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McKinley at Walsh WSOC 2022
4
Winner Ashland ASH (10-3-0, 8-1-0)
0
Lake Erie LEC (1-10-1, 0-9-0)
Winner
Ashland ASH
(10-3-0, 8-1-0)
4
Final
0
Lake Erie LEC
(1-10-1, 0-9-0)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Ashland ASH 3 1 4
Lake Erie LEC 0 0 0

Game Recap: Women's Soccer | | Dusty Sloan, Ashland University Director of Athletic Communications

No. 24 AU Women Return To First-Place Great Midwest Tie After Fifth Straight Clean Sheet

For a fifth consecutive game, Ashland University's women's soccer team not only won, but kept its opponent off the scoreboard.
 
On Sunday (Oct. 9) afternoon at Lake Erie, the No. 24-ranked Eagles took a 4-0 decision from the Storm – extending both AU's win and shutout streaks. Ashland is 10-3 overall and 8-1 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, moving back into the first-place tie with Cedarville.
 
The Eagles' fifth consecutive shutout is the program's longest since blanking six straight opponents during the 2003 season.
 
Lake Erie is 1-10-1, 0-9 following a 13th consecutive loss to the Eagles.
 
WHAT HAPPENED
  • Sophomore forward McKinley Mendenhall, Ashland's leading scorer coming into the game, started the Eagles' offensive output on Sunday with her fifth goal of 2022 in the 18th minute. Sunday marked her fourth consecutive game with a goal.
  • Mendenhall made it a 2-0 game in the 25th minute with her second goal of the contest and team-high sixth of the campaign – as she recorded her first career collegiate brace.
  • Ashland's lead was extended to 3-0 in the 30th minute when freshman forward Dani Hicks put in her fifth goal of the season. That marked the first time the Eagles scored at least three goals in a first half since Oct. 11, 2019 at home vs. Northwood (three).
  • Freshman midfielder Leiah Goedde gave the Eagles their fourth goal of the game (most in a game this season) in the 71st minute with her first collegiate tally.
  • Three of the four goals were assisted - fifth-year midfielder Georgia Nagucki with two of the helpers for three on the season, and Hicks with the other, also for three on the campaign.
 
THE WRAP-UP
  • Sophomore goalkeeper Bri Rogers earned her seventh shutout of the fall, and her 15th in less than two full seasons as an Eagle. Rogers had one save in Sunday's victory.
  • Ashland outshot Lake Erie by a 17-1 count, and the Eagles had all seven of the game's corner kicks.
 
UP NEXT
Ashland's women will have their Breast Cancer Awareness Night on Thursday (Oct. 13) at 6:30 p.m. against Malone (1-7-3, 0-6-3) at Ferguson Field.
 
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