Murray State women’s soccer played to a 0-0 draw against Arkansas State on Sunday at the A-State Soccer Park in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Despite creating several scoring opportunities, the Racers were unable to break through, with five of their 11 shots on target.
This draw marks only the second in the history of the series between the two teams, the first occurring back in 2016.
In a closely contested first half, both Murray State and Arkansas State attempted six shots, with each team placing two on goal. By the end of the match, the Red Wolves had outshot the Racers 15-11, though Murray State had more shots on target, edging Arkansas State 5-3.
Breece Bass, Tori Schrimpf, Megan Wilson, and Mackenzie Tucker each took two shots, while five different Racers managed to put a shot on goal. On the defensive side, Morgan Bodker, Kate Stordy, and Hannah Carter all played the full 90 minutes for the fourth consecutive match this season.
Griselda Revolorio recorded her first clean sheet of the 2024 season and the seventh of her career, contributing to the Racers’ strong defensive showing.
Murray State now looks ahead to a stretch of home games, starting with a matchup against Austin Peay on Thursday, August 29 at 3 p.m. CT at Cutchin Field in Murray, Kentucky.
Head Coach Matt Lodge on the Team’s Performance:
“I thought it was an ugly game from start to finish. Obviously, we’re tired from Thursday, which is part of it—again, we’re preparing for Missouri Valley Conference play, and this is part of match fitness and preparation for that. [I’m] glad we fought from start to finish. We got a lot of people a lot of minutes. We’ve got a tough group, and they deserve the clean sheet. I thought we were going to nick it there at the end, but soccer sometimes is a cruel sport. In terms of what that does in the league, that would essentially give us a point on the road—a big point on the road. So, I think we’ve got to take the positives; first clean sheet of the season [and] hopefully we can keep going from that. But we’ve also got to take our lessons, we’ve got to manage the game a little better. I think we got drawn into their game a little too much, maybe we need to get it down and play a little more. 0-0 is never an amazing result, but we also didn’t lose. We’ll take it in our stride and we’ll prepare for a home weekend next weekend.”
Coach Lodge on Upcoming Matchups:
“I think we’ve got to make sure our home field is a fortress. We have to get ready, we need to pick up points at home [and] grab a few on the road, but I think we’ve got to protect our home field and it starts next week. Obviously, we’ve had one home game with Xavier and we took the lead [then] lost it, so we have to learn from that—how are we going to protect our field come Thursday against a good Austin Peay team and Sunday against a good UT Martin team. We’re getting ready for conference, [and] if we can take care of our home games, pick some up on the road then we’ll be just fine.”
