Soccer Team Tops Tulsa 1-0 Sunday On The Road

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Women's Soccer

vs UTSA

Nov 9

1 p.m.

Lakewood Ranch, Fla.

Oct. 28, 2007

TULSA, Okla. -- The Rice soccer team used an early score from Korey Taylor, and goalkeeper Meghan Erkel with the Owl defenders made the margin stand up on the way to a 1-0 Conference USA road win over the Tulsa Golden Hurricane Sunday afternoon in Oklahoma. With the victory Rice, 10-5-2 on the season and 4-2-1 in C-USA, clinched a spot in the league's postseason tournament that begins Nov. 7 in El Paso.

Fighting a streak of more than 200 consecutive minutes since their last goal, the Owls came out and grabbed the lead early against Tulsa. In the sixth minute of the game, senior Beth Martin served a direct free kick from the left wing toward crowd in front of the Tulsa goal. The Golden Hurricane keeper came out to make a grab at the incoming ball but it deflected away near the mouth of the goal.

Taylor opportunistically charged in on the bounding ball and needed just one touch touch to blast a shot to the back of the net. The goal was Taylor's fourth of the year and would be all the margin the Blue & Gray would need. Rice out-shot Tulsa 17-5 for the game, including 8-3 for shots on-goal with a 7-2 advantage in corner kicks.

The Rice defense continued its steady play to preserve the team's sixth shutout of the season. The defenders, led by starters Martin, Lindsay Jaggers, Kellen Schugart and Katelyn Ostendorf have not allowed more than five shots in any of the team's last three games. Meghan Erkel, the Owls' freshman keeper, made three saves in notching the complete game shutout.

Tulsa fell to 3-13-2 overall and 1-6-1 against the league. After four-straight games on the road the Owls return home to host their final two games of the regular season on Nov. 2 and 4. Rice hosts Colorado College on Friday at 7 pm and UTEP on Sunday at 1 pm. The Rice seniors will be honored before the start of Sunday's contest.

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