Soccer recap: Rams fall to Wildcats in close match

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Sept. 11, 2015

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By Samuel Feldman
Athletic Communications

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- The Colorado State women’s soccer team dropped a close match, 2-1, to Northwestern on Friday afternoon at The Lagoon. All of the goals in the match were scored in an eventful second half of action. Despite the loss, the Rams’ fourth-consecutive, CSU halted its three-match scoreless skid with a goal from freshman Hannah Gerdin.

In the 61st minute, Gerdin gave the Rams a 1-0 lead when she scored her second-career goal with a bending ball that slipped into the right corner past diving Northwestern keeper Lauren Clem. With the goal, Gerdin pushed her team-leading point total to four on the season.

In the 64th minute of action Northwestern knotted the match, 1-1, after a penalty kick by Maria Grygleski found the bottom right of the net. The penalty was awarded after a tackle in the box. Shortly after, in the 77th minute, the Wildcats went on the attack and forced a breakaway. NU’s Kourtney Scott played the ball on the left wing of the box and ripped the ball into the bottom left hand corner past CSU keeper Jesse McGinley.

Colorado State notched nine shots and one corner kick during the match, while the Wildcats recorded 16 total shots and four corner kicks.

IN THEIR WORDS…
“We have to be better defenders, and know where we are (on the field). The penalty woke them up a little bit, and again we weren’t very good defensively today. We are going to try and turn this around and get better.” -- CSU Head Coach Bill Hempen

STAT OF THE GAME…
• Colorado State’s Hannah Gerdin scored her second career goal in the contest, becoming the first Ram to record multiple tallies this season.

NOTES…
• The Rams posted nine shots in the contest, just short of the team’s season high of 11 (at Saint Mary’s).
• Colorado State’s goalkeeper Jesse McGinley made three saves during the match and now has 28 total saves on the season. She entered action this weekend tied for third in the Mountain West with an average of 5.0 saves per contest.
• The Rams are now 0-1-1 in home games at The Lagoon this season, having recorded a 1-1 draw vs. Colorado in the home opener on Aug. 21.
• Today’s contest marks the first time this season the Rams have had a negative result after scoring first in the match. The Rams tallied the first score in their season-opening draw vs. Colorado (Aug. 21) and recorded the lone goal in a 1-0 win vs. Denver Aug. 23).
• Colorado State had three players play the full 90 minutes of action with goalkeeper Jesse McGinley, forward Janelle Stone and defender Megan Speed all playing the entire match.
• Two yellow cards were awarded in the match. The Northwestern bench received a yellow card in the 59th minute of action, and Wildcats’ Addie Steiner was given a yellow in the final minute of the contest.

NEXT UP:
Colorado State travels to Greeley, Colo., Sunday for a matchup against in-state rival Northern Colorado. The match will continue action in the 2015 Colorado Cup. Currently, the Rams are in second place based on a goal-differential tie breaker with Colorado. Fans can follow action with live stats at UNCBears.com, or by following @CSURamsSoccer for updates via twitter.

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