Gary Hardamon

SFA blanks NSU 5-0

10/9/2011 6:51:00 PM

Box Score NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Northwestern State Lady Demon soccer team dropped its second game in a row and third of four after a 5-0 whipping from Stephen F. Austin in Southland Conference action on Sunday.

It was the worst loss suffered by NSU since the 2005 season when Texas A&M beat the Lady Demons, 7-0, in the NCAA tournament.

“SFA is an extremely talented team, maybe one of the best I've seen in my years in the Southland Conference,” said head coach Jimmy Mitchell. “With that said, we made a lot of mistakes that we need to correct.”

The Lady Demons (7-7, 1-3 SLC) were dominated on the field and were outshot by a 28-7 margin in the second biggest offensive outburst from the Ladyjacks (9-2-1, 4-0 SLC) this season. Fourteen of SFA's 28 shots were on
goal.

The goals for the Ladyjacks started early with a goal from freshman forward Chelsea Raymond in the fifth minute put SFA up 1-0.

Senior forward Janae Lee added a goal in the 30th minute to push the Ladyjacks to 2-0 for her fourth goal of the season.  She also added an assist to Kylie Louw in the final goal of the game.

Laura Sadler, sister of former Lady Demon Sarah Sadler, scored her sixth goal of the season to put SFA up 3-0 on an unassisted goal.

Raymond then scored her second goal of the game and ninth of the season when she broke away in open field and scored in the 48th minute putting the Lady Demons down four.

“They are just a very dangerous team and score in any opportunity,” said Mitchell.

Northwestern State goalkeeper Jessica Danku was kept very busy with saving seven goals to push her conference leading saves up to 66 on the season, six shy of her career high and season total a year ago of 72.

Christian Marks came into the game in the 61st minute and collected one save and gave up on goal.

Northwestern State collected two shots on goal coming from two freshmen in Alex Petermann and Julia Ranalli.

The Lady Demons return home Friday night at 7 o'clock to continue conference play with Texas State who defeated Texas-San Antonio Sunday. 
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