Leave it to the No. 21 UCF women’s soccer team to top its impressive Friday night 7-0 win by cruising to another dominant victory Sunday for its third-straight shutout. The Knights (13-4-0, 7-3-0) sent off their senior class with a 5-0 victory over Marshall (7-10-1, 2-6-1) while donning special pink jerseys in honor of breast cancer awareness month.<\/p>\n
To recap the weekend, the Knights netted 12 goals, outshot their opponents 44-6 and limited the Pirates and the Herd to two corners combined. In addition, senior Tishia Jewell tied the program’s career record for shots with 229.<\/p>\n
“I think now we have good momentum, and we just want to keep it going and show teams the best we can be,” Jewell said.<\/p>\n
Added defender Ashley Nicol: “From here on out, every day is senior day.”<\/p>\n
Forward Jennifer Martin gave the Knights a 1-0 lead in the 11th minute when Carleigh Williams sent a free kick into the box where Martin placed a header just below the crossbar for her second game-winner of the year.<\/p>\n
Forty-three seconds later, UCF capitalized off another header – this time from Nicol. Jewell played a ball to midfielder Andrea Rodrigues, who delivered a cross from the left side to Nicol for the score.<\/p>\n
Kayla Darden increased the lead to 3-0 just before halftime when Zoe Hayes sent her a pass from midfield, allowing Darden to send a low-driven ball to the far post past the keeper.<\/p>\n
Forward Kristina Trujic notched her second goal of the weekend in the 60th minute while inside the box thanks to a double-assist from Nicol and Jewell.<\/p>\n
Senior forward Nicolette Radovcic wrapped up the match nicely in the 83rd minute after classmate Bianca Joswiak sent her a ball, which she flicked around the defender inside the box and put it past the keeper for her 10th goal of the year.<\/p>\n
“The attack has been great — a lot of movement and creativity up top,” UCF head coach Amanda Cromwell said. “The seniors came up big in a lot of different ways with assists, playmaking and goals. Getting the shutout was huge, as well.”<\/p>\n
The four seniors left the game with five minutes remaining to rousing applause from the crowd and entered a receiving line of hugs on the sideline.<\/p>\n
UCF will play its final match of the regular season Friday at 5 p.m. at Southern Miss. The Knights closed their home schedule with a 9-2 record at the UCF Soccer Complex. The pink jerseys will be auctioned online via UCFAthletics.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leave it to the No. 21 UCF women’s soccer team to top its impressive Friday night 7-0 win by cruising to another dominant victory Sunday for its third-straight shutout. The Knights (13-4-0, 7-3-0) sent off their senior class with a 5-0 victory over Marshall (7-10-1, 2-6-1) while donning special pink jerseys in honor of breast cancer awareness month. To recap…","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":42211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[213,268,6177,466,6063,5507,8351,2713,3404,4321,4715,202],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-42210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-amanda-cromwell","tag-andrea-rodrigues","tag-ashley-nicol","tag-bianca-joswiak","tag-carleigh-williams","tag-jennifer-martin","tag-kayla-darden","tag-kristina-trujic","tag-nicolette-radovcic","tag-soccer","tag-tishia-jewell","tag-alumni"],"yoast_head":"\n