ENMU women split soccer matches

BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS

PORTALES — Live by the late goal, die by the late goal.

That just about sums up the weekend slate for the Eastern New Mexico women’s soccer team, which split a pair of Lone Star Conference contests at home.

The ENMU women scored two goals in the final eight minutes of regulation Thursday to top UT Tyler 2-1, but came up on the other end of a 1-0 overtime loss to Texas A&M-Commerce Saturday.

The week put the Greyhounds at 4-2-1, with a 1-2 mark in Lone Star Conference play.

The Greyhounds will have some tough road contests coming up this week, 4 p.m. Thursday at No. 18 Dallas Baptist and noon Saturday against Texas Woman’s. DBU is the LSC’s only unbeaten team, and is coming off a 3-0 win Saturday over Lubbock Christian.

Against the Patriots — For a game with plenty of offensive chances — 27 total shots, 19 on goal — the scoreboard wasn’t impacted for the first 74 minutes.

The host Greyhounds trailed after an own goal at the 74:36 mark, resulting from a bad deflection off a Patriot corner kick.

About eight minutes later, the Greyhounds knotted things up when Caitlyn Schmidt split a pair of UT Tyler defenders and beat Maya Dossing on the left side.

Sophomore Desiree Morgas talled the game-winner, her second of the year, with 1:18 to go in regulation when she got a free kick just a few feet outside the box.

Junior Whitney Dockweiler made seven saves on the evening for the Greyhounds, who had a 17-10 shot advantage and a 12-7 advantage on goal. Camri Cecil played the first half for the Patriots (3-4, 1-2), making seven saves. Four Greyhounds — Morgas, Julia Tucker, Selena Casias and Kierra Diaz — each had three shots on the night.

Against the Lions — Kara Blasingame scored 4:03 into the first sudden death overtime session, and the Lions (5-3-1, 2-2) temporarily moved into a tie for sixth place with Texas Woman’s in the LSC standings.

Offensively, the Greyhounds won pretty much every other statistical category, with a 14-6 shot advantage (6-3 on goal) and a 6-4 edge in corner kicks.

Jen Peters was strong in net for the Lions, stopping all six ENMU shots

Morgas led the Greyhounds with five shots, three of them on goal.