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MSU Soccer Uses Second Half Burst In 4-0 Win
10/10/2008 5:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
The Murray State Women's Soccer team notched a 4-0 win Friday at home against
The Racers now have a program record six straight games in which they are unbeaten.
MSU can tie the program record of five straight wins if they can win Sunday at Alabama A&M.
The Racers saw four different players put their names in the scoring column in moving their overall record to 8-4-1.
MSU's goal outburst began in the 60th minute and it got control of a match that was scoreless for a long while.
“I think we played 90 quality minutes,” Noted MSU Head Coach Beth Acreman, whose team peppered JSU with 36 shots on the day. “The shots were just not falling in the first half and I challenged the team to put away the scoring chances they were getting and I was very happy with the way they responded in the second half.”
Indeed, the ball would not fall in the first half when MSU had no less than 13 good scoring chances.
Their fortunes changed in the second half, starting with Katie Wilson's fourth goal of 2008 in the 60th minute on an assist from Audrey Wilson.
MSU scored again in the 67th minute when Kalli McCoy controlled a loose ball 10 yards in front of the JSU goal and blasted it in for her fourth of the season.
The Racers made it a 3-0 game in the 71st minute when former high school teammates Kalli McCoy and Laken Dirkes made a connection deep in JSU territory. Dirkes scored her first goal of the season off McCoy's high center pass from mid-field.
MSU added another goal in the 74th minute from Rebecca Shultz when she scored off a corner kick.
The Racer defense played another solid match in recording the fifth shut out of the season for goalkeeper Tara Isbell.
MSU limited JSU to 12 shots and Isbell made five saves in recording her ninth career shut out.
“Our defense is improving every game and I was happy with our possession,” Acreman added. “We'll go back to practice and keep working on it for the rest of the conference schedule.”
The Racers travel to
GAME NOTES
The Racers four-game winning streak is the second time Beth Acreman's team has accomplished that length of a streak. The program record is five straight when the Racers defeated
MSU is also on an unbeaten streak of six straight dating back to Sep. 14 when they defeated Louisiana-Monroe 3-0 in the second game of the Belmont Classic. MSU tied
Rachel Wright leads the Racers with six goals, and MSU has three others with four each: Sophie Hargreaves, Kalli McCoy, and Katie Wilson.
Tara Isbell has five shut-outs in 2008. The MSU record was set in the program's first season in 2000 when Karen Fitzharris (2000-03) recorded 10. Isbell's nine career shut-outs now ties her for second place at MSU with Heather Jones (2003-06).
Isbell's goals-against-average of 1.05 per game is second in the OVC in all games this season and her 0.25 average in league games is tops in the OVC. She has given only one goal in the last four matches.
The Racers are 5-3-1 overall this season at Cutchin Field and 2-0-0 in OVC games.
MSU is out-scoring opponents in OVC games by a 10-1 count and have out-shot opponents 82-43.
MSU's 36 shots on the day against
MSU has scored first in nine of 13 matches this season in posting a 7-1-1 mark. The only loss came in the season opener in a 2-1 loss to
The Racers tied the all-time series with the Gamecocks at 3-3.
After MSU plays Alabama A&M, they hit the road next weekend for an OVC trip to Morehead State and
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