The Queens College women's soccer team earned a positive
result with a 1-0 blanking of Concordia College in a soccer game
played in Flushing, New York on Thursday afternoon. After the
out-of-conference victory, the Knights improved to 5-2-2 while the
Clippers fell to 0-8.
Queens dominated possession early on as the Knights kept the
ball in the Concordia end of the pitch for the first nine plus
minutes of action. They had a great scoring opportunity
in the tenth minute when Kristina Ikonomou (Commack,
N.Y./Commack) hit the crossbar with a blast from inside the 18-yard
box that hit the crossbar.
Ten minutes later, the Knights nearly got on the scoreboard as
Ikonomou found Lorena Russi (Rego Park, N.Y./Townsend Harris) at
the top of the 18-year blast, and Russi let go a flick that went
just wide of the goal to keep the game scoreless. In the
25th minute, Russi tried a soft chip from the top of the
box that was just over the crossbar once again.
Russi, who was around the ball throughout the game, set-up the
eventual winning goal as she stole the ball deep in the
Clippers' end of the pitch, played it through to Janine
Guerra (Whitestone, N.Y./St. Francis Prep), who crossed it through
the box to Alexandra Troiano (Malverne, N.Y./Valley Stream North)
who put the ball inside the near post for the goal and a 1-0 lead
for Queens.
The 1-0 score would never be challenged until the
50th minute, where Concordia played a through ball by
the middle of the Knights defense, which forced Queens'
goalie Allison Breakey (Frankfort, Ill./Lincoln Way East) to come
off her line and deflect the ball to safety. Breakey made a
pair of saves to record the clean sheet as Queens held on for the
1-0 win.
In the victory, the Knights outshot the Clippers 20-2 and took
14 corner kicks to their one. Russi collected a game-high six
shots while Ikonomou tallied four and Troiano three.
The women's soccer team returns to action on Saturday,
September 29, as they host the Mercy Mavericks in an East Coast
Conference Game from Knights Field in Flushing. The game time
is scheduled for 12:00 PM.
