UNIVERSITY CENTER, Mich. - The Saginaw Valley State University
women's soccer team defeated Lake Erie College 4-0 today (Oct. 15)
in a Great Lake Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC)
contest.
The Cardinals got on the scoreboard first when junior Sam Echols
(Wolverine Lake, Mich./Walled Lake Central HS) found the back of
the net off a pass from sophomore Charley Porter (Midland,
Mich./Midland HS). Sophomore Lara English (Charlotte,
Mich./Charlotte HS) found Echols for her second goal of the
match-up at the 16:51 mark. Saginaw Valley would take the 2-0
advantage into halftime.
Echols completed her hat trick just eleven minutes into the
second half of play off a pass from freshman Shelby Wright
(Fishers, Ind./Fishers HS) to put Saginaw Valley up 3-0. With
four minutes left in the contest freshman Chelsea Dudek (Almont,
Mich./Almont) found the foot of junior Amanda Kady (Macomb,
Mich./Eisenhower HS) who scored the final goal for the
Cardinals.
Junior goaltender Anne
Berschbach (Algonac, Mich. / Algonac HS) and the Saginaw Valley
defense kept Lake Erie to only two shots on the game. The
Cardinals had 20 shots in the contest.
With the win Saginaw Valley moves to 7-5-1 overall on the
season, and 6-4-1 in the GLIAC, while Lake Erie falls to 2-10-1
overall on the season, and 0-10 in the GLIAC. The Cardinals
will be back in action on Sunday (Oct. 17) when they face Ashland
University. Game time is scheduled for 12:00pm.
