Ladies Earn 3-3 Draw At Huntingdon

Montgomery, Ala. – The Centenary women's soccer team earned a 3-3 tie against the Huntingdon College Hawks on Sunday afternoon in a non-conference match at the Sam Soccer Complex.

The Ladies (0-2-1) completed their weekend road trip which began with a 1-0 loss to the LaGrange College Panthers on Saturday in another non-conference contest in LaGrange, Ga. Huntingdon sits at 2-3-1 overall after Sunday's draw, which was just the second all-time between the two programs after first meeting in 2017.

The three goals scored on Sunday is the most by the Ladies since a 5-1 win over Austin College at home on Oct. 7, 2022. Centenary scored first as senior MF Aubrey Burkhardt (Bossier City, La.) scored in the fifth minute with double assists credited to junior D/MF Kylie Zeller (Denham Springs, La.) and senior D/MF Kaitlyn Bordelon (Shreveport, La.) for an early 1-0 lead.

The Hawks tied the match in the 26^th minute as Shaylin McFarland found the net with Laney Bishop assisting. Sophomore F/MF Lowrey Lain (Haughton, La.) then scored her first-career goal in the 35^th minute to give the Ladies a 2-1 lead with the assist going to freshman MF Sydney Hamm (Sterlington, La.). Huntingdon, though, quickly tied things up as Keabetsoe scored just over a minute later with the assist from Shea Eichelberger and the match went into halftime tied at 2-2.

McFarland scored for a second time to give the Hawks a 3-2 lead in the 60^th minute and then the Ladies tied it at 3-3 as senior MF/D Desiree Rodriguez (Forney, Texas) scored her first-career goal, an unassisted score, in the 74^th minute.

Sophomore GK/MF Zoe Keller (Waggaman, La.) made her first-career start in goal for the Ladies and went the distance, recording eight saves in her 90 minutes while Huntingdon GK Caroline Masker also played all 90 minutes and made four saves. Keller had a critical save late in the match to keep the score tied.

The Hawks finished with a 23-16 edge in shots and the Ladies took five corner kicks to Huntingdon's two. The Hawks where whistled for 13 fouls in the match while the Ladies picked up seven. Five yellow cards were issues – three to Centenary and two to Huntingdon.

The Ladies are back on the road for their next match as they head to Jackson, Miss. on Wednesday for a non-conference contest against the Millsaps College Majors set for 5 p.m.

Admission is FREE to all Ladies' home matches. Live stats and live video stream are available for all Centenary home contests.

See the complete Ladies' schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wsoc/2024-25/schedule

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