UW-Parkside Tops Women's Soccer 2-0 - LEWIS OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE

Oct. 11, 2009

ROMEOVILLE, Ill. - The defending conference champion UW-Parkside Rangers held only a slight 6-5 edge in shots on goal, but they made two of them count, topping the Lewis women's soccer team 2-0 on Sunday afternoon.

The Rangers scored 3:01 into the game. Shannon Becker fired a cross from the top right of the 18-yard box to the left post. Kristen Benson was there on the other end to put it in the back of the net.

UW-Parkside scored their second goal of the game at 18:21. Becker dropped a corner kick into a crowded box enabling Kahlil Cheng to score.

Both teams possessed the ball almost equally. Each squad earned seven corner kicks and the Rangers held only a 15-13 edge in total shots.

Senior Amy Foran (Batavia, Ill/Batavia) led Lewis with three shots, two on goal.

"We learned a lesson today that if you take a punch from a team like Parkside you need to be able to deliver it right back," head coach Chris Koenig said. "The second goal really hurt us. If it's a 1-0 score it's a different contest with the chances we had in the second half."

UW-Parkside improves to 7-3-2 and 6-3-1 in Great Lakes Valley Conference play. Lewis falls to 3-9-2 and 2-8-1 in the GLVC. The Flyers travel to Illinois-Springfield on Sunday at noon.

A Catholic university sponsored by the De La Salle Christian Brothers, Lewis offers nearly 80 undergraduate majors and programs of study, accelerated degree completion options for working adults, various aviation programs and 22 graduate programs in nine fields. The 10th largest private, not-for-profit university in Illinois is being honored for the sixth consecutive year by The Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report. For more information please visit www.lewisu.edu. ##LEWIS##