Maryland women’s soccer falls to Ava Cook and Michigan State
(Photo Courtesy of Maryland Athletics.)
The Spartans put the force per unit area on the Terps defense in the early. It culminated with a shot from Michigan State forrard Ava Melt with but Maryland goalie Madeline Smith in her fashion. The shot went across the goal and only wide.
As Ava Cook put on a powerful operation and nearly singlehandedly outplayed the Terps, the Spartans marched to a ii-0 victory, paving their manner to a tournament bid and digging Maryland in a deeper 2022 pigsty.
The early on control would somewhen pay off for the Spartans, still, as Zivana Labovic
sent a cantankerous into the box and Cook took the entry pass and scored to put the beginning points on the board.
The Terps got their start real chance in the 28th minute with a Mikayla Dayes shot that was just pushed outside the near mail. The Spartans responded with Ava Melt's 2d goal of the game equally she capitalized off of a missed articulate opportunity by the Terps.
Every bit the kickoff half began to wind downwardly and the rain began to cascade, the Spartans and Ava Melt began to pile on the shots with multiple decent chances to brand information technology 3-0 before the end of the half. Still, the Terps defense was able to agree the Spartan pb at two goals going into the one-half.
The offset one-half was the Ava Cook prove, every bit the Spartans frontwards had both Michigan Land goals on 5 shots, matching the number of shots that the Terps had every bit a team at the midway bespeak.
The second half started slowly merely picked upward with another shut risk for Ava Cook that went off the batten.
The Terps connected to bend but not quite break in the 2d half as Cook got her head on 2 sequent corners in the 63rd minute.
The game slowed down considerably from there every bit Maryland'southward defense locked in and prevented any other serious chances for the residual of the game. The offense however still could not get anything going as Spartan goalie Lauren Kozal was not seriously challenged the unabridged game.
The game would terminate in that location with a final score of 2-0 Spartans with Michigan Country almost sure to earn their commencement Large 10 tournament bid in 10 years.
The Terps dropped to 4-8-v overall and 0-6-2 in the Large 10, Maryland had another expert defensive performance, especially in the second half. They were just unable to comprise Ava Cook early as she matched the Terps in overall shots on target with four apiece.
"She's a special player, yous know, very athletic, very smart," head coach Ray Leone said, "yous got to be accounting [for] her all the time."
Terps second half goalie Liz Brucia played extremely well and was central to keeping the Spartans off the lath in the second half.
"She was fantastic and she'll definitely commencement the final game and play the whole game against Michigan. She was actually really good tonight." Leone said.
The Terps will play their final regular season game Sunday in Ann Arbor confronting the Michigan Wolverines.
Source: http://wmucsports.net/michigan-state-over-maryland-womens-soccer/
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