Ladyjacks Wrap Up Season in Southland Conference Tournament Quarterfinals

Wednesday, November 6

Conway, Ark.

5:00 p.m.

Stephen F. Austin

8-11-0, 5-6-0

#1 Lamar

14-6-0, 10-1-0

Stephen F. Austin

Lamar University

Ladyjacks Wrap Up Season in Southland Conference Tournament Quarterfinals

11/6/2019 7:46:00 PM | Women's Soccer

Box Score

Termini finishes with one goal and one assist in Ladyjacks' 2019 finale

By: SFA Athletics

CONWAY, Ark. - Hoping to generate the biggest Southland Conference Tournament upset it could, the SFA soccer team instead ran into a buzzsaw in the form of top-seeded Lamar's Esther Okoronkwo who scored four goals to lead the Cardinals to a 6-2 win over the Ladyjacks in the quarterfinal round of the league tournament Wednesday afternoon at the Bill Stephens Track and Soccer Complex.

FIRST HALF
• SFA suffered a dose of bad luck 15 minutes into the game when an own-goal put the Ladyjacks in a 1-0 hole. A little over one minute later, Lamar doubles its lead when Esther Okoronkwo punched a hard shot past Madeline Talbot to make matters 2-0.
• The top-seeded Cardinals continued their scoring onslaught in the 30th minute when Okoronkwo pumped in her second of the game.
• Down 3-0, SFA's deficit grew to four when Okornokwo completed her first-half hat trick with her third goal of the evening in the 33rd minute.
• The Ladyjacks generated just two shots through the first half while Lamar amassed 15 tries.

SECOND HALF
• SFA's comeback bid started early in the final frame when All-Southland Conference First Team midfielder Katelyn Termini busted up the Cardinals' shutout bid. Termini snuck a shot past Lamar keeper Erin Branch in the 56th minute to trim the top seed's lead to 4-1.
• Just 11 seconds later, however, Lamar regained its four-goal lead. Okoronkwo scored for a fourth time to hike the Cardinals' lead to 5-1.
• Anna Loftus closed out the scoring for Lamar with a goal in the 77th minute that made matters 6-1.
• Termini put the wraps on her three-point outing by assisting on Mattie Musser's goal in the 81st minute that accounted for the final score.

KEY PERFORMERS/STATISTICS OF NOTE
• Talbot made six saves while Allyson Halliday came in for the second half of action and made a pair of stops.
• Termini came up with five of the Ladyjacks' nine shots for the game and had three of the on-target tries for SFA.
• The Ladyjacks were outshot 20-9 for the game.

COMING UP NEXT
• SFA wraps up its 2019 campaign with an 8-11 overall record and turns its attention to the 2020 season. Lamar moves on to the Southland Conference Tournament semifinals where it will take on either Incarnate Word or Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.

-SFA-