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Bruce
Lori Stephenson
0
North Dakota State NDSU (0-6)
2
Winner Drake DU (3-2)
North Dakota State NDSU
(0-6)
0
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North Dakota State NDSU 0 0 0
Drake DU 1 1 2

Game Recap: Women's Soccer | | Drake Athletic Communications

Women’s Soccer Defeats North Dakota State, 2-0

Drake stays at home as it welcomes Wisconsin on Sept. 7 to Cownie for a 7 p.m. match.

DES MOINES, Iowa – Freshman Olivia Bruce (Lakeville, Minn.) scored her first career goal and sophomore Shelley Lyjak (Bartlett, Ill.) added her first goal of the season for the Drake women's soccer team in a 2-0 win over North Dakota State on Sunday afternoon at the Cownie Soccer Complex.
 
Drake (3-2), who had several early shot attempts just miss, got on the scoreboard late in the first half, courtesy of Bruce. In the 40th minute, fellow freshman Hannah Bormann (Amana, Iowa) gathered a goal kick by North Dakota State (0-6) and sent a pass to Bruce, who beat the goalkeeper, Julia Edelstein, and blasted the ball in the bottom right corner for her first career goal (40:35). It is the first career assist for Bormann.
 
"We were focused on earning a shutout today," said head coach Lindsey Horner. "NDSU has size and height and tested us in the air, and I was pleased with our response. We are really happy for Hannah and Olivia to connect on the first goal to give us a halftime lead. The beginning of the second half was too much of a back-and-forth game for our liking. We need to be able to put these games away, but we left ourselves open on the counter."
 
In the 68th minute (68:27), Lyjak added the insurance goal, as senior Hannah Wilder (Wheatfield, Ind.) collected the ball deep in the Bison and flicked a backwards pass to a sprinting Lyjak who shot it in the back of the net.
 
Senior goalkeeper Haley Morris (Clive, Iowa) played the whole match and finished with four saves. Horner went deep into her bench as 22 Bulldogs played in the home win. It is the second shutout this season for Drake who as a team finished with 24 shots to 9 for NDSU.
 
"There were a lot of positives, including Shelley and Wilder's combination goal, Annie (Schmitz) put in a great performance, and a lot of our roster earned some game day experience," Horner said. "Overall we are pleased to do well at home and are looking to recover and get ready to host Wisconsin."
 
Drake welcomes Wisconsin on Sept. 7 to Cownie for a 7 p.m. match. The Badgers and the Bulldogs battled to a scoreless draw in Madison, Wis. last season. Wisconsin (5-1) has a win this year over then No. 3 Virginia. 
 
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