CLEVELAND, Miss. – The unbeaten Lee women's soccer team (11-0-3, 9-0-1) will face one of their toughest tests of the season on Sunday afternoon when they continue their Mississippi road trip in Clinton against third-place Mississippi College (9-2-1, 8-2).
The Lady Flames coasted to a 5-2 victory at Delta State on Friday afternoon while Mississippi College was enjoying a 13-0 "laughter" against Shorter University. It will be senior afternoon for the Lady Choctaws and also their final home game of the year. The battle is slated for 2 p.m.
Lee had five different goal scorers in the win. Alaysia Nye tallied her team-leading 10th goal of the season at the 13:34 mark in the first half. The goal was assisted by Ashley Eulo. The Lady Flames' final goal of the first stanza came just over two minutes later (15:56) when Nye dished off an assist to Juliana Lopes. It was Lopes' first goal of the season and Nye's second assist.
Delta State sliced the lead to 2-1 after the beginning of the second half when Avery Allison posted an unassisted goal at the 57:11 mark. The Lady Flames dominated the rest of the contest. Grace Berry connected on her fifth goal of the season in the 74th minute and Lopes was right there to pick up her third assist. Delta State tallied its final goal at the 75:34 mark by Chloe Jackson.
The scoring continued in the 82nd (82:56) minute when Ruth Edrington blasted her shot into the back of the net on the second assist of the afternoon from Eulo. It was score number two for Edrington and Eulo's seventh assist. Maddie Davis joined Edrington in coming off the bench and putting points on the board for Lee. It was Davis' first score of the season and was unassisted.
The Delta shot total showed the Lady Flames with 10 shots overall and eight on target. The Lee defense allowed the Lady Statesmen only four shots and two were on goal. The Lady Flames were called for 11 fouls and the Lady Statesmen five. Lee had just two corner kicks the entire afternoon and Delta three.
Coach Chris Hennessey's thoughts:
"I was really pleased with the effort this afternoon. It was a total body of work and our entire team saw action. We got the win here and now we must move on for a tough test on Sunday. The main thing is to move onto Clinton and get some rest on Saturday.
"It is always a tough game with Mississippi College. They have beaten us a couple of times down here. We have to be really focused but I think our girls will be ready and I'm sure you can say the same about them."
