Highlanders Run Win Streak To Three With 5-1 Victory Over Fresno State

Friday, September 21

Riverside, CA

UC Riverside

Fresno State

Highlanders Run Win Streak To Three With 5-1 Victory Over Fresno State

9/21/2007 4:37:00 PM | Women's Soccer

UC RIverside 5, Fresno State 1 - Box Score

Riverside—For the third consecutive time, the UC Riverside (4-2-0) women’s soccer team won convincingly over their visiting opponent. This time the Highlanders defeated the Fresno State Bulldogs (3-3-0) by the score of 5-1.

Just seven minutes into the match Jill Del Rosario led Tessa Lannala with a pass that Lannala made a sliding kick over the charging keeper, scoring the first goal of the match.

Lennala assisted on a goal in the 15th minute as she took a corner kick from the left side of the goal. She lofted the ball perfectly to the far post where the 5-10 Ashley Parks put a perfect header on for a two-goal lead.

The third Highlander goal was set up by Pat Brady who charged through the Bulldogs’ defense before passing to her left to the sprinting Lannala who scored her second goal of the match on a strike from the top of the 18-yard box. Lennala’s two goals were good for her career high and with her assist she also set a new career high with five points in a match.

With less than three minutes left in the first half, Fresno State tallied their first and last goal of the match. In a battle for the ball at midfield the Bulldogs’ Amanda Reyes drove the ball to the far right corner of UCR’s territory where Ali Sill tracked it down and delivered a cross to Andrea Salvador who beat Deanna Borgelt for the goal.

Natalie Ducatenzeiler scored her first goal (49:09) in front of the home crowd on a feed from Brady 25 yards out, over the outstrectched arms of the keeper. The assist was Brady’s second of the match and the goal was Ducatenzeiler’s third of the seaon, tying her for the team-lead with Lennala.

The last goal of the match came off the foot of redshirt freshman Nicole Yumori, who took the corner kick from Lauren Leonard and placed a perfect shot into the left side of the goal.
The five goals in a match were the most the Highlanders have scored since a similar 5-1 score in a victory over Columbia on 9/11/05

UC Riverside returns to action at the UCR Soccer Stadium Sunday as they face #25 San Diego at 1:00 pm. The Toreros will be the second ranked team the Highlanders will have faced in the young season, the first being #22 Oregon.