Eagles Late Pressure Not Enough on Sunday

Sunday, September 23

Statesboro

1:00 PM

Georgia Southern University

3-6-0, 1-1-0

Appalachian State

5-4-1, 2-0-0

Appalachian State

Georgia Southern

Photo by: AJ Henderson - Georgia Southern Athletics

9/23/2018 3:59:00 PM | Women's Soccer

Box Score

Appalachian State defeats the Eagles 2-1 on Sunday

By: Aaron Socha

STATESBORO, Ga. – Sunday afternoon the Eagles and Mountaineers faced off in the second weekend of conference play. The Mountaineers defeated the Eagles 2-1 on Sunday to fall to 3-6-0 on the season and 1-1-0 in conference play. The Blue and White will travel to Monroe, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama next weekend for the first conference road trip of the season.

The afternoon started with the Eagles and Mountaineers trading blows, before Kat Greer scored her second goal of the season. Greer took a pass from Jessica Easley and headed it inside the left post. Less than six minutes later Tyler Gordon chipped the Appalachian State keeper, after Ashton Adams played a beautiful ball over the top, to level the scoring at one a side.

The beginning of the second half was back and forth, before Kat Greer tallied her second goal of the afternoon for the Mountaineers. Greer took a long service from Ava Dawson and shot inside the left post to give Appalachian State a 2-1 lead. Junique Rodriguez had a chance late in the second half, heading a Tyler Gordon corner kick towards the far post. The Appalachian State defender headed the ball off the line, ending the Eagles scoring threat.

The Blue and White will now prepare for their first conference road trip of the season. The Eagles will travel to Monroe, Louisiana to face off against the Warhawks on Friday. The Blue and White will then travel to Mobile, Alabama to take on the defending conference champions, South Alabama on Sunday.

MATCH FACTS
Appalachian State (5-4-1, 2-0-0) - 2
Georgia Southern (3-6-0, 1-1-0) – 1

SCORING
18' - APP - Kat Greer (2) Jessica Easley
24' - GS - Tyler Gordon (1) Ashton Adams
59' - APP - Kat Greer (3) Ava Dawson

NOTES
- Appalachian State outshot the Eagles 13-9 in the match, despite the Eagles peppering the Mountaineer keeper late
- Eagles were unable to register a save in the match this afternoon
- Tyler Gordon lead all Eagles with four shots and one goal in the match
- Kat Greer scored both the Mountaineer goals, collecting her second and third goals of the year
- Nicole Aussin played her first minutes of the season this afternoon, after returning from injury

WHAT HEAD COACH BRIAN DUNLEAVY SAID
"App is very good in the air, and they can kick the ball far, they fight for everything they scored off two free kicks from distance. Flick on headers and second balls. We prepared all week for that so it's disappointing that we didn't execute. Going forward we couldn't connect the final pass to break their back line when we did we scored, apart from a good few attacking buildups on our part that was an ugly game of soccer."

NEXT UP
The Eagles will travel to Monroe, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama for their first conference road trip of the year. The Blue and White will take on ULM at 4:00 PM and South Alabama, Sunday at 1:00 PM.