Box score
MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. --- Sophomore MaryBeth
Sullivan (Greensboro, N.C.) scored her 10th goal of the season in
the 65th minute to lead the Lees-McRae College women's soccer team
to a pivotal 1-0 win over Mount Olive College in Conference
Carolinas play on Saturday evening.
Lees-McRae (10-2-1, 9-0 CC) outshot Mount Olive (8-3-1, 7-2 CC)
by a 23-5 margin, including an 11-2 advantage in the first half, as
the Bobcats opened a two-game lead at the top of the conference
standings with just three matches remaining. The Bobcats, ranked
ninth in this week's NSCAA/Continental Tires NCAA Division II
Women's Soccer Southeast Region Poll, registered their first
victory over a regionally-ranked opponent in Cally Morrill's tenure
at the helm, as Mount Olive began the week ranked eighth in the
region.
Sullivan tallied the lone goal of the match, reclaiming the
team-lead with her 10th strike of the season. Freshman Kaitlyn
Briggs (Oviedo, Fla.) recorded two saves while playing the full 90
minutes as the rookie goalkeeper kept her eighth clean sheet of the
campaign.
The match remained scoreless until the closing seconds of the
65th minute, when LeeAnn Sullivan (Greensboro, N.C.) fed the ball
through to her sister MaryBeth on the left flank. MaryBeth Sullivan
then made a run along the top of the box across the face of goal,
putting herself in perfect position to send a blast into the upper
90 from 12 yards distance to give the Bobcats a 1-0 lead.
The Bobcats would hold the narrow margin for the duration of the
match, denying several forward runs by the Trojans en route to
their ninth shutout of the season.
Lees-McRae returns to the pitch on Wednesday when the Bobcats
host Erskine College in a conference matchup at Tate Field. The
match is slated to kick off at 5 p.m. following the Bobcats' senior
night festivities.
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