SAN ANGELO, Texas – After celebrating six seniors, the Angelo State women's soccer team came away victorious 3-0 after beating Texas Woman's early Saturday afternoon at the ASU Soccer Complex.
The Rambelles improve to 12-2-2 overall and 7-2-1 in Lone Star Conference play following the victory. The Pioneers drop to 1-8-6 on the season and 1-4-5 in the LSC.
90 MINUTE RUNDOWN
- The Rambelles got the game started with their fastest goal of the season, scoring via a Reagan Urbany laser beam in the fourth minute after a beautiful series of passes from Madison Stokes and Katelin Heise.
- Cindy Rodriguez would follow that up just a minute later, scoring on a rebound from a Stokes shot.
- Urbany would have a shot saved in the 14th minute before striking another ball past the Pioneers keeper in the 16th minute to give herself a brace.
- Kira Miller would make her only save of the contest in the 17th minute.
- An offside call would soil Urbany's hat trick, as she converted a header that was ruled out.
- The Belles would take four more shots to end the period, while TWU took two, both missing the frame of the goal.
- The second half would miss the goals the first half had, but did begin with a pair of yellow cards on the Pioneers.
- Urbany would get two more shots on target, but to no avail.
- A yellow card for Madison Maxey would be the next action in the 75th minute.
- Breanne Bittick would register a shot on target, forcing a save from the Pioneers keeper later in the 75th minute.
- Stokes would be shown a straight red card as the games final action in the 82nd minute.
GAME NOTES
- Urbany scored her fifth and sixth goals of the season, she now sits eight most in the conference.
- Heise and Rodriguez would both earn their fourth assists of the year, bringing them tied for first on the team and fifth in the LSC.
- Stokes earned her first assist of the season and the first red card in her career.
- The Rambelles netted their fastest goal of the season after scoring just four minutes and ten second into the contest.
- The minute and twelve seconds between the first and second goals was the shortest amount of time between goals this year.
- The three goals scored by the Belles match their season high.
- Urbany's two goals are the first time that a Belle has scored multiple goals in a match this season.
- Miller earns her 10th clean sheet of the season, bringing her to sole position of first in the conference and now tied for the most in NCAA DII.
- Miller is now two clean sheets from tying the LSC all-time record and is four saves away from breaking the Angelo State all-time saves record.
COACHES TAKE
"The seniors have a huge impact today on senior day, Reagan with two goals, Cindy with one and an assist, Stokes adding an assist as well," said Rambelles Head Coach
Travis McCorkle. "I was a little bit disappointed that we didn't get the fourth, we had some chances and I think in certain moments we just didn't move the ball quick enough in the final third. They were more organized in the second half. When we move the ball quickly in the final third, that's when we get goals, you could see that early in the first half. Overall, a really strong performance for the girls wanting to make sure they could send the seniors off in the celebration we wanted too."
NEXT UP
The Rambelles are back home next Tuesday for an early week match against St. Edward's, kickoff scheduled for 7 p.m. at the ASU Soccer Complex.