CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Southeast Missouri women's soccer (3-5) wrapped up its 2021 non-conference slate with a 1-0 victory over in-state rival, Missouri State (4-3-3, 1-0-0 Missouri Valley) Sunday at Houck Field.
 
Emma Brune scored her first goal of the season and Bailey Redden made eight saves for her second shutout in 2021.
 
Brune converted her third career goal on a header off a corner kick in the 35th minute. Kate Daus provided the service for the game-winner.
 
For Daus, a senior from Lindbergh, Missouri, it was her first career assist at SEMO.
 
Brune paced all field players with four shots including two shots on goal, competing in all 90 minutes. She started at forward and moved to midfield midway through the first half.
 
Brune has now played in all 720 minutes this season for SEMO and is the only Redhawk to play in every minute of regulation in 2021. The sophomore from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, extended her streak of playing every minute of regulation to 20-straight games dating back to this past spring's 2020-21 season.
 
Lauren Welker, Lexi Grote and Natalie Jackson also competed in the full 90 minutes Sunday. Grote and Jackson anchored the backline on defense. It was Grote's first match in 2021, playing the entire contest.
 
The Redhawks looked to increase their lead to 2-0 but Nadiia Ivanchenko's first-touch volleyball smacked the post in the waning moments of the first half. 
 
Missouri State outshot SEMO, 12-9, including eight to four on shots on target. The Redhawks led the shot margin 6-4 in the opening 45 minutes.
 
Kennady Orlick paced Missouri State with three shots on goal.
 
Welker, Hannah Compernolle (SOG), Abby Tremain (SOG), Elizabeth Rater, Ivanchenko and Anne-Clara Couturier each had a shot in the win.
 
Rater made her second-straight start in the midfield and fourth in the past five games.
 
Redden made eight saves including five in the second half for her second shutout of the season. She now ranks third all-time for saves (258), fourth for solo shutouts (16) and fifth for wins (24) in SEMO program history.
 
Katherine Montgomery made three saves in the loss for the Bears.
 
SEMO earned six corner kick opportunities compared to Missouri State's two.
 
Three yellow cards were assessed Sunday including to both team's benches and MSU's Jenna Anderson.

With the win, SEMO halted its losing streak to four games and concluded its goal drought at four. 

The Redhawks conclude non-conference play with a record of 3-5.
 
Sunday marked SEMO's annual Meg Herndon Memorial Green Up Game presented by Mid-America Transplant. The Redhawks honored former Redhawk Meg Herndon who was tragically involved in a truck-scooter accident in 2012. SEMO wore specialty green and blue uniforms to support organ and tissue donation.
 
Cindy Silvey, Meg Herndon's mother, presented a check to the Meg Herndon Scholarship Fund prior to the game Sunday.
 
Tremain, a senior nursing major like Herndon, was named the recipient of the Meg Herndon Scholarship for the third-straight season.

SEMO next opens its 2021 Ohio Valley Conference slate Sunday, Sept. 26 against Belmont. First kick is set for 1 p.m., CT at Houck Field.