Double Jeopardy

’Birds lose double overtime battle

By RICH JOHNSON
UNIVERSITY JOURNAL

Eastern Washington’s KDee Anderson scored her second goal of the game 3:18 into the second overtime period as the Eagles held off the SUU soccer squad 3-2 Tuesday afternoon.
The game-winning goal was scored on a header after a center pass from Sarah Windham.
“It was a good battle,” SUU soccer coach Brian Stock said. “It’s just unfortunate. We were winning that game twice and we allowed them back in. In the end, they caught their break first in overtime.”
SUU (0-5) came within six minutes of its first win of the season after Annie Payne scored an unassisted goal from 25 yards in the 85th minute.
“Annie Payne scored a brilliant goal,” Stock said. “but we let them back in and they got the equalizer.”
Eastern Washington responded 34 seconds later, as Anderson took a pass from Emily Squires and scored straight away from 20 yards to tie the score.
It was the second time of the game that the Eagles had scored within a minute of an SUU score. The T-Birds got on the board first in the 30th minute on a goal by junior Amber Tubbs.
“We’ve really been stressing hard that five minutes after every event like that is just the most susceptible time,” Stock said. “We want our kids to play conservative: get the ball out, let’s push forward, mark them hard, win the ball back and win the game.
“We let them play with it to much at the top of our eighteen and they tucked one away.”
Stock was pleased with his team’s effort, especially in the second half.
“We played a lot more composed,” he said. “We really stressed at halftime taking care of the small details of the game. But we made those adjustments and the second half was much cleaner.”
The ‘Birds kept pace with the Eagles offensively, only being outshot 16-13. SUU also had a chance to win the game with 15 seconds to play, but just missed a shot.:18