GAMBIER, Ohio – The Kenyon College women's soccer team scored a goal in each half of Tuesday's game at Mavec Field to ring up a 2-1 win over Oberlin College and remain in contention for one of four postseason spots in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Tournament.

The victory evened out Kenyon's overall record at 6-6-2 and pushed its NCAC mark to 4-1-1, temporarily putting the Ladies in a first-place tie with Denison University. Both Kenyon and Denison have 13 points in the standings and are one-point ahead of DePauw University, which plays at Wittenberg University later tonight and then hosts Denison on Saturday.

On the opposite side of the field, Oberlin absorbed its fourth straight loss and fell to 5-7-1 overall and 0-4-1 within conference play.

Although it was just a one-goal difference, Kenyon was clearly the better side Tuesday. The Ladies held possession for the majority of the game and wound up out-shooting the Yeowomen, 24-7.

Kenyon's first goal came in the game's 39th minute. Playing the ball outside of the box, on the left side of the Oberlin zone, freshman Gwyneth Phillips booted an arcing cross that found the foot of Brianna Maggard. On the fly, Maggard redirected the ball into the left side of the Yeowomen's net. It was Maggard's third goal of the season and her third in the Ladies' last three games.  The assist was Phillips' first of the year.

Another first for Kenyon came in the 68th minute. That's when freshman Morgan Engmann scored the game-winner, as well as the first goal of her collegiate career. Senior Maggie Smith pushed a through ball up the middle, where Engmann caught up with it. She charged forward and faced only Emma Gordon, the Oberlin goalkeeper. Engmann drew closer to Gordon and then used her left foot to slip her shot into the right side of the goal.

Now facing a two-goal deficit, Oberlin did not fade away. The Yeowomen put together three straight scoring chances late in the game, but converted only one of them. First, in the 84th minute, a lazy header from Gwennie Gardiner was saved by Kenyon keeper Jillian Countey. In the next minute, a strike from Gardiner hit the right post. A little more than 20 seconds after that, an Oberlin crossing pass was trapped by a Kenyon defender. When the ball squirted loose, Taylor French was there to punt it over the goal line for the Yeowomen's first and only goal.

Countey needed to make just two saves to seal the Kenyon win, while her counterpart, Gordon, was forced to make seven saves.

The Ladies have three regular-season conference games left on the schedule. The first of those three will be Saturday at home against Allegheny College (4-8-1, 1-3-0 NCAC).