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Women's Soccer Tops VCU 2-1
08/29/2004 | Women's Soccer
Aug. 29, 2004
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - Senior Whitney Sikes (Charlotte, N.C.) scored the game-winning goal to give the University of Richmond women's soccer team a 2-1 victory over VCU tonight at First Market Stadium. The Spiders improve to 1-1 while the Rams fall to 1-1.
The Rams scored the first goal of the contest, at the 12:27 mark, when sophomore Melanie Simonich took a cross from teammate Solfried Andersen and knocked the ball into the left corner of the net.
The Spiders knotted the score at 1-1 twenty minutes later as senior Meghan Ogilvie (Springfield, Va.) tapped the ball into the empty net after a mishap from VCU goalkeeper Emily Niman.
The game-winner occured in the 59th minute after VCU goalkeeper Lauren Hardison, who entered the contest shortly into the second half, dropped the ball, off a header, directly in front of the goal and Sikes knocked it into the net.
Senior goalkeeper Kelly Kolker (McLean, Va.) made five saves in the net for Richmond. For VCU, Niman played 52:40 minutes with one save and Hardison saw 37:20 minutes of action and also made one save.
The Rams took 17 shots to the Spiders' nine and also held the advantage in corner kicks (7-6).
Richmond takes on the Clemson Tigers on Sunday, September 5, at 2:00 p.m. in Clemson, S.C.
