THE RUNDOWN
Score: ULM 3, Troy 2
Teams: ULM (7-8-2, 4-4-1 Sun Belt)
Troy (7-8-3, 3-4-2 Sun Belt)
Location: ULM Soccer Complex, Monroe, La.
Monroe, La. – The ULM Soccer team saved their best offensive outburst at home for its last home game as the Warhawks used a second half goal from Kylie Kukowski to help defeat Troy 3-2 on Friday afternoon.
THE TURNING POINT
In the 49th minute, Senior Whitney Tuckfield played a ball into fellow senior Kylie Kukowski for the 3-2 lead that the Warhawks wouldn't relinquish.
NOTABLES
-Warhawks goal scorers Kylie Kukowski and Mia Walters each scored their second goals of the season on Friday while Mary Ashton Lembo scored her first goal of the season in her final home game Friday as well as Kukowski.
-Brooke-Lynn Scroggins came up with five saves in Friday's match as the Warhawks needed each one of those saves in the one goal contest.
-ULM and Troy met on Friday for the 12th time in the school's respective history on Friday afternoon. ULM broke an eight-game skid against Troy with the win.
QUOTABLES
Head Coach Keyton Wheelock
Thought on the game: We controlled our destiny coming in, not only today but this weekend, which was a positive compared to other teams in the conference. We needed to stick to our gameplan and get numbers behind and be clinical in the final third and we did that today. Troy is a very good team and caused us some issues going forward. They have tremendous fullbacks. We had three different players score today and they have all worked extremely hard all year long. All three of them created great chances for themselves and buried great goals.
Kylie Kukowski
Thought on the game: The game definetly had a different feel to it tonight. It is do or die at this point, both teams needed to win to make the tournament. It wasn't pretty soccer but we got the result and hopefully this moves us closer to the tournament berth.
On scoring the game winner: I saw a cross coming and I put everything into that 15 yard sprint and put a foot on it for the goal and the victory.
UP NEXT
-ULM will head to San Marcos, Texas for their final regular season match of the 2016 season on Sunday afternoon against Texas State. The match will kickoff at 1:00 p.m.
