Sept. 26, 1999
Columbia, Mo. - The Missouri Women?s Soccer Team recorded its second shutout of the season Sunday with a 6-0 blanking of Loyola-Chicago at Walton Stadium. Five different players scored for MU which is now 7-2 on the season. Loyola-Chicago fell to 2-7 with the defeat. Senior goalkeepers Jackie Adamec and Liz LaTour combined for the shutout win in goal. The Tigers amassed a school and Walton Stadium record 38 shots in the match, while only allowing nine shots to their opponent.
Missouri standout forward Nikki Thole reached double-digits in goals for the second straight season scoring two goals Sunday for a season total of eleven. Juniors Amy Timmermann and Becky Paulsen netted their first goals of the season and freshmen Suzanne Probst and Laura Smith knocked in their first career goals respectively.
Probst got Missouri on the board first when she settled a clear touch by the Loyola defense and sent a left-foot shot into the left corner of the net. Her first goal as a Tiger put MU on top, 1-0 at 14:04. Thole extended her consecutive matches with a point streak to nine matches at 34:43 when she scored off a left-side cross from Jennifer Kram. The goal was Thole?s tenth of the season, the assist was the first of the year for Kram.
Thole struck again, less than a minute into the second half, with her eleventh goal at 45:52 on passes from Erin Grimsley and Timmermann. Then it was Timmermann who found the back of the net. With the ball loose in front of the net, shots by Grimsley and Sarah Sallee were deflected by the Loyola keeper. After the Sallee shot was deflected, Timmermann beat her defender to the ball, shooting the ball past the diving keeper. Missouri led, 4-0.
The Tigers continued to pressure the Loyola defense and it paid off with two goals late in the match. After weaving her way through the defense, Grimsley touched a perfect pass to Smith who one-timed a shot for the score and a 5-0 lead with eleven minutes remaining. Smith?s first goal at Missouri came off Grimsley?s second assist of the match and team-leading seventh of the season.
Paulsen finished the Tiger scoring at 84:22 with a goal off a deflected shot by the Loyola keeper, Paulsen?s first of the season and second of her career.
Missouri travels to Texas next weekend for the begining of the Big 12 Conference season and matches at Texas Tech on Friday at 4pm and Baylor on Sunday at 1pm.
