Murray State University Athletics
MSU vs EIU Tuesday In OVC Soccer Tournament
11/5/2007 6:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
The Murray State Racers are preparing this week to make a run at the 2007 Ohio Valley Conference Soccer Tournament championship. After finishing up the regular season Sunday with a 2-1 overtime win at UT-Martin, the Racers are resting nagging injuries and fine tuning their game. MSU will host
Click here to see and print the OVC Soccer Tournament bracket.
The 2007 season for the Racers has been their best since the program was launched in 2000. The Racers' 11 total wins is two better than the 2000 team had and for the first time MSU has played a season without a tie score as they are 11-7 overall and 6-3 in the OVC.
Individually, 2007 is also a season in which several Racer players are putting their names in the MSU record book.
Rebekah Clay's team-leading six goals means she has 22 in her career and is three from catching second place Jackie Thomas (2000-03), Theresa Reedy (2001-04) is still the all-time goal scorer at MSU with 34. Clay has 56 career points and is one away from Thomas' second place mark of 57.
Sara Struve has two assists this season and is tied for second all-time with Emily Schaller (2000-03) each with 14. Lauren McAdams (2000-03) is the all-time leader with 15.
Freshman goalkeeper Tara Isbell has the second best single season with 1,381 minutes in goal and will surpass Annie Fortier's 2004 mark of 1,422 minutes in the first half of the Racer's play off game. Isbell has also recorded four shutouts this season and all have come at Cutchin Field: against Lipscomb,
