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Game Recap: Women's Soccer |

Alabama State falls in double overtime to Winthrop

ROCK HILL, S.C. | Alabama State battled back from a two-goal deficit to tie the match Friday night with Winthrop, before the Eagles were able to score in the second overtime for the 3-2 season-opening win at Eagle Field.

HOW IT HAPPENED
  • Winthrop scored first on Friday night off the foot of Katy Feskorn in the 32nd minute for the 1-0 lead, taking that lead into intermission.
  • The Eagles added to the lead in the 61st minute when Emma Smith pushed the ball past Sheila Sanchez (Castellon, Spain) for the 2-0 lead.
  • Alabama State got on the board in the 73rd minute when Isabella Beortegui (Santa Ana, Calif.) scored her first goal of the regular season to trim the lead to 2-1.
  • The Lady Hornets tied the match up when Camila Jimenez (Weston, Fla.) scored her first career goal in the 77th minute.
  • Jessica Gengler scored the game-winner in the 102nd minute just under the crossbar.
GAME NOTES
  • Madison Chambers (Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) recorded her first career assist in the match, while Zelia Griffith (Livonia, Mich.) also picked up her first career assist on the second goal of the match.
  • Beortegui added to her total of the year, although her first two goals do not count toward the season statistics. She scored a pair of goals in the exhibition contest against Troy.
  • Alabama State started four newcomers in the exhibition contest against Troy and then again against Winthrop, including MF Katherine Nedved (Chandler, Ariz.), MF Jimenez, D Madison Tyler (Maricopa, Ariz.), GK Sanchez.
  • The Lady Hornets also started F Kassandra Schoen (St. Michael's, Minn.), F McKenna Wiscombe (Orem, Utah), F Beortegui, MF Grace Norbury (Melbourne, Australia), D Kristen Thomas (Watkinsville, Ga.), D Kayleigh O'Neal (San Diego, Calif.), and D Paige Patton (Kent, Wash.).
QUOTES (head coach Jodie Smith)
"Tough way to lose, but we are able to take away a lot of positives tom the game. We showed a lot of character and mental toughness to get back level after being down a pair of goals. It was nice see Bella get back to form, and the two freshman who got their first career points - Camila a goal and Madison an assist. We just to be ready to go on Sunday against Presbyterian."
 
UP NEXT
Alabama State returns to action on Sunday afternoon, concluding the road trip against Presbyterian in Clinton, S.C. with kick set for 2 pm (ET).

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