BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Embry-Riddle women's soccer team notched its 10th victory of the 2015 season with a 2-0 road win at Lynn on Saturday. The Eagles scored one goal in each half of play to improve their overall record to 10-3-1.
"Cally [Morrill] has an athletic team with some good pace, so we knew coming in that was something we would have to deal with," ERAU Head
Samantha Bohon said. "If I'm being truthful, it wasn't the prettiest game on our end, but I'm pleased with the effort."
The Eagles' first goal came in the 24th minute after
Gudrun Johnson collected the ball on the left side of the pitch and lifted a cross into the box. An unmarked
Isabelle Haaranen got a shot off from point-blank range that was saved by Lynn's Alexa Downie. But Downie's kick-save went right to the feet of
Johanna Karlsson who buried her first goal of the year to give the Eagles a 1-0 lead.
The Eagles had a few more dangerous chances, including a
Katherine Ebbs free kick that went off the cross bar, and a
Kristin Sverrisdottir shot that Downie stopped with a diving save.
Olivia Lynch also came up with two big saves in the first half and the goalie performances resulted in a 1-0 halftime lead for the Blue and Gold.
Less than four minutes into the second half,
Andrea Froshaug doubled the Eagle advantage.
Janina Helwig dispossessed a Lynn midfielder and found Froshaug moving down the right side. The senior outpaced her marker and raced into the box where she rifled a low shot across the goal and into the far side netting to make the score 2-0.
Midway through the second period, the Eagles turned back a strong rally by the Fighting Knights, then went on the offensive once again. The best chance at adding to the tally came in the 82nd minute when Downie had to come up with big saves to keep back-to-back shots by
Rachel Owens and
Tiffany Larsen from finding the back of the net.
Downie finished with 10 saves for Lynn who moved to 3-11-2 with the loss. Lynch finished hauled in six saves for the Blue and Gold on the way to her ninth shutout of the season, which ranks second on ERAU's single-season shutout list.
"At the beginning of our Sunshine State Conference schedule, we set an ambitious goal of trying to finish near or at the top of this conference. We knew our games wouldn't officially count towards conference standings, but our players and staff took this season very seriously. So, for us to finish the conference play 7-2-1 and have a mathematical chance of unofficially winning the regular season is a fantastic accomplishment by our team in this first year of Division II."
The Eagles will be back on the road on Wednesday when they return to South Florida to take on Barry for the second time this season. Game time is slated for 7 p.m.
