Deadly Accurate: Hornets target Jaguars

SU football wasn’t the only team in Montgomery, Alabama this weekend.
The Lady Jags traveled to face conference foe Alabama State University in a soccer match this past Friday. The football program left the state of Alabama with a win.
However, things turned out much different for the soccer team. SU was trying to build off its first win of the season two weeks ago, but couldn’t quite seem to find that consistency to keep winning matches with a 0-6 spilt.
They faced one of the top teams in the conference in ASU, and it showed Friday night. The Hornets proved they were the better team as they amassed the Jaguars six to zero. ASU was deadly accurate from the field. They compiled eighteen shots, with eleven of those being boiling shots on goal. Out of the eleven, six shots found the back of the net.
The hornets had five different people to scored goals. ASU junior forward Aaliyah Lewis scored two goals alone. The SU defense had a lot of holes in and at times showed their youth to be problematic. Their offense was stifled for the duration of the match.
SU could only muster together eight shots. Five of those shots were shots on goal, however none of the five touched the back of the net. Only three of the eleven starters actually attempted a shot at scoring a goal, Jah-Nya Press, Jacquelin Almendarez, and Jessica Persico. There were some bright spots as well.
Coming off the bench sophomore defender Ohnieka Campbell came in and provided a spark. She had compiled three shots with all three of them being shots on goal, proving she can be the offensive threat the Jags have been missing.
The Lady Jaguars were accurate, as five of their eight shots were shots on goal. They were not accurate enough as they could not seem to find the niche to score a goal. ASU started the scoring off early, with their first goal coming nine minutes into the match.
The first goal scored was a mistake, as the ball deflected off of SU’s goalie Kendra Lewis from twenty yards out. Seven minutes later, they would score another goal in the sixteenth minute. The Jag’s defense would finish the first half without allowing another goal.
However, the second half was much different, as the scoring onslaught would continue. The Hornet’s third goal came early in the second half. It was a lack luster effort on defense as the ASU offense was able to dribble around an SU defender and find the back of the net in forty-sixth minute. The fourth goal came in the fifty-second minute off of a corner kick. The fifth goal was scored eleven minutes later on a breakaway in the sixty-third minute. The last and final goal was produced just five minutes later in the sixty-eighth minute, on a shot from the left corner.
SU gave up four goals in twenty minutes time. The defense certainly has to be better to open up scoring opportunites for an offense who is still trying to figure it out.
On Sunday, October 11, Southern fell suit to Alabama A&M 0-3 as they come back from the road and have to tackle another SWAC foe.
Southern (1-4, 1-11) have to come back to host Texas Southern at A.W. Mumford Stadium as they attempt to combat another conference win.