Soccer: Friendlies Recaps
Fall Sports are back! After a long summer we finally have competitive games to talk about again as the Ducks soccer team kicked off their season this past week with 4 non-conference games.
Game 1 Weber State
The first game of the season went about as well as you would hope for. The Ducks didn’t concede a goal and scored 4 themselves to open up the season with a decisive victory.
Game 2 Portland
Next up were the Pilots of Portland who proved to be stingier defensively then Weber State as the game would end in a Nil-Nil draw. The contest was quite competitive with final shots being 9-8 in favor of Portland and final shots on goal being 3-2 in favor of Oregon.
Game 3 Sacramento State
After 2 games at home the Ducks flew to the island of O’ahu in Hawaii for the OUTRIGGER Soccer Kickoff. First up was a game against Sacramento State. The Ducks dominated the balance of play with 20 shots to Sac State’s 9 and 9 on target to Sac State’s 5. But in the 64th minute the Ducks conceded a goal and could never get the equalizer as they fell 1-0.
Game 4 Hawaii
On Sunday the Ducks were in desperate need of a bounce back performance and the team delivered. The Ducks struck early as Sydney Chura found the back of the net in the fifth minute to give the Ducks a very early lead.
Shortly after the 22nd minute hydration break Carly Comack, the native Hawaiian, scored to give the Ducks a 2-0 lead.
The best way to defend a lead is to make sure the other team never even gets the ball and that is exactly what the Ducks would do the rest of the first half and for the entirety of the second half as Hawaii couldn’t generate any quality looks. In the 87th minute the Ducks would put an exclamation mark on the game as Cailin Bloom would pick up her first collegiate goal to make it 3-0 Ducks.
In addition to the lop sided goal margin Oregon completely dominated the shot clock with 15 to Hawaii’s 8 and 9 on target to Hawaii’s 1.
Oregon has only allowed 1 goal through their first 4 matches, it is the best defensive start to a season since 2014.
The Ducks will look to continue playing tough defense on Thursday when they take on New Mexico at Pape Field.
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