The Lipscomb (7-2-4) women’s soccer team took a 2-1 victory over the USC Upstate Spartans (2-8-1) on Saturday night at the rain-soaked Lipscomb Soccer Complex.
The Lady Bisons applied immense pressure from both offensive and defensive ends from the beginning, allowing No. 5 senior Alex Hickey to score a goal in the first half, assisted by No. 16 sophomore Natalie DuBoise. No. 15 sophomore Emily Rogers scored her first goal of the year.
“We played really well in the first half, and I think we started the second half well, and once Upstate scored the goal, I felt we lost a little bit of our composure,” said head coach Kevin O’Brien.
The Spartans later replied with a goal from No. 6 senior Hailey Venable, after a drop-in intensity from the Bisons. O’Brien said the girls regained their composure and finished the match strongly in a tightly contested second half.
“The game got a lot tighter and tenser, we were making mistakes that we were not making at the start and we’ve got to be able to manage the game better as a team,” O’Brien said. “As the game gets tighter, we can’t afford to panic and get frantic like we did.”
Up next the Lady Bisons will travel to Jacksonville to take on the Dolphins on Friday, Oct. 9 at 6 p.m.
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