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Kenyon College Athletics

Emily Copeland
Sejin Kim
2
Winner DePauw DePauw (10-4-3, 4-0-2)
1
Kenyon Kenyon (1-10-2, 0-4-2)
Winner
DePauw DePauw
(10-4-3, 4-0-2)
2
Final
1
Kenyon Kenyon
(1-10-2, 0-4-2)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
DePauw DePauw 1 1 2
Kenyon Kenyon 1 0 1

Game Recap: Women's Soccer |

First-place Tigers find a way to edge Owls

GAMBIER, Ohio -- The Kenyon College women's soccer team is not going to be one of the four teams that makes the 2024 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Tournament. The Owls, however, having been playing like they want a say in who does make the tournament.

Saturday at Mavec Field, the Kenyon team (1-10-2, 0-4-2 NCAC) gave the first-place DePauw University Tigers (10-3-0, 4-0-2) all they could handle. Despite out-shooting the conference's top team, the Owls were dealt a 2-1 defeat.

The young Kenyon team, which was blown out of games early in the season, has now played six straight competitive contests, five of which resulted in a tie, or a one-goal loss.

DePauw, now undefeated in its last eight games, scored Saturday's first goal. Racing down the right side, Ashley Green took advantage of a Kenyon defender falling down. She got to the corner of the box and sent a cross to her left, where Molly Heller was left unmarked. Heller had a one-on-one with Kenyon goalkeeper Ariel Kite and beat her by slotting a shot just past Kite's left side.

That goal occurred in the game's 32nd minute and Kenyon had a quick response. The equalizer came less than seven minutes later, when first-year Emily Copeland, standing just outside of the box, unleashed a left-footed laser, placed perfectly into the upper left corner of the Tigers' goal. The score was her team-leading fourth goal of the season.

That shot sent the teams into halftime tied at 1-1 and the draw held up until the 63rd minute. At that point, the Owls ran into a bit of bad luck during a DePauw corner kick. When the ball was sent into play it descended near the left left post. Kite got to it and punched it into the air. The ball went straight up and came straight down. As it descended this time, a Kenyon defender tried to clear it, but the ball went off her head and over the goal line.

Unfortunately for Kenyon, which out-shot DePauw, 11-9, that own goal held up as the game winner. Copeland ended up taking four of those shots for Kenyon and her classmate, Zoe Lipp, took three.

Kite finished with six saves for the Owls, who have just one game left in their season. That contest is slated for next Saturday at Oberlin College.   
 
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