Match #6
Southeast Missouri (0-5-0) at Indiana State (2-3-2)
 
Date: Sunday, September 7
Time: 1:00 P.M., CT. 
Location: Terre Haute, Ind. 
Venue: Memorial Stadium
Series: SEMO leads 3-1-1
Head Coaches: John Klein (SEMO | First Season); Paul Lawrence (ISU | Second Season) 
 
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SEMO Hits the Road to Take on Sycamores

Southeast Missouri Women's Soccer (0-5-0) travels to Terre Haute Indiana to battle against Indiana State (2-3-2) Sunday afternoon.

Series History

The Redhawks are 3-1 against the Sycamores with the most recent match up being on September 1, 2024 where SEMO lost 3-0. That meeting was the first since 2009, where SEMO took down Indiana State 1-0. The first meeting was in 2002 in Cape Girardeau and the Redhawks won 2-0.

Last week

SEMO hosted both Missouri State on Aug. 28 and North Alabama on Aug. 31.

Missouri State

SEMO lost 3-0. Emma Shields scored the first goal for Missouri St. in the 29^th minute to take a 1-0 lead into halftime. In the second half, Missouri State added goals from Reilly Herman and Brooke Cattoor. The Bears collected 16 shots but only putting seven on goal. The Redhawks totaled eight shots with five on target.

North Alabama

The Redhawks lost 3-0 as well. The Lions got the scoring started in the 14^th minute when Alice Bussey found the back of the net. After defender Emma Cloud was shown a red card, the Lions added a goal in the 21^st minute from Alana Owens and Anna Fugarino in the 80^th minute. North Alabama outshot SEMO 18-2 and in shots on goal 9-1.

Stepping Up

Senior Cayla Koerner moved from the field to goalkeeper after starter Madison Geisler went down with an injury. In her two games against Missouri State and North Alabama she made 10 saves and a .625 save percentage. She has faced 34 total shots in those games as well.
Koerner also collected a shot on goal, on a set piece, in the game against North Alabama.

New Redhawks

Olivia Klinkhardt and Skylar Craft both made their SEMO debuts on the last week. Klinkhardt logged 68 minutes in the last two games on the back line and Craft played 54 minutes on defense, including 48 minutes against North Alabama.

Freshman Impressing

Defender Rachel Kretzer has played all 90-minutes in all five games this season on the backline for the Redhawks, the only player to do so. Against Missouri State midfielder Zoe Houston and defender Emma Cloud joined Kretzer in playing the full 90. Against North Alabama only midfielder Justi Nelson played the whole match.

First Start of the Season

Forward Emily Baker made her first start of the season, after recovering from an injury. After missing the opener her minutes have increased every game before achieving her first start of the season.

Missouri Valley Conference

This will be the fourth game for SEMO against the MVC. They started off the season against Evansville before playing Southern Illinois and Missouri State in back-to-back games. There is one more game against the MVC on the schedule which will be the next time out against Murray State on Thursday.