2008 Woodie Awards
Opener 'ties' up Cougars
Zachary Groves
Issue date: 8/28/07 Section: Sports
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The Cougars picked up a 1-1 tie at home to open the 2007 season and the Lady Indians fly back to South Carolina winless with their second consecutive tie.
Senior midfielder Katie Yearian squeezed the Cougars' first goal of 2007 just more than four minutes into the first half to put them ahead 1-0.
Newberry forward Inga Woiwode's second goal of the season took more than 80 minutes after Yearian's goal, came late in the game with less than six minutes to play in the game. She tied the game at one apiece before going into the overtimes.
"I felt like our first 25 minutes we played nice soccer and then they turned up the heat on us," Bowers said. "We were lucky to hang on as long as we did for a while and finally we decided that we'd start playing again in the second half."
Newberry Head Coach Juan Pablo Favero said even with the late goal, the winning momentum could have gone either way.
"SIUE's got a great team, they're well-coached and played well," Favero said. "We could have scored, they could have scored. It was a great game."
The Lady Indians applied significant pressure to the young Cougar defense with 18 shots, five of them coming from Woiwode. Out of the 11 shots that went toward the goal, junior goalie Kaci Backs stopped 10 of them in her 90-plus minutes between the pipes.
Bowers said the defense would have its hands full with Woiwode, but ball possession concerned her the most.
"We still lack a little bit of movement up top which takes away our ability to keep the ball," Bowers said. "So they possess the ball better than us and we have a long ways to go before we can call ourselves a championship team."
SIUE just whiffed the new smell of the 2007 campaign with its contest against Newberry.
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