Women’s soccer extends win streak with defeat of Penn

The Pride women’s soccer team kept the ball rolling on Friday Sept. 20, picking up their fourth win in a row and taking down the University of Pennsylvania Quakers, 2-1 at Rhodes Field in Philadelphia, PA. The Pride move to 6-3-0 and Penn drops to 4-2-1, seeing their three match win-streak come to an end.

All scoring for the Pride came in the first half as junior midfielder Lucy Porter put Hofstra on the board early in the ninth minute, chipping the ball into the goal off an assist from Miri Taylor. Porter leads the Pride in scoring, already collecting nine goals this season. 

The goal also marks the first one scored on Penn in three matches, with the Quakers shutting out their last three opponents.

Not long after, in the 22nd minute, Taylor extended the Pride’s lead to 2-0 thanks to a ball shot from the back line that made contact with Quaker goalkeeper Kitty Qu but still went in.

Hofstra saw six more chances at a goal through the first 45 minutes but went into halftime still up 2-0.

Going into the second half, Penn came back to score in the 57th minute off of a penalty kick, cutting Hofstra’s lead to 2-1. However, the Quakers couldn’t find the back of the net again as both of their remaining shots on goal were defended by Pride goalkeeper Sylar Kuzmich.

Junior midfielder Bella Richards saw a final opportunity to score for the Pride but couldn’t translate it into a goal as Hofstra defeated the Quakers 2-1 after the full 90.

The 2-1 loss for the Quakers marks the first time since their season opener--six matches ago against No. 3 Stanford University--they gave up more than one goal.

Hofstra had 16 shots throughout the match led by Sabrina Bryan with six, and three on goal, followed by Lucy Shepherd, Porter and Taylor each with three shots of their own. For Penn, the team collected 13 shots in total and Emily Sands and Katharine Larson both led the way with four.

In goal, Qu collected six saves for the Quakers and Kuzmich had 2 for the Pride.

The Pride will take the field next as they open up conference play facing Drexel University on Thursday, Sept. 26 at home. Kick off is set for 6 p.m.

This article was originally published on www.thehofstrachronicle.com.