Women's Soccer Improves To 2-0 With 4-2 Victory Over Northern Arizona

Sunday, August 24

Las Vegas, NV

10:30 am

UC Riverside

2-0-0

Northern Arizona

0-2-0

Team	1	2	Final F
Northern Arizona	1	1	2
UC Riverside	2	2	4

Photo by: Gabriel L. Acosta

Women's Soccer Improves To 2-0 With 4-2 Victory Over Northern Arizona

8/24/2014 1:12:00 PM | Women's Soccer

Box Score

Las Vegas, NV—The UC Riverside Women's Soccer Team improved to 2-0 on the season with a 4-2 victory over Northern Arizona at the UNLV Rebel Classic Sunday morning (Box Score).

The Highlanders limited the Lumberjacks to just seven shots on the day, but the first came off the foot of Haley Wingender, and found its way past the UCR defenses to put NAU up 1-0 with just 4:25 gone in the match.

UC Riverside countered with eight shots over the next 16 minutes, and tied the score in the 23rd minute of play when Tyler Cunningham netted her first score of the season.

Less than four minutes later it was a 2-1 Highlanders' lead as NAU keeper Meghan Dickmann saved a Cunningham shot, but Alexa Bustamante was their to tap in the rebound with 19:20 go in the first.

UCR took that one-goal lead into the locker room at halftime, and just 4:22 into the second, Amanda Apelian recorded the first goal of her collegiate career on an assist by Blanca Barrio putting the Highlanders up by two.

Ten minutes later, Wingender's shot from 12 years out reduced the lead to one, and gave the junior her second goal of the day.

With less than nine minutes remaining, Sammy Arellano tacked on an insurance goal with her second score of the year, giving the Highlanders their final 4-2 margin of victory.

UC Riverside returns to the golden state this weekend for a road match at San Diego State on Friday, August 29 at 4 pm PT.

MATCH NOTES
UNDEFEATED
The Highlanders are 2-0 on the season for the sixth time in their-14-year history. Only two times in program history, has the team won three matches in a row to begin a campaign—in 2008, when the Highlanders opened the year 3-0, and in 2004, when they won nine straight to open the year.

FOUR SCORES AND SIX YEARS AGO
The Highlanders scored four goals in a match on August 24, 2014 beating Northern Arizona by a score of 4-2. The last time UC Riverside scored four or more goals in a match was in a 4-0 win over San Jose State on September 7, 2008 (box score/recap). The last time UCR scored more than four goals in a match was in a 5-0 season-opening win over Southern Utah on August 22, 2008 (box score/recap).

SPREADING THE WEALTH
Six different Highlanders have dented the back of the net so far in 2014. Last season, 12 players found their way into the scoring column throughout the year.