MARQUETTE, Mich. - The Northern Michigan (NMU) women's soccer team (7-3-3, 4-3-2 GLIAC) pulled away in the second half for a dominant 4-0 decision over the visiting Roosevelt Lakers (1-9-3, 1-7-1 GLIAC) on Sunday.
Addison Frantti opened up the scoring for the Wildcats just under 15 minutes into the game.Â
The floodgates would open late in the second half as Sole Corley headed in a Gretchen Ellis corner kick to double up the score late in the 77th minute, and Alyse Daavettila made it 3-0 less than a minute later. Corley was then able to tack on one more in the 83rd for the brace, securing the 4-0 victory for the 'Cats.
NMU outshot the Lakers by a significant margin of 36-7, including a 14-2 edge in shots on target. The Wildcats also earned 8 corner kick opportunities to RU's 2 and possessed the ball 62% of the match.
How it happened
In the 14th minute, the Wildcats were pressing a counter attack as Daavettila pushed the ball up the left side to Madison Bilbia who then centered the ball over to Frantti who fired the ball into the upper left corner of the net to open up the scoring. NMU continued to press the attack, but the Laker defense was able to keep the score at 1-0 going into the halftime break.
Both teams continued to battle in the second half as the Wildcats kept Roosevelt on their heels, but late in the match, NMU was able to break through as a corner kick from Ellis from the left side nearly 78 minutes into the contest found its way to a waiting Corley who headed it in just overtop of Laker goaltender Kaylee Sarnicola. Then, less than a minute later, the Wildcats capitalized on a turnover near midfield, pushing the ball ahead on the counter as Daavettila beat the last defender on pushed the ball just past the goaltender to extend the lead. Corley would then tack on one more from just outside the box off of a free kick in the 83rd to earn her first multi-goal game of her career and put the exclamation point on the game.
Carly Sides earned the win in goal, saving both shots she faced for the clean sheet.Â
Up next
The Wildcats will now turn their attention to rivals Michigan Tech when they host the Huskies on Sunday, Oct. 18 with kick off scheduled for 12 p.m.
