Low's Goal and Assist Leads W. Soccer to Regular-Season Finale Win, 2-0

Thursday, November 1

Davidson, N.C.

7 p.m.

Davidson College Athletics

13-4-1, 8-1-1SoCon

Ga. Southern*

3-12-2, 2-6-2SoCon

Georgia Southern

Davidson

Blakely Low pushed her season point total to 12 with a goal and assist in leading Davidson to a 2-0 win.

Low's Goal and Assist Leads W. Soccer to Regular-Season Finale Win, 2-0

11/1/2007 9:23:00 PM | Women's Soccer

Box Score

Gavin McFarlin - Assistant SID

DAVIDSON, N.C. – After finishing out the month of October with four straight wins, the Davidson women's soccer team continue their winning ways by starting out November with a 2-0 Southern Conference victory over Georgia Southern behind the strong play of sophomore Blakely Low (San Antonio, Texas) on Thursday night at Alumni Stadium. The Wildcats concluded the regular-season on a five-match winning streak to push their overall mark to 13-4-1 and finish league play at 8-1-1. GSU dropped to 3-12-2 overall and 2-6-2 in the SoCon.

The win for the 'Cats tonight helped them avenge a 1-0 loss to the Eagles in the quarterfinals of the SoCon Tournament last year.

Davidson, who clinched the number two seed in the upcoming SoCon Tournament, will now play host to Wofford on Sunday afternoon at Alumni Stadium in the quarterfinals. Wofford tied Elon for seventh place, but won the tie-breaker by virtue of a 2-1 win over the Phoenix in the regular season.

Prior to the game, Davidson honored its three seniors and tri-captains, Bevin English (Charleston, S.C.), Nancy Haskell (Blacksburg, Va.) and Kristen Koehrn (La Mesa, Calif.). The trio are currently the winningest class in program history as they have helped Davidson go 50-25-6 during their four-year careers.

But on a night in which the seniors were honored, it was a duo from the sophomore class who assured their older teammates that the future will be in good hands. Sophomores Low and Suzanne Sittko (Greenwood Village, Colo.) each scored a goal, and Low assisted on the second goal to lead Davidson to its fourth straight shutout win, and school-record tying 10th of the season.

Low kicked in the eventual game-winner in the 38th minute on a break-away. Freshman Amanda Flink (Richardson, Texas) started the play when she feed a through ball in the middle of the field to a streaking Low, who slipped by the Eagle defense and broke for the ball. After gathering in the pass, she drove into the box and struck a right-footed shot to the near post for her fifth score of the season and a 1-0 lead.

GSU got off only two shots in the first half as it was forced to drop most of its players back to stop the Wildcat attack, which got off 13 shots in the half and 19 for the game.

Sittko then kicked in an insurance goal at the start of the second half. Four minutes into the new period at the 49:18 mark, the sophomore got a through ball from Low just past midfield on the near side where she then got off a shot from the right to the back post for her fifth goal of the season and the final score of 2-0.

The Eagles did pick up three more shots on the evening, placing all three on goal, but English was there to stop all three shots as she recorded her SoCon-best 10th shutout.

Laura-Ashley Harris finished the night with 10 saves as Davidson placed 12 of the their 19 shots on goal.

Davidson opens the SoCon Tournament with a matchup against Wofford, whom the Wildcats tied earlier this season, on Sunday at 3 p.m.

Scoring Summary
38:20   DAV   Blakely Low (5) (Amanda Flink)
49:18   DAV   Suzanne Sittko (5) (Blakely Low)

Game Note: Low's assist was her second on the season, giving her 12 points on the season ... the 10 shutouts this year ties the record set by 1999 and 2005 teams ... Davidson's 13 wins on the season matches the 1999 team for second most in a single season, while their eight SoCon wins also matches the 1999 team for second most in a season ... the five-game winning streak is second most on the season after rattling off an eight-game unbeaten streak from Sept. 16-Oct. 12 ... for the third straight year, Davidson has earned either a number one or two seed heading into the SoCon Tournament.