A Season of Hope: Southern University soccer team concludes early

Southern University’s woman’s soccer team came into the season as every team does, with extreme confidence.
But with one of the roughest non-conference scheduled games, there will be only one lesson learned in Southwestern Athletic Conference match ups, that winning the game would not be easy.
Southern crashed in all seven of their non-conference games during the beginning of the season and only had one goal against South Carolina State in the first game of the season, scored by senior forward, Jami Blackston, which etched her mark as a leader of the team.
The rest of the non-conference games went as followed.
With sophomore goalkeeper, Kendra Lewis asserting her new role as the goalie, came into the hardened SWAC match-ups and found it difficult to protect the goal.
Lewis extended her player position as she played in every game this season and withheld 112 saves total throughout the entire season, compared to 65 saves by the opposition.
Southern ended September by capturing their first win against Alcorn State 2-1 after eight catastrophic losses.
Lewis didn’t have to capture a save due to the nonexistent shots during that period as well as Southern capturing an early two-minute goal and the first goal for redshirt junior, Victoria Stahl.
Stahl then assisted sophomore mid-fielder, Jessica Perisco for another goal before Alcorn could sweep from behind and score their lone goal before the clasp of the game.
For those to say October is a hard month with homecoming festivities and other business affairs meant more for the soccer team because they were on the road defending the gold and blue although against the conference, Southern fell.
There were six more games Southern fell which took them out of the running for returning to the conference tournament from November 6-8 in Huntsville, Alabama.
Their next win after an overall of 1-14 was against Grambling State University on October 25 in a late score in the second period by Blackston.
Lewis once again made it another affair to only save two goals in that match-up.
Unfortunately it was the previous game before Southern fell to Jackson State to conclude the season.
Blackston has achieved the high of the leader board for Southern with two goals, 2 shots, 83 shot percentage and 62 percent shot on goal percentage.