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NEWBERG, Ore. – What began as a first-half
defensive stalemate turned into a second-half shootout as the
16th-ranked Whitworth University Pirates out-gunned the George Fox
University Bruins 3-2 in a Northwest Conference women's
soccer match Sunday afternoon here at Morse Field.
Through their first 11 games, the scores of every George Fox game
had been either 1-0 or 2-0, and the first half of this one appeared
as if it would be no different. George Fox
managed eight total shots and three on goal to seven shots and one
on goal for the Pirates in the first period, with neither team able
to dent the scoreboard.
The fireworks began early in the second half.
Whitworth's Lindsey Oakes sent a corner kick from the left
into the middle, where Whitney Ramsey and Jenny Krzymowski both
kept the ball alive with headers before Kelly Baker was able to
knock a scoring header into the net from the left side for a 1-0
lead at 47:54. It was her second goal of the
season.
The Pirates nearly made it 2-0 four minutes later when Krzymowski
had two header tries following a corner kick, the first one
bouncing back off the crossbar and the follow-up sailing just over
the bar. That enabled the Bruins to tie the game
at 54:14 when Jenny McKinsey was fouled in the penalty box and
scored her fifth goal of the season, banging a shot off the left
post that caromed back into the right side of the net.
Whitworth regained the lead at 59:08 when Krzymowski, with an
assist from Baker, scored her first goal into the far corner of an
empty net from the left side of the penalty box after George Fox
keeper Sally Page had come out to contest the
attack. Back came the Bruins to make it 2-2 at
62:55 when Nicole Akiu launched a corner kick from the right to the
far side of the keeper's box, where McKinsey headed it back
into the middle and Sophia De Graff knocked in the equalizer for
her first score of the year.
The Pirates appeared to have taken the lead five minutes later
when Krzymowski hit another one into the net, only to have the
score waved off by an offsides call. They
managed the game-winner at 81:07, however, when Oakes sent a corner
from the right side and Emily Rodhe slipped it home inside the left
post.
In the high-octane second half, George Fox took 13 shots, six on
goal, and Whitworth had 11 shots, five on goal.
The Pirates held a substantial lead in corner kicks,
11-3. Page made three saves for the Bruins,
while Pirate keeper Callie Bergstrom made seven stops en route to
the win.
George Fox (8-4, NWC 4-4) now faces its second ranked opponent in
as many games with a visit to the 5th-ranked University of Puget
Sound Saturday for a 12:00 noon match. Whitworth
(8-3-1, NWC 4-3-1) hosts Willamette University Saturday at 12:00
noon. Both games will be followed by NWC
men's games at 2:30 p.m.
