In 2010, the University of Dayton released a video with the concept of “flying right” both in the classroom and on the field. Former Flyer and current Bobcat junior forward Maggie Murnane would have made the video proud Friday.
Murnane scored her second goal of the season just eight minutes into the match off an assist from Ohio senior midfielder Cat Rogers. The lone goal was all the Ohio soccer team needed for its fifth win in a row, a 1-0 defeat of Youngstown State.
She collected the ball with her back to the goal and hit a left footed shot, one of her seven shots in the game.
“I’ve been a little frustrated in how I should be a finisher in these past recent games and I’ve been trying to figure out how I can be dangerous, what works doesn’t work…definitely getting a feel for going to the net and trying to get shots off so its been nice,” Murnane said.
Strong defense and keeping the ball in the attacking third of the pitch has been Ohio’s formula in this five-game winning streak.
The Bobcats outshot the Penguins 22-14 and despite the poor finishing with the amount of shots Ohio coach Stacy Strauss could still pick out positives.
“We didn’t have those twenty two enough shots on frame so that was disappointing, that’s certainly something that needs to improve,” Strauss said. “But I thought that their willingness to go 1v1 and create opportunities either for themselves or for each other was better today and at times probably the best this season thus far.”
Murnane said the chances today were proof of what the team’s attacking style would be going into Mid-American-Conference play.
“I thought that we definitely were trying to go forward and put goals in the net,” Murnane said. “Stacy said before that we wanted to show going into conference play that we can score goals, so all I was trying to do was get us chances and try to get it in.
mk277809@ohiou.edu
