Women's Soccer Southern Conference

SoCon Women's Soccer Results from Thursday, October 21

Elon 6, The Citadel 1

ELON, N.C. -- The Elon women's soccer team won its second consecutive game thanks to career days from Tina Longo, Monica Houseworth and Alisa Petitt. The Phoenix trio combined for four goals and five assists as Elon defeated The Citadel 6-1 in a Southern Conference tilt at Rudd Field on Thursday afternoon. The victory improved the Phoenix to 3-10-1 overall and 2-5-1 in league play. The Bulldogs slipped to 2-12-1, 0-8-1.

Longo got the scoring started in the 12th minute when she converted Elon's first penalty kick attempt of the season for her third goal of the season. Erin Gaeng, playing only her third career game as a forward, put the Phoenix up 2-0 at 23:09 when she knocked in a corner kick for her first goal of the season and second of her career. Longo and Houseworth each were credited with assists on the play.

The Citadel cut the lead in half when Julie Austin netted her second score of the year when she settled a Maggie Bryan pass and lobbed the ball over Elon's Amy Cahill at 37:35.

Elon scored the first of its four second half goals at 74:42 when Houseworth headed Longo's corner past the Bulldogs' Angie Ellenwood for her third goal of the year and second in two games. Longo and Houseworth each earned assists on Elon's fourth score, an Alisa Petitt goal off a corner at 76:17.

Lacey Whitmer scored her first career goal in the 79th minute off an assist from Kelly Williams to put Elon ahead 5-1. Petitt scored her second of the game, and third of the year, in the 88th minute off a cross from Gillian Murray to finish off the scoring for the day.

The six goals scored by Elon are the most since Elon shutout Greensboro College 8-0 on September 26, 1996. Elon also set new season highs in assists (7), shots (32) and shots on goal (17).

The Citadel tallied 11 total shots, including 10 on goal.

Cahill went 78:06 in net for Elon, allowing one score and making six saves. Kaitlin Lannon played the final 11:54 and corralled three saves for the Phoenix. Ellenwood went the distance in front of the goal for The Citadel, grabbing 11 saves.

Elon heads to Chattanooga for a 2:00 p.m. tilt with the Lady Mocs on Sunday while The Citadel will travel to Navy for a 1:00 p.m. matchup that same day.

UNC Greensboro 5, East Tennessee State 0
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 21, 2004) - The Buccaneer women's soccer team fell to the Spartans at home in a grueling 5-0 decision at Liberty Bell Field. ETSU is now 5-6-3 overall, 2-3-3 in the SoCon, while UNCG's record stands at 10-4-1, 6-1-1.

In the first half both teams fought intensely for the early lead. The shots were fairly even in the half, ETSU made seven and UNCG made nine, but UNCG would find the back of the net first.
Deven Beachum scored first for the Spartans. Her first of two goals came at 12:19. Amy Carnell headed the ball to Beachum off a free kick by Rakel Logadottir for what would be the gamewinner.

Just 12 minutes later Beachum would cross the ball to Nicollette DeLaine who would find Carnell for UNCG's second goal, making the score 2-0 heading into the second half.
In the second, ETSU continued to fight, but the Spartans would score three more times before the end of the game with a 5-0 final.

Sarah Prendergast (Palm Bay, Fla.) made four saves in her time for the Bucs and falls to 2-3-1 and Christine Parks (Annapolis, Md.) made two. Their counterpart Jennifer Stillman made five saves for the Spartans and improves to 5-4-1 with the shut out.

"We battled hard against a very good team today," said Head Coach Heather Henson. "Our youth showed in defending the middle third and in our slowness to the attack. We need to focus and take care of the details in our last three."

The Buccaneers next match is set for Sunday, October 24 at 2:00 p.m. at Liberty Bell against the Davidson Wildcats, while the Spartans will now travel to Statesboro, Ga. to take on the Georgia Southern Eagles at 1:00 p.m. on the same day.