FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. It was another successful night at Duggins Stadium for women's soccer as the team dominated over the visiting Wildcats of Johnson and Wales. A 6-0 sweep gave the Monarchs their highest scoring game of the season.
Of the six goals scored, Methodist was led by
Laura Harris with her second two goal game of her career, while
Amanda DeDomenico tallied her first collegiate goal.
JUST THE FACTS
Final score: Methodist def. Johnson & Wales 6-0
Records: Methodist 3-2-1, Johnson & Wales 0-4
Location: Duggins Soccer Stadium; Fayetteville, North Carolina
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Through the 90 minutes of play, the Monarchs possessed the ball in the front half for 64% of the game.
- Methodist got off to an early start, tagging the first two goals in the first 10 minutes of play. Harris secured the first goal off an assist from Tatiana Lourenco-Shiber while Corrine Shovlain tallied the second, from an assist by Rianna Orello.
- Two minutes into the second half, DeDomenico, a Monarch defender came into the front half to catch a pass from the middle. Taking a few dribbles down the right side, she managed to get a step on her defender and score the Monarchs third goal of the night.
- Minutes later, Madison Brunson kicked a pass out wide to Lourenco-Shiber who was breaking for the goal, to score Methodist's fourth goal.
- Lourenco-Shiber assisted Harris for the second time during the match with a dump off for Harris to tap it in.
- The last goal of the night came from Kelsey Burge in the 83rd minute of play, who was assisted by MaKenzie O'Connor off a cross into the box. Burge's goal registered her first goal of the season.
NUMBERS
- The Monarchs clearly showed their aggressiveness after posting a 35-3 shot differentiation, the most shots taken by MU in a single game since 2019 when the team took 54 against Averett.
- Of Methodist's 35 shots, 14 were on goal compared to the Wildcats' one.
- Johnson & Wales' goalkeepers still put in work by collecting eight saves of the 14 shots faced.
- The combined efforts of Caley Justice and Kaylea Carter in net gave the Monarchs their third shutout of the season, as Carter registered one save.
- Nine different Methodist players registered multi-shot performances, with Orello leading the way with a game-high six.
UP NEXT
Methodist stays home this weekend as the team welcomes the Bruins of Bob Jones University to Duggins Stadium on Saturday, September 17. The game is set to kick-off at 3 p.m.