Soccer: Montoya Scores Twice as Cajuns Topple Devilettes, 3-0
Nick Ross, September 15, 2013
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LAFAYETTE, La. – The Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns soccer team won their second match of the weekend, beating Mississippi Valley State, 3-0, on Sunday at the Cajun Soccer Complex. Freshman forward Yazmin Montoya scored twice and added an assist, for a five-point match to lead the Cajuns to victory.
"It was a good weekend for us," head coach Scot Wieland said after the match. "We had good goal scoring, a shutout on a Sunday and our freshmen are doing a good job offensively. Friday night it was Annika [Schmidt] with four goals, and then a goal today, and Montoya had two goals today. It was a good weekend. I’m happy and I know that the girls are happy."
The five-point output by Montoya places her with five others in third place for most points in a match.
"Today we wanted to come out strong," Monotya said. "We won on Friday and we wanted to get two wins this weekend. We haven’t won two games in a row, so we just focused on working hard, playing with each other and we obviously scored some goals."
The Cajuns got the combined clean sheet from starter Cory DeMarco who made one save in the first 45 minutes, and Kendall Graham, who made three saves after coming in to start the second half. It was the third match in a row that the duo has shared duties in goal.
"They both did a good job with a combined shutout," Wieland said. "We gave up one goal over the weekend, [Graham] and [DeMarco] were both very solid in net."
Montoya got the scoring started in the third minute, the quickest the Cajuns have scored all season. She got the ball off of a throw-in and had to muscle through some defenders before getting the shot past the keeper.
The score would stay at 1-0 in favor of Louisiana for the next 75 minutes of play, before freshman Annika Schmidt netted her ninth goal of the season. Schmidt got a feeding pass from Montoya while between two defenders and took a quick shot for the goal. She now has 19 points on the season, just two away from the all-time record, set by Stacy Smith in 2002.
Montoya added to her already good match seven minutes later. She got the ball down low and took a hard shot that went off the post and caromed back to her, for another clean shot, this one going into the net. It was her first career multi-goal match.
"On the first goal, I received it from a throw in and I just wanted to get it in," Montoya said. "It ricocheted a couple times and I put my body into it and scored. The second goal was the same sort of situation. After it hit the post I thought ‘I better not kick it over the net’ so I kept my head down and volleyed it into the net."
It was the second clean sheet for the Cajuns this season, with the first one going to Cory DeMarco against Northwestern State in a 5-0 win on Sept. 1.
The win improved the Cajuns record to 3-4-2 on the season with one more non-conference match at Houston on Sept. 20 before opening Sun Belt Conference play at Georgia State on Sept. 27.
