GREEN BAY, Wis. - The Green Bay women's soccer team
(4-10-3, 2-3-2 HL) was defeated 4-1 in its regular season finale by in-state conference
rival Milwaukee (10-5-3, 8-0-0 HL) Monday night at a cold, muddy Santaga
Stadium. It was Senior Night for the Phoenix, as Meghan McKenzie (Green Bay,
Wis.), Liz Metzler (Grayslake, Ill.) and Amanda Stinson (Green Bay, Wis.) were each
honored before the game.
The Panthers controlled the contest, scoring three first
half goals. Milwaukee outshot the Phoenix 27-6 in the match, including an 18-1 advantage
in the opening period.
Milwaukee struck early when senior midfielder Kate Megna
tallied her third goal of the season from the left side of the box following a
long pass from sophomore Sarah Hagan in the ninth minute. In the 26th minute,
junior Sarah Talbert fired a long shot from 40 yards out that got past Green
Bay goalkeeper Maddie Drusch (Appleton, Wis.) in the right side of the net.
Less than eight minutes later, Keara Thompson hammered home a goal from point
blank range to give the Panthers a three-goal lead heading into the half.
Milwaukee came out strong in the second stanza, as
sophomore forward Sammy Vovos netted her second goal of the season in the 49th
minute. Menga found sophomore Makenzie Gillaspie in the box, who passed it off
her head to Vovos, who headed it in the net without the ball ever touching the
ground.
The Phoenix got on the board in the 81st minute with a
penalty kick goal from freshman Lauren Somers (Bloomington, Minn.). Following a
Milwaukee hand ball, Somers drove the ball into the top right corner of the
goal, past the hands of goalkeeper Leslie Deebach.
Deebach recorded a pair of saves in the contest en route
to her third win of the season. Drusch hauled in eight saves in 45 minutes of
play for the Phoenix, while freshman Aliena Debelak (New Brighton, Minn.) had
four stops in the second period.
Despite the loss, the Phoenix has secured the No. 6 seed
in the 2009 Horizon League Tournament. Green Bay will take on third-seeded
Valparaiso this Sunday in opening round action.
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