Oct. 21, 2007
Box Score
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - The Kennesaw State women's soccer team dropped its first Atlantic Sun Conference match on Sunday afternoon as the Owls fell 3-1 to East Tennessee State at Summer-Taylor Stadium.
The loss ends KSU's 12-match win streak and puts the Owls in a tie for first place in the league with Mercer as the Bears defeated USC Upstate, 5-2.
KSU (12-3, 7-1 A-Sun) jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the 31st minute when forward Caitlin Dingle scored her 13th goal of the season on a header off a deflection. The Owls nearly stretched their lead but senior forward Annie Phillips was denied twice by ETSU keeper Rachel VanHorn to keep the score 1-0 heading into halftime.
The second half was a much different story as ETSU (7-5-3, 3-4-1 A-Sun) started to apply pressure in both ends of the field. The Buccaneers held the Owls' offense without a shot in the second stanza while managing to have seven of their own.
East Tennessee State tied the match in the 68th minute when Kelly Brinkman's 40-yard rocket found the back of the net to knot the score at 1-1.
Last season's A-Sun Freshman of the Year, Jordan Monty, scored the game winner in the 76th minute when she fired a shot from the corner of the box past Owls' keeper Katie Piotrowski to put the Bucs ahead 2-1. ETSU scored an insurance goal five minutes later as Katie Green scored her fifth tally of the season to send KSU home with its first league loss of the season.
Piotrowski made four saves in the losing effort for the Owls, while VanHorn made four of her own for the Buccaneers.
The Owls will return to the KSU Soccer Complex for their final two regular season matches on Thursday night as they play host to Campbell, before a showdown with Gardner-Webb on Saturday night. Both matches will kick off at 7:00 p.m. and can be seen on A-Sun.TV.
