Oct. 21, 2007

Box Score

Fort Wayne, IN - The IPFW women's soccer team fell to Southern Utah, 2-0 on Sunday afternoon in a Summit League action at Hefner Field.

The match was the final home contest for IPFW's four seniors, Brittany Saylor, Heather Seerup, Korin Maciulski, and Jenny Thornton.

Due to an injury to goal keeper Malinda Holmer, IPFW junior midfielder Krista Null played her first contest in net. 

Null played outstanding, stopping five Thunderbird shots in the first 16 minutes of the match.

However, on their sixth try, the T-birds struck gold.  Senior midfielder Courtney Milligan sent a ball to junior defender Kimly Anderson just inside the IPFW box.  Anderson toed up a perfect shot that found its way into the upper left hand corner of the net for a, 1-0 Southern Utah lead.

Trailing, 1-0 late in the second half, IPFW put on a push and nearly tied the match at the 82:23 mark.  Senior forward Jenny Thornton dribbled through the Southern Utah defense and lifted a shot from about 15 yards that look like it would just sneak under the crossbar.  However, Thunderbird net minder Holly Senter just got her fingertips on the shot, deflecting it off the crossbar maintaining the lead.

Just three minutes later, SUU iced the game with an insurance goal.  Junior midfielder Kelsey Buchanan got Null out of position inside the 6 yard box and lost control of the ball, but senior forward Catherine Johnson was right on the door step to tap the ball into the open net for the final score of, 2-0.

Null, again, was brilliant in her goal keeping debut, stopping eight shots.

Senter only faced the one IPFW shot on goal in the win.

The Thunderbirds (4-5-5, 1-2-3 SL) out shot IPFW 17-12 on the afternoon.

IPFW (1-15-0, 1-6-0 SL) will conclude the 2007 season with a conference match at Oakland on November 3.  Match time is 1:00 p.m.

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