Women's Soccer Scoreboard (Sept. 18)
Green Bay 4, Northern Illinois 0
Milwaukee 2, Loyola 1
Green Bay 4, Northern Illinois 0
Scoring three or more goals for the fifth time this season, the Green Bay women’s soccer team cruised to a 4-0 victory on the road Thursday night, improving its record to 5-2-2 on the season.
Heidi Hartmann (Plymouth, Minn.) continued her stellar season by scoring her team and Horizon League leading eighth and ninth goals of the season. Hartmann headed one into the back of the net in the 28th minute, giving Green Bay the only goal it would need in the game, after Abby Juzwik (Madison, Wis.) sent a perfect pass off the corner kick into the box.
The junior struck again in the in the 72nd minute, again finishing on a masterful header off the foot of Juzwik. The goals were almost identical and put the game well out of reach.
Senior Hannah Kernen (Belleville, Wis.) scored two goals in a game for the second time this season, giving her four goals on the year. Kernen tallied her first goal of the game early in the second half, scoring in the 55th minute on an assist from Chandra Eigenberger (Green Bay, Wis.) after she sent one into the box and to the foot of Kernen.
The 63rd minute saw Kernen give the Phoenix a 3-0 lead, while Juzwik added her second of three assists in the game. The three assists in a game by Juzwik ties the school record, as her name will now be entered into the Green Bay record book.
While the offense was on fire, the defense was equally as tough, with Green Bay goalkeeper Nastacia Behle (St. Paul, Mo.) needing to make just one save in the game while recording the clean sheet.
Milwaukee 2, Loyola 1
Kelly Lewers and Krissy Dorre both scored to help lead the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women's soccer team to a 2-1 victory over Loyola University-Chicago Thursday night at Loyola Soccer Park.
The Panthers (3-6-0) actually trailed early in the match, but answered back with two goals in a seven-minute span to take the lead early in the first half and never look back.
Loyola now falls to 3-6-0 on the year.
"We're glad to get the win," Milwaukee head coach Greg Henschel said. "It's a good result. It's a tough environment to play here, there's no doubt about that. It wasn't the most assertive start we had, but we had a good response after conceding the early goal. We just keep working to clean things up, get better each day and just continue to be more consistent."
Loyola got an early break as UWM was whistled for a handball in the box. Valerie Gonyo converted the PK for her second goal of the year to give LU the early 1-0 lead.
Milwaukee came right back, however. Cassidy Blanchard sent a beautiful diagonal ball from the back line to a streaking Lewers, who one-timed her shot far post to beat the keeper and knot the game up at 1-1 just 15:32 into the contest.
Dorre then made it 2-1 for the Panthers just seven minutes later. Dorre had a great individual effort, dribbling around two defenders in the middle of the field before blasting a shot from just outside the top of the box and into the top corner for her second of the year.
From there it was all Milwaukee.
Dorre had another rip midway through the second half that looked like it was going in the bottom corner but a diving save by senior keeper Monica Gonyo kept the score the same.
Early in the second half, Amy Kauffung had a go with a shot through traffic inside the box but Gonyo again made a diving save.
Given an early lead, the Panther defense did its job the rest of the way. Loyola took eight shots on the day, but most were from distance and easily stopped by Paige Lincicum, who made six saves on the night.
"Our defending is improving," Henschel said. "Our team shape - we're becoming more and more connected each mach. I'm happy to see that. I think we could have been a little more assertive early in the match, but we played our way into it defensively and did a better job as the game went on and that clearly carried us through the second half."
