Sept. 21, 2008

Soccer Claims 4-0 Victory over Howard For Second Straight Win

    Washington, D.C. -- The YSU soccer team scored four goals against Howard to pick up its second shutout in a row. Carrie Wack scored first for the Guins while Jordan Gapczynski's two goals late in the second half added to the lead. Jodi Bowlen's goal in the final three minutes of play gave YSU the 4-0 win and helped the team improve to an overall record of 2-6.

    Wack's third goal of the season came at 32:55 into the game to put YSU up 1-0. Wack managed to get by two defenders and beat Howard's goalkeeper to put her team on the board before halftime.

    YSU tied Howard with six shot in the first half, but the Guins offense took over to outshoot the Bison 9-4 in the second half.

The final 13 minutes allowed Gapczynski and Bowlen to capitalize on three key scoring opportunities.

    Gapczynski fired her free kick from 25 yards out at 77:04 to put YSU up 2-0. Just six minutes later Alex Lee and Bowlen helped set up Gapzynski's second goal of the afternoon from five yards away from net.

    Lee made her second assist of the game with a pass to Jodi Bowlen from 20 yards out which proved to be the final goal in the Penguins second win of the season.

    Mariah Snyder stopped all seven of the Howard's scoring attempts and now ties Bridget Frank for the second most shutouts in school history with two for the season.

    The back-to-back wins for YSU marks the first time the program has won consecutive games since October 1999.
    The Penguins will open Horizon League play on Friday at home at 4 p.m. against Detroit.