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Goshen College

Women's Soccer

Haywood's Sixth Goal Not Enough To Stop Top-20 Opponent

Box Score

GOSHEN, Ind. — Ginyce Haywood scored her sixth goal of the season with 10:45 remaining in the first half, but a pair of early scores from 18th-ranked Taylor University gave the visitors the lead and two second-half goals sealed the deal in a 4-1 Crossroads League women's soccer loss Tuesday night at the John Ingold Complex.

Megan Kammer scored each of the first two goals for Taylor (12-1, 5-1), both coming on headers following corner kicks by Shannon Jacobsen after 14:42 and 22:08. Haywood's goal came 13 minutes and change later when she dribbled into the penalty area and made a defender miss before shooting.

The Trojans took 12 of the 18 shots in the first half and all six of the corner kicks, but entered the intermission with a lead of only 2-1 thanks to six saves by Goshen netminder Natalie Thorne.

Taylor added an insurance goal 100 seconds after halftime when Nikki Zaino received a diagonal pass and switched the field back to Bailey Zehr at the left goalpost. Zehr put the ball over the goalkeeper and in. Kammer assisted Zaino on the final strike with 31:00 to play.

Thorne finished with seven saves while Lauren Engelkes posted the shutout for Taylor, which finished with edges of 19-7 in shots and 8-0 in corner kicks.

"We still need to do a better job of putting together a full 90-minute game," said Goshen coach Scott Gloden. "Crossroads League teams are too good for us to take even a couple of minutes off at a time, and tonight Taylor made us pay for our mistakes."

With two-thirds of the conference season complete, Goshen is tied for sixth in the 10-team league with a 2-3-1 mark, half a game ahead of eighth-place Mount Vernon Nazarene. The Maple Leafs, who are 6-7-2 overall, visit MVNU on Saturday for a 3 p.m. kickoff in Ohio.

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