Guilford College Women’s Soccer Sports Plenty of Offense, Another Clean Sheet In Victory Over Averett
Johnson nets first-career game-winner in non-conference clash with ODAC foe
from Bryce Johnson, Director of Athletic Communications
DANVILLE, Va. – Holding the opposition, this time Averett University (1-4-1, 0-0-0 ODAC), to single-digits in shots for the sixth-consecutive match, the Guilford College women’s soccer team (4-0-2, 0-0-0 ODAC) got their offense going on Saturday night at Daly Field at Frank R. Campbell Stadium, coming home with a 3-0 victory in non-conference action.
Still yet to concede a goal over her three appearances this season, Madison Motto (Waxhaw, N.C.) did set an early-career-high with three saves on the six shots sent her direction to improve to 3-0-0. Tia Chrons was peppered with 28 shot attempts for AU, making 11 saves against three goals permitted in the losing effort to drop to 0-3-0.
Zekiah Johnson (Winston-Salem, N.C.) lit the spark of the Guilford offense, netting her first-career game-winning tally on her lone shot attempt. Sarah Miller (Charlotte, N.C.) also pitched in a score in reserve with Lily Brown (Boone, N.C.) later adding an insurance goal. Ashlyn Miller (Charlotte, N.C.) provided the helper on the first two Quaker goals while Sarah Bain (Haymarket, Va.) led all players with five shots.
Delaney Haymore was the lone Cougar with multiple shot attempts on the night, getting one on-frame. The other four AU shots were evenly dispersed over four players with Madie Pedraza and Isabella Kelly each getting a look at the frame.
Guilford pitched a tent in their offensive zone in the game’s early stages, before they finally broke through in the 26th minute. Ashlyn Miller worked from the left wing to center-pitch before swinging a pass the Johnson, on the right wing. The senior then attacked the space afforded by the Cougar backline, getting inside the 18’ off the left post and ripped a shot back across the crease with her right foot, = under the diving Chrons for her second tally of the year.
The hosts would muster their only two shots of the half over the ensuing minutes, but GC would tack on a second tally in the 37th minute of play. Applying great pressure, albeit with lots of congestion in the offensive zone, Grace Overton (Apex, N.C.) threw her foot in front of, and knocked down a clear attempt deep in Averett territory, with the ball rolling right to the feet of Miller. She would thread a pass between defenders to her sister, Sarah Miller who got it just beyond top-right corner of the 6’, going bottom-right for her second goal of the fall.
Into the second half, the Quaker pressure continued to wreak havoc, and in the 59th minute, it caused a misfired pass by a Cougar defender deep in their own territory. Brown aggressively pursued the free ball into the AU 18’, breaking the opposition’s backline, then got a shot from beyond the right post, beating the keeper, who was off her line, to the top-middle for her first goal of the campaign, bringing the tallies to their final of 3-0.
Guilford will hit the road one last time on this elongated stretch away from Appenzeller Field, heading to Charlotte to battle Johnson & Wales University for a 6:00 PM contest on Monday, September 22nd.
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Campbell, Cyr’s Top-Ten Finishes, Several College Debuts Highlight Guilford College Cross Country At Yeti Invitational
The Quaker men’s squad took fourth collectively in the competition
from Bryce Johnson, Director of Athletic Communications
SHELBY, N.C. – The Guilford College men’s and women’s cross country teams competed at the Yeti Invitational hosted by Cleveland Community College in Shelby, N.C. on Saturday morning. The men’s team finished fourth among team finishes.
A four-team field factored into the team results in the men’s 8k race, while only one team finished with scores in the women’s 5k race. The field was comprised of NCAA Division-III, NAIA, NCCAA, and Junior College schools, along with unattached runners competing.
Jeremy Harway (Apex, N.C.) was the top finisher on the men’s side for the Quakers, finishing 18th out of 29 competitors, with a time of 35:51.64 in the 8K race. Rounding out the Quaker finishes on the men’s side were Trenten Torain (Durham, N.C) in 26th place with a time of 42:07.06, JC Yañez (Thomasville, N.C.) in 27th place with a time of 42:26.08, Cedric Blowe (Indian Trial, N.C.) in 28th place with a time of 45:47.51, and Ke’Shaun Alston in 29th place with a time of 45:52.45, making this a new personal best for the freshman.
On the women’s side, Piper Campbell (Wilmington, N.C.) had the top finish in the women’s 5k race for Guilford, earning herself a Top-10 finish, placing sixth out of 22 competitors, with a time of 24:09.40. Shortly behind her was Sadie Cyr (Hadley, Mass.) with an eighth-place finish and a time of 25:11.07 in her Quaker debut. Bess Parnell (Cairo, Egypt) finished in 12th place with a time of 26:13.52, and Alyssa Daniel (Spring Lake, N.C.) was the final finisher for the Quakers, earning a 15th place finish with a time of 27:07.46.
Cross country will return to the course next on Friday, October 3rd to compete in the Spartan Classic hosted by UNC Greensboro in nearby Kernersville, N.C. Start time and meet details have yet to be released.
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