PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers women's soccer (1-1-0) dropped a close 1-0 match with Hofstra (1-1-0) on a late, 88th-minute goal by the Pride on Sunday evening at Yurcak Field.
SCORING SUMMARY
- Hofstra's Olivia Pearse found space outside the 18 off a feed from Wiktoria Fronc and took a long shot from 25 yards out to the top left of the net, breaking the deadlock for the late, 1-0 lead.
MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
- Rutgers redshirt goalkeeper Olivia Bodmer made a diving stop in the 27th minute to keep the game scoreless going into half.
- Junior forward Gia Girman had an excellent chance for an RU lead, but her shot was headed away by a Hofstra defender behind the goalkeeper for a team save.
- Junior forward Riley Tiernan came inches away from giving Rutgers a lead in the 70th minute, when her shot from a tough angle cleared the keeper, but ricocheted off the crossbar and back into play.
- Junior back Emily Mason kept Hofstra off the board in the 80th minute when a redirected shot took a bounce past Bodmer, but Mason was there to clear the ball off the line.
QUOTABLE
"Soccer is a cruel game sometimes," said head coach
Mike O'Neill. "They sat in defensively, so for us, we just needed a bit more patience and execution in the final third. We have to understand that regardless of how the other team plays, it's about how we play, our standard, and applying our style."
STAT SHEET
- Rutgers led Hofstra, 17-8, in shot attempts, but with just a 6-5 edge in shots on goal.
- RU's shots on net came from Allison Lowrey (2), Becci Fluchel, Sara Brocious, Girman, and Ashley Baran.
- Fluchel, Allison Lynch, Kassidy Banks, and Brocious all played the full 90 minutes on the pitch.
- Hofstra goalkeeper Mackenzie Sullivan made five saves in the shutout.
KNIGHT NOTES
- The loss snapped Rutgers' 33-match winning streak in games played in August, with the last loss occurring in 2012. It also snapped an 11-match winning streak in non-conference regular season games dating back to 2021.
- Hofstra picks up its first win against Rutgers in its fifth try, moving to 1-4 all-time in the series.
LOOK AHEAD
The Scarlet Knights hit the road for the first time in 2023 at NC State, a '22 NCAA Tournament qualifier, on Thurs., Aug. 24 at 7 p.m. in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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