Indianapolis, Ind. - The Marian women's soccer team claim their first conference shutout on senior day against Goshen on Saturday afternoon. The Knights are now 8-1-2 overall and 1-0-1 in the Crossroads League.
The Knights honored their four-year seniors today before the match against Goshen. Marian honored;
Kinadee White,
Makayla Spangler,
Mollie Hill, Lillian Wosete,
Kathleen Lynch,
Jasmine Hermosillo, and
Hannah Wleklinski for all of their accomplishments as a team and individually as a Knight in the past four years.
To start off the first half the Maple Leafs took action first shooting a high shot at the goal. Once the Knights got the ball on their side of the field there was no stopping in sight.
Gretchen Mallin and
Layla Brown took back to back shots on goal before Mallin was able to get it in the back of the net to get on the board first.
Lizzie Chlystun was the next to claim a goal off of a penalty kick.
Katie Koger got her hand in the mix less than a minute later at the 38'' mark with
Naomi Walters claiming the assist. Walters finished off the first half with a goal off of an assist from Chlystun to take the 4-0 lead going into the half.Â
Kaitlyn Lavezzi and Brown claimed two back to back shots to open the second half before Brown was able to get it in the net with the assist from
Cecelia Kostick to increase the Knights lead. Marian continued to dominate the game tallying eight shots before
Olivia Parmer sealed the deal with a penalty kick with four seconds left to claim the 6-0 win.
Marian out-shot Goshen 21-2 with 14 being on target. Brown went 4-4 on the day while Mallin went 2-2. Lavezzi had five shots on the day while
Lauren Maresh had three.
Jordan Love and Parmer had two and, Koger, Chlystun, and Walters all had one.
Mycheala Johnson claimed the win for the day while
Lily Ames stepped in for the first 20 minutes of the second half and
Cassidy Nowlan stepped in for the rest in goal.
The Knights are back in action on Wednesday, October 2nd on the road against Taylor starting at 7:00 p.m.
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