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 Schreiner
Ends Season with 0-0 Tie
Photo: SU seniors Alcie Rivera (16), Stephanie Crane
(7) and Susan Burger (2) - with their families -
before their final match
Perhaps it was fitting that Schreiner would end its
season with a 0-0 tie with McMurry at Moutaineer
Field in Kerrville on Saturday. Neither team
was able to win a match in 2008, but the tie did
allow Schreiner to stay out of the ASC cellar, and
guaranteed that McMurry would be in the cellar.
The difference was that Schreiner recorded its
second shutout tie of the year where this match was
the only non-loss for McM.
It was also unfortunately ironic that this match,
like much of the season for SU (0-15-2, 0-11-2 in
ASC), again featured crippling injuries to SU
players. Both sophomore Danni Gomez (knee
injury) and freshman goalkeeper Stephanie Hoskins
(concussion) had to leave the field on a stretcher.
It's just the latest in an unusual run of injuries
that both Schreiner soccer teams have had to deal
with and overcome this fall.
The Mountaineers were not sharp early in the match
and the visitors controlled the action for the first
20 minutes. Fortunately, senior starting
goalkeeper Susan Burger and her defensive teammates
did not allow McMurry (0-15-1, 0-12-1 in ASC) to
score. From the midpoint on, Schreiner started
taking control. SU had more than double the
shots that McMurry had, and six times the shots on
goal.
Despite the attempts, SU also couldn't score.
Things looked even better with two minutes remaining
in regulation when McMurry's Julie Murphy picked up
her second yellow card and was ejected from the
match. This was also the final match for SU
seniors Stephanie Crane and Alcie Rivera and both
had chances to score the game-winner.
Unfortunately for Crane, her day ended seven minutes
into the first overtime period when she received a
highly-questionable red card and was also ejected.
This drew the ire of SU head coach Wayne Hinkley who
earned his only yellow card of the season disputing
the call.
In the second overtime period, Schreiner had four
tremendous opportunities to end the match but
narrowly missed on each occasion and the match ended
in a scoreless tie. |
