Women’s Soccer Shuts Out Panthers
October 5, 2009 • By Sean Petrizzi,
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HARRISONBURG, Va. — The JMU women’s soccer team beat Georgia State 1-0 Sunday afternoon.
Madison ended its three-game conference home stand on a victory after splitting the first two games.
It took five saves from Panther goalkeeper Heidi Blankenship to keep the first half scoreless. JMU (6-4 overall) outshot Georgia State 13 to four, but couldn’t convert any shots to goals.
Senior forward Corky Julien and junior midfielder Teresa Rynier each had four first half shots for the Dukes.
Blankenship could do nothing to stop junior forward Cate Tisinger’s unorthodox shot five minutes into the second half.
“It was suppose to be a cross. No one thought it was going in,” Tisinger said. “I was shocked when it went in.”
The goal gave the Dukes a 1-0 lead. Rynier had the assist, her team-leading 10th of the year.
JMU widened the margin of shots on goal to 21 to seven but would not score another goal.
After controlling the game offensively, the team would have liked to win a bit more comfortably.
“We should be beating teams by more when we dominate the shots,” Rynier said. “But we did just enough to get our win.”
JMU Coach Dave Lombardo echoed Rynier’s disappointed view of the winning margin.
“Some wins are exciting and dramatic,” Lombardo said. “This wasn’t one of those games. We fought hard and got the result we needed.”
The win moves the Dukes record to 3-1 in the Colonial Athletic Association with a two-game weekend on the road
against Delaware and Drexel upcoming. The game also evened the team’s record for the weekend at 1-1 after a tough overtime loss to UNC Wilmington Friday night.
In that game, the Dukes and Seahawks battled to a scoreless tie after 90 minutes of regulation. But just five minutes into the extra period, UNC Wilmington’s Megan Novak snuck a ball in the box behind JMU junior goalkeeper Diane Wszalek to end the game.
“After the disappointing loss Friday, we know we have to make up for the points lost on the road,” Lombardo said. “Today was a good start, and it will continue Friday at Delaware.”
contact Sean Petrizzi at petrizsm@jmu.edu
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