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2004 Record: 3-6-0 MIAC, 6-9-1 Overall
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| Last Week's Results: St. Olaf 3, Saint Mary's 2 / Details Saint Mary's 1, St. Benedict 0 / Details |
| Coming Up: Wed., Oct. 27: Saint Mary's at St. Kate's, 3:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 30: Saint Mary's at Hamline, 1 p.m. |
| This and That: The Cardinals managed just one shot vs. St. Benedict last Saturday — and scored the game's lone goal on it. … SMU's win over CSB snapped a nine-game winless streak vs. the Blazers (0-8-1) in which CSB outscored the Cardinals 33-2. … Amy Cory (Crystal Lake, Ill.) scored for the third straight game vs. St. Benedict, netting her team-leading 14th goal of the season. … Cory’s 14 goals are the most since Julie Giebe scored 17 in both 1995 and 1996. … In the nine games in which SMU has scored, Cory has netted at least one goal in eight of them. … SMU's win vs. St. Benedict snapped its three-game losing streak. … The Cardinals and their opponents have each scored 27 goals. … Sixteen of SMU's goals have come in the first half, while 16 of the Cardinals' opponents have come in the second half. … Last Saturday's game was the final home game ever for SMU seniors Erica Ruther (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.), Stefanie Lamusga (Prior Lake, Minn.), Kelli Mooney (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Kim Rhomberg (St. Louis, Mo.). |
WINONA, Minn. — To Saint Mary’s University women’s soccer coach Tony Guinn, it was a perfect way to send off his seniors — and set the 2004 season in the history books.
In the Cardinals’ final home game at Ochrymowycz Field last Saturday, SMU did what it hadn't done in 10 straight years — defeat two-time defending Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion St. Benedict.
Amy Cory (Crystal Lake, Ill.) scored with less than eight minutes remaining in regulation off a corner kick from teammate Abbey D'Acquisto (Racine, Wis.) as SMU beat St. Benedict 1-0 — snapping a nine-game winless streak against the Blazers, and giving the Cardinals their first win vs. CSB since a 2-0 triumph on Oct. 29, 1994.
And they did it without three of their regular starters.
"The whole team played outstanding — I'm sure it's one of the biggest wins in a long time for this program," said Guinn, whose team had been outscored by the Blazers 33-2 during that nine-game drought. "We did it without people like Courtney Gibson (Woodbury, Minn.) and Lisa Tlougan (Rochester, Minn.) in our lineup (due to injuries), and that’s what impressed me the most.
"Hopefully it was a nice sendoff to our seniors, too."
Despite a scoreless first half, the Cardinals seemed to be facing an uphill climb against the Blazers — who held a 7-0 advantage in shots on goal through the game's first 45 minutes. CSB also had seven first-half corner kicks, while the Cardinals were held to none.
But with 7 minutes, 45 seconds left in regulation, that all changed, as D’Acquisto sent the Cardinals’ first corner kick right to Cory, who fired and found the back of the net — not only scoring the game's only goal, but also marking the Cardinals’ one and only shot on net for the entire game.
SMU goalie Jennifer Johnson (Racine, Wis.) stopped all 13 shots she faced to earn her first shutout as a Cardinal.
"I can't tell you how great this win is," said Guinn, whose team closes out its season with a pair of road games next week — Wednesday at St. Catherine and Saturday at Hamline. "We've been in a lot of close games, a lot of games in which we played well enough to win but didn't. To get a win like this, against a team as talented as (St. Benedict), it's just awesome — for our seniors, for our team, and for our program."