The University of Southern Indiana women’s soccer team received goals from seven different players in posting a lopsided 8-0 shutout of Oakland City University Tuesday afternoon in Oakland City, Indiana. USI goes to 2-1-0 to conclude the non-conference portion of the season and the first half of the six-match road trip, while OCU starts the year, 0-2-0.
The Screaming Eagles built a 3-0 lead by the intermission on goals by senior forward Haley Rheinlander (Evansville, Indiana), junior forward Ryley Hancock (Evansville, Indiana), and the first of the match by freshman midfielder Sunny Lehman (Evansville, Indiana). The first half goals were the first of the year for Rheinlander and Hancock.
In the second half, USI exploded for five goals in posting the 8-0 final. Freshman forward Taylor McCormick (Rapid City, South Dakota) started the scoring barrage with her first collegiate goal. Lehman followed McCormick with her second goal of the year and her second as an Eagle to make the score 5-0.
Freshman forward Kourtney Kaiser (St. Louis, Missouri) increased the margin to 6-0 before sophomore midfielder Caroline Canoy (St. Peters, Missouri) and junior forward Caroline Dyer (Crescent Springs, Kentucky) rounded out the eight goal performance by the Eagles. The goals by Kaiser and Conoy were their first as Eagles, while Dyer’s was her first of the year.
USI opens the 2017 Great Lakes Valley Conference schedule on the road Friday when it visits the University of Missouri-St. Louis Friday at 5 p.m. and Maryville University Sunday at noon. The Eagles are not slated to play in front of the Strassweg Field home crowd until September 22 when it hosts the University of Indianapolis for a 5 p.m. GLVC match-up.
