Box score
ANDERSON, S.C. - Wingate junior midfielder Izabella Miranda
scored the game's lone goal with less than nine minutes remaining
as the Anderson women's soccer team wrapped up the regular season
with a 1-0 setback to the Bulldogs in South Atlantic Conference
action Saturday afternoon at Trojan Stadium.
Anderson (9-9, 5-4 SAC) enters next week's 2011 Food Lion South
Atlantic Conference Tournament as the fourth seed and will host
fifth-seeded Tusculum on Tuesday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Trojan
Stadium.
Wingate (13-3, 8-1 SAC) had already clinched the second seed in
the tournament and will host No. 7 seeded Catawba. The Trojans
outlasted Tusculum, 1-0, in a hotly-contested home match two weeks
ago when sophomore Allie Waters knocked home a penalty kick in the
108th minute of play.
The Trojans entered Saturday's Homecoming contest having won
five of their last six conference matches, while Wingate was riding
a two-game win streak and had won 11 of its last 12 outings.
AU threatened early when Waters fired a shot in the third
minute, but it sailed high of the net and the Trojans were unable
to record another attempt until her attempt at the 26:03 mark was
saved by WU net-minder Miriam Boucher.
The Bulldogs posted 11 shots to AU's pair of attempts in the
opening half, but the Trojan defense, which set a school record
with its seventh shutout, held the 'Dogs at bay.
But Miranda netted her second goal of the season in the 82nd
minute, providing all the scoring on the afternoon.
Wingate out-shot AU, 21-4, and held an 8-0 advantage in corner
kicks. AU goalkeeper Kaitlyn Neipp recorded six saves on the day,
while Boucher notched two.