Women's Soccer | 8/24/2023 6:10:00 PM
Box Score Chanute, KS - Neosho Women's Soccer opened up the season at home in a fixture against Northeastern Oklahoma A&M. After a good pre season Neosho was looking for a positive start to the 2023 schedule. The Panther ladies started the game very lackluster, the team lacked tempo and tenacity off the ball and it felt like a very flat encounter for an opening season game where it was expected both teams would come out of the blocks fast.
Your Panthers did open the scoring 15 minutes in after
Aoi Kanno played a lovely ball in behind the high back line of NEO A&M, for Liadian Kavananagh to run onto to calmly slot past the goalkeeper. The game became very stretched for the rest of the half, it turned into a game of basketball when more cool heads were required to put a foot on ball and take the sting out of the opposition. Neosho went into half time with a 1-0 lead.
Neosho started the second half much brighter and with more tenacity and bite out of possession, and showed more calmness in possession and made better decisions around the 18 yard box. Lauren O'toole did great work near the edge of the 18 yard box to find
Olivia Gibson by the edge of box who finished well past the Neo A&M goalkeeper to double the advantage for Neosho.
Liadian Kavanagh added a third for Neosho and her second for the day with another cooly slotted finish, Before Jersualem Rodriguez curled in a fourth for the team from outside of the area to find the top corner with a great goal. The second half was a much more positive performance and the team will be looking to take that into their next performance where they face Hawkeye on Saturday August 25
th at 9:00am.
