Box Score

MCMINNVILLE, Ore -- Nineteenth-ranked Linfield downed Whitman 1-0 this afternoon in women's soccer, improving its overall record to 13-1-1 and its conference mark to 9-1-1. The Missionaries fall to 8-8 on the year and 4-8 in the Northwest Conference.
 
The match, played at Linfield, saw the Wildcats fire off seventeen shots compared to Whitman's two. Three of them were on-goal. Whitman did not have an attempt on-goal.
 
The winning, and only goal of the match, came at 1:20 into the second half when Emily Fellows was in traffic in front of the goal and booted a ball that eluded everyone. It was Fellows' conference-leading seventeenth goal of the season.
 
The win avenged an earlier season loss at Whitman (2-0) -- Linfield's only loss of the season. For Whitman, it was the Missionaries third loss in-a-row and the third straight match without a goal. The Whits two shots came in the second half, one from Hallie Swan and the other from Kelsey Peck.
 
Emily Davis went the distance between the pipes for the Missionaries, making two saves. Kallina Haase got the win for the Wildcats.
 
Next Up: the Missionaries travel to Pacific University tomorrow for a 12 pm match . . . live stats will be available at http://live.goboxers.com/wso/xlive.htm
 
Contact:
Andrew Holt
Whitman Sports Information Director
holtac@whitman.edu
509.527.5902