PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania women's soccer team opened the 2022 regular season, and the
Dr. Krissy Turner coaching era, against Temple on Friday night at Rhodes Field. The two teams went scoreless through the 90 minutes and played to a 0-0 draw. (A new NCAA rule has eliminated overtime from regular-season matches.)
Sophomore
Janae Stewart fired a match-high four shots to lead the Quakers, putting two on target. Junior goalkeeper
Laurence Gladu made a pair of saves, both of them coming in the second half.
Quaker Notemeal
*Tonight's 0-0 draw marks just the second time in program history Penn has opened with a 0-0 draw. The other came in 2006, also at Rhodes Field, against Rice (coincidentally, also nicknamed the Owls).
*Penn had 14 shots in the match, to just five by Temple, and held the edge in corner kicks, 11-4.
*Temple was called offsides seven times to zero by Penn.
*Penn had nine players combine for its 14 shots: Stewart (4),
Emily Pringle (2), and
Lucy Kellogg (2) all had multiple shots while
Miranda Farman,
Isobel Glass,
Ginger Fontenot,
Sara Readinger,
Ella Wright, and
Madison Liebman also recorded shots on the night.
*Freshmen
Mallory Lucas,
Clare Robke, and
Chloe Skipper all made their collegiate debuts.
How It Happened
The Red and Blue dominated the first half with all nine shots in the period. Fontenot got things started with a shot over the top of the net in just the second minute.
Penn kept the pressure on the Temple defense as it fired four shots in a six-minute span. Pringle and Readinger's shots were exactly three minutes apart.
On a play that saw Glass send a ball across the front of the box, Readinger collected the ricocheted ball and fired toward the bottom corner of the net, but it landed right into the collapsing Temple keeper for the save.
Stewart's two first-half shots happened in a 2:02 span. Her first shot was saved by a Temple defender and the second shot went over the top of the goal.
The Quakers recorded four more shots over the final 15 minutes of the first half. Less than three minutes after entering the match, Wright's bid for a birthday goal was denied by the Temple keeper who made five saves in the first half.
The Penn offense did a great job at staying on attack, while the defense did a great job at getting the Quakers out on counters.
In 90 minutes of play, Penn's defense limited Temple to a total of five shots, two of which were on target. All five of the Owls' shots came in the second half.
Gladu made two saves on the night, both in the second half. Her best came after a failed clear by the Quakers, as the Owls fired a shot that she was able to tip just over the bar to keep the match scoreless.
UP NEXT
The Quakers will continue their season-opening, two-match homestand on Sunday with a 6 p.m. match against Maryland at Rhodes Field.
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