Hoya Women's Soccer 2024

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Gets to be like Groundhog Day....Every year the Hoya women are disrespected early and forced to work their way up the rankings. Same old, same old....

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[RusskyHoya]

That's gonna be one miserable plane flight back from Chicago. A single mistake can sink you, and in this case, it did. Hopefully the lesson, while painful, proves instructive.

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Ouch indeed.

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1-0 Hoyas final

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Hoyas and X-Women both take care of business on the road, albeit much more comfortably for the Muskies. Tremendous save by Anna Karpenko in the 90th minute to preserve the win.

Three conference games left. Hoyas will be heavy favorites at home against Marquette and only slightly less heavy favorites on the road at Villanova. Xavier gets a home date against Providence and a trip to Marquette - heavy favorites in both. It would be great if they were to drop points while the Hoyas win out, but as it stands, it looks like the All Hallows' Eve showdown will be for the #1 seed, but Georgetown will be co-regular season champs at best.

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Lardner 4 shots, 4 SOG, 2G in first 24 mins.

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The Hoyas easily dispatching Marquette was as expected. What was NOT at all expected was Providence coming into Cincinnati and knocking off the X-Women. Sam Lopes is a very good coach and his teams are plenty tough, but I did not see this one coming.

It's now looking very likely that Georgetown and Xavier will have identical conference records when they face off on Halloween with the regular season title on the line.

At the moment, Xavier would hold the tiebreaker for the #1 seed based on their win over/Hoyas draw with Butler, the #3 team. But given the logjam on the middle of the standings, a lot could change there.

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Head Coach Dave Nolan
"Today was a good day for us, these games are always tricky as Marquette had points to play for in hopes of making the conference tournament. I give them credit; they battled right to the end and that is a good sign for Chris Allen and his squad moving forward.

Overall, I was really happy with our play, and it helps when Maja Lardner steps in and scores two great goals in the first half as she is really coming into her own right now. The rest of the team did really well, and we limited the number of chances they had. We played a different system today and I thought in the first half we were coming to grips with that, and we got a little bit better in the second half when the game opened up and we dominated possession and space. Our back line and goalkeepers kept another shutout marking our 11th of the season which is a great sign for us as we near postseason play.

Today also provided the opportunity to get more kids on the field as that has been hard the past few games for us. We have two tough games left heading up to Villanova on Thursday. Hopefully we can take care of business up there although it won't be easy, before coming home to face Xavier with a regular season crown possibly on the line."