ETSU 3, Radford 1
RADFORD, Va. – A balanced offensive attack along with stellar goaltending helped the ETSU women's soccer team come away with a 3-1 victory over the Radford Highlanders on Monday night.
Winning back-to-back games to start the 2015 campaign, junior goalkeeper Jasmine Elliott now has 16 wins in her career, surpassing Megan Masch to become ETSU's all-time career wins leader.
ETSU provided the first goal of the game in the 21st minute as freshman Irina Brutsch scored her first collegiate goal. The Blue & Gold took a 2-0 lead into halftime thanks to senior Sarah Zadrazil netting her second goal of the season.
Radford was on the attack in the second half and that sustained attack was capped by senior Asyia Mitchell, who put the Highlanders on the board to cut the ETSU lead to 2-1. The Buccaneers made sure that there wasn't going to be a comeback, as junior Thomai Vardali iced the game her first goal of the season and gave ETSU the 3-1 victory.
ETSU begins a five game home stand on Friday Aug. 28 when it takes on the Golden Eagles of Tennessee Tech inside Summers-Taylor Stadium. Match is set for 7 p.m. The Bucs square off with the Atlantic Coast Conference’s NC State on Sunday, Aug. 30, at 1 p.m.
Wofford 2, Charleston Southern 2 (2OT)
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Wofford women’s soccer team played a hard-fought match with Charleston Southern on Monday night at Snyder Field, which ended in a 2-2 tie after two overtime periods.
Sophomore Katie Beuerlein opened the scoring for the match, driving home a ball past Charleston Southern keeper Liz Amanda Brown to put Wofford up 1-0 at the 15-minute mark. Buccaneer sophomore Anna Sells recorded the first of two goals for the match in the 62nd minute.
The Terriers would strike again within four minutes of giving up the lead. Freshman Hayley Younginer scored her first career goal on a hard grounder past the keeper into the back-left corner of the net.
After back-and-forth shot attempts for each team, Sells blew by Terrier defender Kendall Stanley and knocked her second goal into the back right corner of the net to tie the game up at two with 9:30 left to play.
Neither team could convert on opportunities in the overtime periods, which led to the eventual tie.
Wofford next plays on the road at Gardner Webb Friday night. The match starts at 7 p.m.