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Lady Yellowjackets Fall in Overtime to Northern Colorado (Oct. 26, 2003)
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BILLINGS, MT – A goal in the fifth minute of overtime was the downfall of the MSU Billings women’s soccer team Sunday as the Yellowjackets lost to Northern Colorado, 1-0.  Shannon Fox headed in Chelsey Ekenberg’s corner kick at 95:56 to win the game for the Bears (6-6-1), who are in their first year at Division I.  The Yellowjackets dropped their third straight game to fall to 6-9-1.

“The last two games we’ve allowed goals on corner kicks,” said Yellowjacket coach Don Trentham, “and we haven’t connected on our own corner kicks.  Corner kicks and restarts win games.  We’ve won some games this year on them, but today we just dropped the ball on the last one.”

Playing into a stiff northwest wind, the Yellowjackets withstood ten UNC shots in the first half to go into the break tied at 0-0.  The Bears out-shot the Jackets 10-0 in the opening half and 22-9 in the game.  With the wind in their favor in the second half, the Yellowjackets were able to mount an offensive and outshoot the Bears 9-6, but UNC goalkeeper Shanna Swinehart made three saves in the final 45 minutes.  Freshman Ally Taylor (Ojai, CA) had a breakaway with less than ten minutes remaining in regulation for the Yellowjackets’ best scoring opportunity of the game, but she missed just outside of the left post and the game went to the extra period.  

After switching directions for the overtime, the Bears dominated play, firing six shots against Yellowjacket goalkeeper Alyssa Wolfer (Fr., Longmont, CO).  Wolfer made three of her eight saves in the overtime period, but didn’t have a chance to stop the game winner.  The header from Fox came from the backside and caromed off the bottom of the crossbar and just across the plane of the goal.

“It was nice to see Alyssa play well today,” said Trentham.  “She hadn’t played for a while and we wanted to get her some time.  It’s a credit to her that she came in and played well.  She kept that game close.”

Last season the Yellowjackets lost to the Bears 3-0 in Greeley.  Despite playing much closer this year, MSU Billings is now 0-9 against Northern Colorado.  The Yellowjackets will try to stop their three-game losing streak on Wednesday when they host cross-town rival Rocky Mountain College.  MSUB beat RMC 3-0 at Rocky on September 20 to end another three-game losing streak.

“I hope our team isn’t satisfied with another moral victory just because we played better against them than we did last year,” said Trentham of the loss to UNC.  “We’ve played well in losses this year and sometime we need to step up and win.  We are pleased that we executed a game plan today and we did play well, but it’s still a loss.  I hope it will motivate us for Wednesday when we play Rocky, who will be gunning for us.”

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