Soccer
team happy with split on road
Jon
Cook/On-line Forty-Niner
By
Daniel Frias
On-line Forty-Niner
The
Long Beach State women's soccer team was
on the road this past weekend. Their first
stop was University of Pacific where the
49ers lost a close match 2-1. The team then
came back to Long Beach where it defeated
Cal State Northridge 2-1.
"Overall
we played well," 49ers' head coach
Peter Reynuad said. "Road games are
always tough. You have to win at least one
road game and we did so I'm happy."
Allison
Wiegand used her great speed and technique
to score both goals for the 49ers (6-7-0,
2-2-0 Big West) in the first half of Sunday's
game against Northridge (3-7-3, 1-3-0 Big
West) to give her team a 2-0 lead. Her first
goal came in the 37th minute when Wiegand
took an outside pass from teammate Amber
Olivera and put it in the goal. Wiegand
notched her second goal seven minutes later.
After her shot was saved by CSUN's goalie.
The clear out went to Rachel Henderson who
passed the ball back to Wiegand and she
made sure the ball went in this time.
"I
saw that that their fullbacks weren't fast,"
Reynaud said. "I put Allison at the
forward because she has good speed and I
knew she could create opportunities for
us in the middle with her speed."
CSUN
managed to cut the lead in half during the
second half when the Matadors scored a goal
at the 60-minute mark. But that was as close
as the Matadors would come. The 49ers defense
headed by Lauren Doffing held Northridge
off for the remainder of the game. This
was not an easy victory for the 49ers as
CSUN played its usual "very physical,
very aggressive" game said Reynaud.
"Every
time we play Northridge we have this problem,"
Reynaud said. "They like to come from
behind and take you down. But we just got
up, didn't say a word and just played our
game."
"They
were dirty," Abie Curry said. "They
always foul a lot. We just played more aggressive
and played our game."
The
49ers didn't fair so well on Friday against
UOP (3-8-1, 2-1-0 Big West) losing a heartbreaker
2-1. Carmen Padilla put UOP up 1-0 in the
19th minute. Kristina Fetter doubled the
score for the Tigers at the beginning of
the second sending her shot past the 49ers'
goalie. The Beach played well in this game
but missed several opportunities that would
give the team the victory. Many of the 49ers'
shots hit the post and the crossbar several
times.
"We
should have won that game," Reynaud
said. "We outplayed them. We played
hard. We were a little unlucky. We missed
a lot of good opportunities. We could have
easily scored more goals, we had opportunities
we just couldn't finish."
The
49ers lone goal came in the 70th minute
courtesy of the Tigers' defense. Kristin
Travis took the ball down on the wing for
the 49ers and sent a cross to an open Curry.
Tiger's defender Katie McCurdy tried to
intercept the pass and head it out, but
she put it right into Pacific's own goal.
The
49ers will play at the George Allen Field
this weekend when they host Utah State Friday
and Idaho Sunday.
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