Box Score Kearney, Neb. – The Nebraska-Kearney women's soccer team scored a season-high three goals to hold off Colorado-Colorado Springs, 3-2, on a chilly Thursday night at Ron & Carol Cope Stadium at Foster Field.

UNK improves to 5-11-1 (3-9-1 RMAC) while the Mountain Lions are now 8-8-1 (4-8-1 RMAC) on the year.

Earlier this year in Colorado, UCCS scored two second half goals to post a 2-1 win over UNK. When these two teams met last fall in Kearney, the Lopers posted a 6-2 victory with the six goals being a school-record.

That offensive display continued this time around as Iceland native Agnes Arnadottir recorded her fifth goal of the season just four minutes into the contest.  A transfer from Division I Rhode Island, she got past the Loper defense and scored from five yards out on the left wing.

About 20 minutes later, senior defender Talisha Krason (Kearney) took a direct kick after a UCCS foul. Her kick bounced off several players, including two Lopers, before the ball found junior Merydeth Cummings (Papillion) in front of the goal.

She managed to get the loose ball past UCCS keeper Jessica Taylor to knot the game at one. This marked Cummings' second goal of the year.

Early in the second half, sophomore defender Sarah Talcott (Denver, Colo.) stole the ball from a Springs player in Loper territory. She moved the ball up the field and then found sophomore Raliegh Mercer (Centennial, Colo.) at midfield.
Mercer, in turn, sent a center pass to a streaking Ashtin Pawloski (Hastings), who poked the ball past Taylor for her third goal of the year.

UNK kept up the pressure and eventually Mercer took back-to-back corner kicks at the 60 minute mark. On her second one, she hit Sophomore defender Kayla Roth (Kearney) right in front of the net. Roth promptly hit the ball into the back of the net to record her second collegiate goal.

The win wouldn't come easy, however, as UCCS applied a lot of pressure in the last 25 minutes. Freshman Hannah Rather, off a throw in, cut the lead to one when she scored her third goal of the year at 72:37.

UCCS took three more shots but junior keeper Marissa Niday (Fremont) stopped two of them with the the other going wide. Finally, Mercer had a chance to score a goal but her shot at 81:21 hit the crossbar.

Kearney closes out the year Sunday afternoon when Adams State visits.