Women's soccer loses at home
The women’s soccer team had a difficult home stand to begin the year with a 2-0 loss to the Blues of Illinois College on Saturday.
“We made some position changes to increase our chances of creating offense. We moved freshmen Lauren Hawes up to center mid to help out freshmen Brittany Muston and junior Rachel Whipker to help create an attack against the Lady Blues,” coach Scott Moulton said.
“They are the most similar team we will play this year and we need to keep up the intensity from the second half of the
The first half was scoreless with sophomore Chelsea Parks facing three shots from the
In the 85th minute of the game junior Candy Norville netted the second goal for
“I was disappointed not with the team play, but the result because of the way the women played. The only disappointing thing is not putting the ball in the net,” said Moulton.
“The second goal, I will always sacrifice a defender to play for the tie or the win. The girls did a great job of learning the new positioning on the run and showed the way we will try and set up the rest of the season,” said Moulton.
“We have Earlham coming up on Thursday September 18 and we start conference play next weekend. We want to make sure everyone is healthy to begin rigorous conference schedule,” said Moulton.
“I saw the overwhelming improvement and overwhelming hope looking forward to the future of the young women soccer season.
The 1-3 Grizzlies will take on the 5-1 Earlham College Quakers in
