A WIN starts the 2024 Women’s Soccer Season for SEU

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A WIN starts the 2024 Women’s Soccer Season for SEU

The new regular season kicks off in Thomasville, GA playing against Thomas University. It was a tight first half as the NightHawks scored first and the half finished 2-1 with goals scored by Ariadna Lozano and Madelyn Davidson. The second half kicked off with two goals by the NightHawks, bringing the score to 2-3 against SEU. Madelyn Davidson then scored the equalizing goal, and a final own goal by a NightHawk player gave SEU a 4-3 victory.

SEU Fire reports:

Women's Soccer 8/24/2024 4:45:00 PM Christopher Myers Fire Rally to Edge Nighthawks Box Score THOMASVILLE, Ga. – After playing to a 2-1 halftime lead, the Fire had to come from behind to beat the Thomas Night Hawks, 4-3, to take the season opener. The Fire gave up a goal just 14 seconds into the contest when Pearl Mortimer found the back of the net. Ariadna Lozano tied the game for SEU four minutes later from an assist by Alivia Knapp. Madelyn Davidson gave the Fire a 2-1 lead when she scored at the 40:18 mark, assisted by Amelia Hammond. The Night Hawks scored twice in just over a two-minute period midway through the second half, the second by Mortimer, to take a 3-2 lead. The Thomas lead lasted only six minutes, as Davidson scored her second goal of the game after tapping in a rebound off a Katie Carnes shot to tie the match for a third time, 3-3, at 71:50. Only 6:19 later, Southeastern pressured the Night Hawks again when Lozano belted her shot toward the goal and the rebound went to Vogel who sent it back in, only to have it knocked into the net by a Thomas defender for an own goal for what would be the winning score and 4-3 final tally. The SEU defense held Thomas to a single shot over the final 12 minutes of play. The Fire victory runs the program's win streak in the series with Thomas to eight-straight matches dating back to 2016. The teams last met in Thomasville on November 1, 2022, resulting in a 2-0 SEU win. The Fire win also is the first opening victory since two years to the day in a 2-0 road win over the Olivet Nazarene. Davidson took a team-high six shots and scored on two of her three shots on goal. Lozano had three shots. In net, keeper Madison Songer stopped nine of the 12 shots she faced over 90 minutes. Southeastern will enjoy the opening win for a week before its first home match next Saturday, September 3, at 1 p.m. against No. 13 Truett McConnell.

Rhett provides some highlights after stopping posts to SnoValley Sports Journal:

Good Sunday morning everyone. Even though I am retired at this point, I want to take a quick moment to thank all of you for your longtime and faithful support of my coverage the past 23 years here in the Valley. And as a token of my appreciation, I am going to do something nice for all of you here on Facebook starting this morning. What it is I think I will do for you guys is do a weekly rundown of the best performances from each week for our many local athletes playing collegiately this fall. Some of you know I despite having hung it up still compiled the fall schedules for our local college athletes and I figure, well, how about I put this to some good use and continue to let all of you know how kids are doing at the next level. So it is my plan at this point to probably do this once a week here on Sundays most likely but if we have something of major significance that deserves its own shoutout, I’ll do those as needed during the week. With that said, here are my Week “0” shoutouts and both of these came out of women’s action yesterday. On the soccer pitch, Florida’s Southeastern University got all it could handle in their season opener with Thomas University from Georgia, but Carnation’s Madelyn “Mad Dog” Davidson, who is a junior this fall with the Fire, scored two goals and helped her SEU squad hold off Thomas 4-3. Good stuff for the Mad Dog and I’m sure the Fan Club approves. Right, Phil? There was also a season debut for North Bend’s Friley Curtiss on the volleyball floor yesterday, as she played in both matches for her Southern Oregon University squad at a tournament in California. Curtiss, a sophomore this fall, pounded 10 kills and a dig in a five-set 25-21, 25-20, 23-25, 25-27, 15-7 SOU win over Life Pacific, then dropped six more kills along with a second dig and a block pacing a three-set Raider sweep over Westcliff 25-17, 25-9, 25-9. Fantastic effort Friley and good job! Davidson is a Cedarcrest High School alum while Curtiss is a Mount Si High School alum. WTG ladies!

Stats from the game:

Individual Overall Offensive Statistics # Player GP GS MIN G A PTS SH SH% SOG SOG% YC-RC GW PG-PA 8 Davidson, Madelyn 1 1 72 2 0 4 6 0.333 3 0.500 0-0 0 0-0
#8 Davidson, MadelynClose Davidson, Madelyn Position: M Height: 5-5 Bio: Full Bio Class: Junior Hometown: Carnation, Wash. High School: Cedarcrest HS Davidson, Madelyn - Game By Game Statistics Date Opponent G A PTS SH SH% SOG SOG% MIN 8/24/2024 Thomas 2 0 4 6 0.333 3 0.500 72
Pause 8 Madelyn Davidson Position Midfielder Height 5-5 Class Junior Highschool Cedarcrest HS Hometown Carnation, Wash. Bio Related Stats Historical Statistics Season: 2024 2024 Season Statistics Season Highs Season Highs Statistic Value Date Opponent Shots 6 8/24/2024 at Thomas Shots On Goal 3 8/24/2024 at Thomas Goals 2 8/24/2024 at Thomas Assists 0 8/24/2024 at Thomas Minutes 72 8/24/2024 at Thomas Game-by-Game Statistics Davidson, Madelyn - Game By Game Statistics Date Opponent GP GS Score G A PTS SH SH% SOG SOG% YC-RC GW PK-ATT MIN 8/24/2024 at Thomas * * 4-3 2 0 4 6 0.333 3 0.500 0-0 0 0-0 72 Totals 1 1 4-3 2 0 4 6 0.333 3 0.500 0-0 0 0-0 72 Career Statistics Scoring Statistics Scoring Statistics Season GP GS G A PTS SH SH% SOG SOG% GW PK-ATT MIN 2022 12 2 2 2 6 12 0.167 5 0.417 0 0-0 433 2023 19 19 11 1 23 46 0.239 27 0.587 2 0-0 1352 2024 1 1 2 0 4 6 0.333 3 0.500 0 0-0 72 Total 32 22 15 3 33 64 0.234 35 0.547 2 0-0 1857