October 19, 2007

Saint Martin’s Surprises Lady Jackets
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LACEY, Wash. – Saint Martin’s scored a pair of first half goals and held on to stun Montana State Billings 2-0 on Friday in GNAC women’s soccer.  The Saints entered the game winless in the conference. 

The Yellowjackets fell to 8-7-1 overall and 4-5-1 in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.  The Saints won for the first time since Sept. 1 to improve to 1-9-0 in the GNAC and 2-14-0 overall.

“Give credit to Saint Martin’s,” said Yellowjacket head coach Don Trentham.  “They came out to play at the beginning of game and capitalized on their chances.  It’s hard to recover from being down 2-0 at halftime.”

The Saints got first half goals from Ashley Biral and Kayci Donatelli.  Jordan Fenwick (Boise, Idaho) gave up the two first half goals and made two saves before being replaced by Kaily Hoffman (Fort Collins, Colo.) in the second half.  Hoffman had one save. 

The Yellowjackets had several scoring chances in the second half, but hit the crossbar three times and the post once.  MSUB out-shot the Saints 13-2 in the second half and 18-10 in the game, but the Jackets failed to convert any of their eight shots on goal.  Saints keeper Breanna Klasen made eight saves in the game, five coming in the second half.

The Yellowjacket wrap up the road trip on Sunday at Western Oregon.  MSUB defeated the Wolves 3-0 on Sept. 13 in Billings.  Western had won three of their last four games entering Friday’s conference match up with 11th-ranked Seattle University, which they lost 1-0 in overtime.  The Jackets will host Northwest Nazarene on Oct. 25 and 2nd-ranked Seattle Pacific on Oct. 27 to close out the home schedule.  They finish the season Nov. 3 at Seattle.