydney Etter scored in the sixth minute. That was quickly followed up by Kala, who received an excellent dish from Robinson to equal the contest at 1-all only 64 seconds later.
 
Titus made three saves in a 16-minute span to keep the score at 1-all but the Racer offense would add first-half goals in the 27th, 40th and 41st minutes before striking again in the 69th and 90th minute.

TENNESSEE TECH 4, COLUMBIA 4
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. - A topsy-turvy second half that featured eight combined goals, four lead changes and four ties paved the way to a 4-4 draw in a seesaw sort of affair between the Tennessee Tech soccer team and Columbia Sunday evening.

Scoreless at intermission, the rollercoaster ride of the second stanza began to take shape in the 51st minute with a Nata Ramirez goal for the first of the eight scores after the break. The Lion lead would prove to be short lived after Tech (0-4-2) provided the first of its two equalizers in the period with a Katie Toney penalty-kick goal in the 54th minute for the junior forward's first of the year and 10th of her collegiate career.

Knotted at 1-1, Ramirez took flight for the second time in a 13-minute span with another goal in the 64th minute to give Columbia a 2-1 edge, but once again a quick response would be in the cards for the purple and gold. A Skyler Williams through ball was placed perfectly onto the shoe tops of a sprinting Neve Renwick, who found the back of the net in the 70th minute to start the match fresh at 2-2. Williams registered her second assist of the season, while the fun was only beginning for Renwick.

Fast forward 10 minutes later with the scene still situated at 2-2, the Sheffield, England native made her way to the top right of the box, twisted to her left around a Columbia defender before creating an angle and smoking a low liner tucked inside the left post for her second goal of the night to give the Golden Eagles a 3-2 advantage in the 80th minute. Renwick's pair of scores moved the sophomore forward to four net-finders this season.

Just like Tech did earlier in the half with its two equalizers, it was now Columbia's turn to pull even and did so a mere three minutes later. A Golden Eagle handball in the box allowed the Lions (0-1-2) a penalty kick, which Maia Tabion took full advantage of with a deadlocking score in the 83rd minute that pushed the proceedings to 3-3.

With a tie seemingly imminent, the Golden Eagles had other ideas thanks to an Anna Baker goal in the 86th minute for the freshman's second goal of the season and second in the last three matches. Renwick started the attack with a bid that was blocked in the box, but Baker capitalized on the ricochet behind a rocket into the upper left corner of the net that put Tech ahead 4-3 with just over four minutes remaining. Renwick tallied an assist on the play to wrap up a five-point evening.

With the finish line in sight, Columbia spoiled the chance at TTU's first victory of the year thanks to another Ramirez net-finder to cap off a hat trick for the senior out of Elizabeth, N.J. Dema Elder started the scoring with a ball over the top of the Tech defense that Ramirez caught up with and flicked over the leaping try of Maggie Conrad for the eighth and final goal of the night.

Conrad would end her evening with nine stops for the second-most in a match this season. Lauren Rodriguez recorded only one save across the way.

Ramirez led the contest with six shots and four on-frame, while Renwick produced a Tech-best four total attempts.