Bobcats blank Bulldogs

Georgia College & State University’s soccer team hosted and defeated the Lady Bulldogs of South Carolina State University 3-0 Tuesday bringing the Bobcats back up to .500 (2-2).

“It feels good to win convincingly like that,” Head Coach Robert Parr said. “Especially against a Division one team.”

The Bulldogs have had their own problems of late and are now winless in their first four games of the season.

The first half was dominated by the Bobcat’s offense that scored two goals on nine shots on net. Meanwhile South Carolina mustered only one shot on Bobcat goalkeeper Michelle Parr in the first half, and a grand total of only two by the end of the night.

The Bobcat’s first goal, scored only seven minutes into the match, was a rebound goal by Tami Pissott. Lindsey Stiver and Emily Norris recorded assists on the goal. Only 1 minute and 22 seconds later, Natalie Thomas scored the team’s second goal on an impressive left legged cross-field shot from 40 yards out. Michelle Parr was credited with the assist.

Thomas, a junior midfielder who transferred from Michigan said she does not know “how the hell (the shot) went in.”

“I have a hard shot from center,” Thomas said when asked if she would ever consider playing forward.

Thomas feels like a forward position would take that hard shot of hers up and over the net more often than into it.

The only goal of the second half was scored off the right foot of Sarah Plymale on a textbook cross pass from Hayley Ferrell. The pass set Plymale up with the point-blank shot from 15 feet out.

The second half also included much more physical play on both sides, but with GC&SU taking the majority of the whistles. GC&SU committed 12 fouls in the second half (only five in the first half); meanwhile, South Carolina was called for only seven fouls the entire game.

Shirt pulling by both teams became an issue late in the second half and although no cards were pulled, referees spoke to both Norris and South Carolina’s Elizabeth Govrik about the physical contact.

“They give it to you, and you give it right back,” Plymale, who was involved in some shirt pulling with Govrik earlier in the match, said. “It’s just soccer. It happens.”

“Soccer is more physical then you think. You play through the fouls,” Coach Parr said. “(The girls) didn’t get out of control.”

The Bobcats will be visiting South Carolina to play USC Aiken in the team’s first Peachbelt Conference game of the season on Saturday, Sept. 17.

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