BECKLEY, W.Va. – The Concord University women's soccer team scored three times in the first 26 minutes of the game as it won its fifth consecutive game with a 3-1 victory over Frostburg State at Cline Stadium in Mountain East Conference action Thursday afternoon.
The Mountain Lions improve to 10-1 on the season and 6-1 in the MEC. Frostburg State drops to 4-7-1 and 4-5 in the league.
Freshman forward
Rachel Bell got CU on the board in the sixth minute. Junior midfielder
Courtney Wallace played a pass down the left flank and into the corner where junior midfielder
Mira Kontio crossed the ball into the box and found Bell from 10 yards away where she was able to slot the shot above the goalkeeper.
Kontio was able to get her own goal in the 21
st minute. After an initial corner kick was cleared out of danger by the Bobcats, freshman midfielder
Michelle Brogden retrieved the clearance along the sideline and played the ball back into the penalty where Kontio was able to head her fourth goal of the season into the net.
Bell and sophomore forward
Leah Foster assisted on the final first-half goal for CU as Wallace found the back of the net. The duo passed the ball back-and-forth on the right edge of the penalty area before Wallace came down the middle of the box and slotted a shot in the lower right corner of the net.
Off a free kick that Concord was unable to clear away, Frostburg State scored two minutes before halftime, but it was the only shot the Bobcats had on target in the game.
The Mountain Lions outshot FSU 27-5 in the contest with 19 of CU's shots being on goal. Foster had six shots on goal while junior midfielder
Yasmin Mosby added another five.
Frostburg State's Emily Faust made 16 saves in the game to keep the score at 3-1.
Concord hosts West Virginia Wesleyan at Anderson Field 1:00 p.m. Sunday in a clash of the top two teams in the MEC South.
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