Eagles get win #10 with 2-0 shutout USI finishes regular season Wednesday

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The University of Southern Indiana women’s soccer team reached double-digit wins for the first time since 2012 with a 2-0 shutout of William Jewell College on Senior Day Sunday afternoon at Strassweg Field. USI goes to 10-5-2 overall and 8-3-1 GLVC, while William Jewell watched its record go to 7-9-1, 4-8-0 GLVC.

The win keeps the Screaming Eagles’ hopes to host a conference post-season game alive with one matches to play. USI, at press time, is a half-game out of first and in a three-way tie for second, pending the outcome of three GLVC matches that started at 2:30 p.m. Visit GLVCsports.com for updated standings.

USI sophomore defender Madelyne Juenger (Columbia, Illinois) put the Eagles up 1-0 in the first 10 minutes of the game. Juenger recorded her first goal of the season off a corner kick by freshman midfielder Madison Cady (West Chicago, Illinois). The Eagles would hold the 1-0 lead through the intermission.

In the second half, USI sealed William Jewell’s fate when senior forward Kennedy Moore (Evansville, Indiana) recorded her second goal of the season to make the score, 2-0 at 58:06. USI sophomore forward Maggie Winter (St. Louis, Missouri) fed ball through the middle of the Cardinal defense to Moore in front of the goal for the assist.

The Eagle defense took over after the Moore to get its seventh team shutout of the season and help senior goalkeeper Emily Hopkins (Greenfield, Indiana) to her third-straight shutout between the posts. Hopkins, who earned her ninth win of the season, made seven saves and faced 15 total shots in the match.

Prior to the match, the Eagles honored its eight seniors – Moore, Hopkins, defender/midfielder Olivia Wilde(Racine, Wisconsin), defender Hannah Huebner (Newburgh, Indiana), forward Carissa Dyer (Crescent Spring, Kentucky), midfielder Ryley Hancock (Evansville, Indiana), forward Kennedy Moore (Evansville, Indiana), midfielder Kirsten Rettig (Oregon, Ohio), and defender Emma Luczkowski (Westfield, Indiana).

USI concludes the 2018 regular season Wednesday when it travels to Lewis University for a 2:30 p.m. match-up. The Flyers entered today’s action with a 9-4-2 overall and 8-3-0 GLVC at home this afternoon versus Maryville University.

USI leads the all-time series, 14-5-3, since the Eagles’ program began in 1996. USI has a small advantage in the last five meetings, 2-1-2, after the Eagles and the Flyers battled to a 0-0 double overtime tie last fall in Romeoville, Illinois.