Women's soccer scoreless streak extends to nine games
For a ninth straight game, the Franklin Grizzlies have been shut out, the tenth time on the year. This shut out came at the hands of the Yellow Jackets of Defiance College 3-0 in Heartland Conference play.
The Grizzlies have been held scoreless for 833 minutes and have allowed 32 goals in the span.
“We built up our confidence against the top team in the conference, Transylvania, on Thursday,” said coach Scott Moulton. “We need to get our first conference goal to get confidence. We need to solve our scoring woes.”
“We moved freshman Sarah Hume up top and moved her classmate Brittany Muston to play center midfield,” said Moulton. “I was pleased with the performance the girls had in the second half against Transylvania. We started to do the little things and we in the right place and at the right time in the second half.”
Defiance (5-5-1, 2-0 HCAC) played their opening conference game against the Ravens of Anderson and defeated them 2-1.
“Defiance likes to spread things out and are very similar to our team,” said Moulton. “They don’t have one game maker they have many go-to players that contribute to the attack.”
“We need to come out and not give up an early goal,” said Moulton. “We also need to come out mentally strong.”
The game opened in the second minute with Defiance striking quickly off a kick from senior Kaitlin Monberg. Freshman Alexandra Johnson got the helper on the goal.
A short minute later, Monberg helped herself to another goal, this one of the hand of sophomore Chelsea Parks and the post, with this one assisted by freshman Danielle Chadwick.
“We allowed two goals in the first three minutes, which will not win games,” said Moulton. “We can’t play from behind which is what we have done all year.”
In the first half, Parks took a blow to the back from freshman Monica Switzer off a corner kick that put Parks down for of a few minutes.
Parks recovered to record six saves in the first half. Hume was the only player to muster shots on goal for the Grizzlies in the first half with two.
“We need to play more selfish when we are one on one with the goalkeeper and take the shot.
“We have moved sophomores Jena Elder and Syd Surface to the middle and need them to dominate there and have good touches and play with more aggressiveness,” said Moulton.
The Yellow Jackets capped the scoring in the 56th minute off a tap-in goal from sophomore Amber Harrington. The goal came off of Parks and junior Rachel Whipker colliding allowing Harrington to score. Parks recorded eight saves in the second stanza.
The game had only one Yellow card which went to senior Sarah Plas on the takedown of Muston.
“This was the first time that we have had 13 healthy players,” said Moulton. “Syd is healthy and frehman Destiny Esper is back.”
