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Beatriz Meneghin controls the ball in the midfield.
Tyson Miller
3
Winner Mount Vernon Nazaren MOUNT VE (5-4-0, 2-0-0)
2
Goshen GOSHEN (4-5-0, 0-2-0)
Winner
Mount Vernon Nazaren MOUNT VE
(5-4-0, 2-0-0)
3
Final
2
Goshen GOSHEN
(4-5-0, 0-2-0)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Mount Vernon Nazaren MOUNT VE 1 2 3
Goshen GOSHEN 1 1 2

Game Recap: Women's Soccer | | Tony Miller

GC strikes twice but can't hold off Mount Vernon Nazarene

Ten-minute stretch with three goals sees two tiebreakers favor MVNU

GOSHEN, Ind. — For the second consecutive matchup, the Goshen College women's soccer team took an early lead over Mount Vernon Nazarene University, but a go-ahead goal with 28:24 remaining proved to make the difference as MVNU topped the Maple Leafs 3-2 in a Crossroads League women's soccer match Wednesday night at the John Ingold Athletic Complex.

Karitas Maria Arnardottir and Beatriz Meneghin scored for the Maple Leafs (4-5, 0-2), with the former goal putting the home side up 1-0 in the 20th minute and the latter tying the score at 2 less than four minutes after MVNU had pulled ahead in the second half.

Brooklyn Bryant's breakaway strike, the odd goal in five, proved the difference as the Cougars (5-4, 2-0) stayed at the top of the Crossroads League through 2 matches.

Mount Vernon Nazarene outshot the Maple Leafs 21-11, but an end-to-end game led to quality scoring chances at both ends and 18 of the 32 shots were on target; on the other side of the coin, the teams combined for just three corner kicks and none in the first half.

MVNU took the game's first three shots before Goshen scored on its first, a through pass from Brynja Rut Hjartardottir to Arnardottir with 28:55 remaining in the first half. The lead lasted a hair more than 10 minutes before Savannah Zambory tied the score.

The Cougars had a number of chances to pull in front – four in the last 16 minutes of the first half – and would do so on a Sarah Townsend strike 7:36 after the intermission. Meneghin leveled things with a header four minutes later, but that tie lasted less than six minutes before Bryant put away the rebound to go up 3-2.

MVNU took five of the next six shots, and while Goshen had two corner kicks and five shots the rest of the way, only one was on goal.

MaKiah McCain made eight saves for GC while Emily DePolo made 5 for MVNU in her season debut.

Goshen continues its three-match homestand Saturday when it hosts the University of Saint Francis at 2 p.m. The match is part of Homecoming Weekend and will feature a halftime recognition of GC's 1971 men's team, which won the NAIA district championship and went on to nationals — the first Goshen team to go to nationals and one of only nine in school history.

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