Army Outlasts Lafayette in Home Win

Wednesday, September 26

West Point

7 PM

Army West Point

6-1-5, 2-0-1PL

Lafayette

4-6-0, 1-2-0PL

Lafayette

ARMY

Army Outlasts Lafayette in Home Win

September 26, 2018 | Women's Soccer

Box Score

WEST POINT, N.Y. – After a one-hour-and-32-minute lightning delay, the Army West Point women's soccer team outlasted Lafayette for a 1-0 victory at Malek Stadium at Clinton Field Wednesday evening.

Sophomore Erynn Johns came up with the game-deciding play in the 21^st minute when she stole the ball off the foot of a Lafayette defender and dribbled around the Leopard player. The Austin, Texas, native then fired a shot from 18-yards out that crept past the outstretched hand of the goalkeeper and under the crossbar to give the Black Knights a 1-0 edge.

After controlling play for most of the first half, the home side saw Lafayette assert itself and possessed the ball through the first 20 minutes of the final period. That run came to an end with 35:02 remaining, however, when a lightning strike started a 1:32 delay. When the two sides returned to the field, the Cadets were able to regroup and prevent Lafayette from creating any more threatening scoring chances.

Johns led the Black Knights with a pair of shots on goal, while sophomore Morgan Walsh (four shots) and senior Sydney Witham (two shots) added multiple shots for the Black Knights. Sophomore goalkeeper Sydney Cassalia continues to be a wall for the Cadets with her eighth shutout in 12 games this season, needing to make five saves.

HOW IT HAPPENED
First Half

Johns stole the ball off the foot of a Lafayette defender in the 21^st minute before dribbling to her left and ripping a shot over the goalkeeper from the edge of the box.

Second Half

Lafayette came out of the break with an offensive mindset and outshot the Black Knights 8-6 in the final 45 minutes, but a one-hour-and-32-minute lightning delay allowed the home side to regroup and hold off the Leopards.

ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES

Army has one or fewer losses through its first 12 games of a season for the first time since 2002.
The Black Knights are undefeated through their first three Patriot League matches for the first time since 2011.
Johns scored her second goal of the season, tying rookies Trinity Garay and Kalie Rosenberger for the team lead.
Cassalia tallied her eighth shutout of the season, one shy of the most in the country behind Memphis' Elizabeth Moberg and Texas A&M's Costette Morche.
The Omaha, Neb., native now has 14 clean sheets in her career, tying Annah Castellini for fifth in program history.

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