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Nebraska-Kearney UNK (5-8-0, 3-3-0 MIAA)
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Winner Lindenwood LWU (6-5-2, 3-2-1 MIAA)
Nebraska-Kearney UNK
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Lindenwood LWU
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Nebraska-Kearney UNK 0 1 1
Lindenwood LWU 2 0 2

Game Recap: Women's Soccer |

Lindenwood Makes Shots Count to Edge UNK, 2-1

Kearney, Neb. – The Nebraska-Kearney women's soccer team out shot Lindenwood by an 18-3 margin but fell to the Lions, 2-1, Friday night in St. Charles, Mo.

Lindenwood (6-5-2, 3-2-1) improves to 4-4 at home while the Lopers (5-8, 3-0) fall to 2-3 on the road.

UNK managed six shots in the first half and 12 over the final 45 minutes. All three of the Lions shots came in the opening stanza with two unfortunately finding back of the next. Junior Sammi Gregory tallied her second goal of the year six minutes in with freshman Emily Jowers scoring 24 minutes later. That was her first goal of 2018 and, like Gregory, it came from within the box.

Also having a 7-4 advantage in corners, the Lopers cut the deficit to one when freshman Bridget Barker (Ballwin, Mo.) recorded her first collegiate goal 16 minutes into the second half. She took a pass from junior Maddie Love (Norfolk Catholic) and banged one in from 21 yards out.

However, sophomore keeper Megan Swanson finished with seven saves and stopped two UNK shots down the stretch. Kearney also saw a header by Love sail wide at 88:20 with a shot by junior Catilin Rerucha (Omaha Skutt) suffering the same fate two minutes earlier.

Junior Megan Merkel (Millard West) finished with a game-high five shots with Love adding four. Both had two shots on goal to lead UNK in that area. Next, Rerucha had three shots and Barker two. Finally, junior keeper Emily Thuss (Raymore, Mo.) worked a scoreless second half.

UNK heads to defending national champion Central Missouri (10-2-1, 4-1-1) on Sunday afternoon.
 
 
 
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