W. Soccer Stays Unbeaten, Gerow's Late Goal Leads to 2-2 Tie vs. Lehigh

Friday, September 5

Davidson, N.C.

7:00 p.m.

Davidson College Athletics

2-0-2

Lehigh

1-1-1

OT 3

OT 4

Lehigh

Davidson

W. Soccer Stays Unbeaten, Gerow's Late Goal Leads to 2-2 Tie vs. Lehigh

9/5/2008 10:41:00 PM | Women's Soccer

Box Score

Gavin McFarlin - Assistant SID

DAVIDSON, N.C. — Freshman Stephanie Gerow's (Houston, Texas) late second-half goal kept the Davidson women's soccer team's unbeaten streak alive to start the 2008 campaign as the Wildcats played to a 2-2 tie in the second game of the Davidson Tournament against Lehigh on a rainy Friday evening at Alumni Stadium.

College of Charleston took a 3-0 decision against Richmond in the first game of the tournament.

Davidson ran its record 2-0-2 with the tie, while Lehigh moved to 1-1-1.

Trailing 2-1 with just under 14 minutes to go in regulation, Gerow came up with a tying goal by taking advantage of a couple deflections off two Lehigh defenders for her first collegiate score.

Davidson's junior Kyri Bye-Nagel (Hanau, Germany), who scored the Wildcats' first goal, tried to cross a ball from the right side into the box, but it was deflected by the Lehigh defense who was trying to clear it out of the six-yard box. Gerow came in uncontested to the top of the 18-yard box where the ball laid, gather it in and fired off a low-liner to the near side post past a diving Mountain Hawks' goalie to knot things up at two apiece.

Bye-Nagel, fresh off being named the Southern Conference's Player of the Week on Tuesday, got the Wildcats on the board first with her third score of the season in the first half. The junior forward picked up her second straight header goal in as many games when she gathered in a rebound shot taken by junior Lauren Conner (Mechanicsburg, Pa.) and headed it into the far post for a 1-0 Davidson lead at the 17:21 mark.

Six minutes later, Lehigh countered with a header goal of its own as Ali MacLeod headed one in off the cross bar after the Mountain Hawks had thrown the ball in and Jana Basubas lifted a pass into the six-yard box.

Then after finishing out the first half tied at 1-all, Amy Mastromonaco gave Lehigh a 2-1 lead at the 59:56 mark when a Mountain Hawk corner kick was mishandled by goalie Christy Carry (Dallas, Texas), who had the ball slip off her hands and Mastromonaco was there for the top-shelf goal.

Both teams had a couple of good looks in the two overtimes, but were never able to capitalize resulting in the 2-2 tie. Lehigh got off a combined four shots in both overtimes and had two corner kicks, while Davidson got off two shots in the first overtime. Overall, Davidson took 19 shots with seven of them going on goal.

Carry and Lehigh's Lauren Mains both played all 110 minutes as Carry recorded six saves compared to Mains five.

Davidson takes a day off before it finishes up its own tournament with a 3 p.m. game against Richmond on Sunday, Sept. 7. Lehigh will play in the first game on Sunday after College of Charleston at 1 p.m.

SCORING SUMMARY
17:21   DAV    Kyri Bye-Nagel (Lauren Conner)
23:19   LEH    Ali MacLeod (Jana Basubas)
59:56 LEH    Amy Mastromonaco (unassisted)
77:45   DAV    Stephanie Gerow (unassisted)