Box Score
Hickory, N.C.----Wingate University freshman midfielder
Jade Montgomery (Monroe, N.C.) scored two goals, but Lenoir-Rhyne University sandwiched four goals between them to take a 4-3 South Atlantic Conference women’s soccer victory over the visiting Bulldogs Saturday night at Bears Field. L-R senior midfielder
Catherine Hauck (Lake Mary, Fla.) had two goals for the home-standing Bears.
The number six team in the NSCAA/Continental Tires NCAA Division II top 25 poll, Lenoir-Rhyne improves to 14-1 overall and 8-0 in the SAC. Wingate sees a 10-match winning streak end Saturday. The Bulldogs are 11-3 overall and 6-1 in the SAC. Wingate handed L-R its only regular season SAC defeat in 2010.
Montgomery gave the visitors a 1-0 lead in the fourth minute, converting a header from a throw-in by sophomore defender
Carson Williams (Kernersville, N.C.). Lenoir-Rhyne tied the contest in the 21st minute, as junior midfielder
Carley Griffin (Fresno, Calif.) scored an unassisted goal from long range. Griffin’s goal was the first goal Wingate has allowed in league play this year.
Hauck scored her first goal in the 34th minute. The unassisted tally would complete the first half scoring, as Lenoir-Rhyne led 2-1 at intermission. Wingate outshot Lenoir-Rhyne 11-7 in the first half. Both teams registered three corner kicks in the opening stanza.
The Bears would take a 3-1 lead when senior defender
Jessica Schob (Ione, Calif.) scored on an assist from classmate
Laura Linehan (San Diego, Calif.) in the 49th minute. After Hauck pushed L-R’s advantage to 4-1 two minutes later with a header into the net, Wingate responded with two quick goals.
Wingate junior defender
Kelly Moldenhauer (Charlotte, N.C.) scored on a penalty kick in the 53rd minute. Montgomery’s second goal of the night (and seventh of the season) at the 55:31 plateau concluded the scoring. Bulldog senior forward
Kelly Adams (Matthews, N.C.) assisted on the second of Montgomery’s two headers.
Lenoir-Rhyne junior goalkeeper
Caitlin Scruggs (Torrance, Calif.) notched the win after stopping five shots. Wingate freshman netminder
Ashlyn Hardie (Summerfield, N.C.) suffered the loss.
Both Hauck and Griffin are tied for the L-R team lead in goals with 10 each. The Bears host Tusculum College next Saturday at 5 p.m., while Wingate returns home to host Lincoln Memorial University Monday at 2 p.m.
(Thank you to Lenoir-Rhyne sports information director
John Karrs for his contributions to this story.)
