Friday, October 27, 2017
WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS —Facing a halftime deficit to the 16th-ranked team in the nation, the Eastern New Mexico University women’s soccer team faced a daunting task in its season finale. On the strength of two second-half goals from sophomore forward Ariel Lopez, the Greyhounds (4-8-6; LSC 3-5-4) accomplished that task with a 2-1 victory over Midwestern State (11-5-1; 6-4-1) at Stang Park.
“Our organization was massive tonight,” Head Coach Ryan Spencesaid. “Ariel was patient in the final third. That Eastern grit was there tonight.”
With the win, the Greyhounds have clinched the fifth seed in the upcoming Lone Star Conference Championships. Seedings and matchups will be posted at www.LoneStarConference.org later in the weekend.
In the Series
- The win paired with a tie at home over the Mustangs gives ENMU its first season-series win over MSU
- The victory was the Hounds second road win in the series
- The win was ENMU’s third over the Mustangs and first since a 1-0 road win on October 26, 2014
Beyond the Box Score
- The contest marked the fourth time ENMU had given up one or no goals on the road this season
- Eastern has had seven games overall this year with one or no goals allowed
- It was Ariel Lopez‘s first multi-goal game
- Alejandra Camarillo matched her second-highest save total (7), also in a win at Southern Nazarene
- Lopez has poured in 10 points (four goals, two assists) over her last five matches
- The goal was Lopez’s first game-winner of her career
- The contest was a homecoming for Spence, who spent three years at MSU as a player and two as a graduate assistant
In the Numbers
- The Mustangs held a 16-6 edge in total shots, which included a 12-3 advantage in the second half
- Midwestern State just missed tying the game at 62:02, when Brandy Villasana’s shot ricocheted off the crossbar of the ENMU goal
- Five of Camarillo’s seven saves came in the second half, with four coming after the go-ahead goal
