Wolfpack Drops 2-1 Decision With Fighting Irish

Sunday, September 30

South Bend, Ind.

1 PM

NC State

8-3-2, 1-2-1

Notre Dame

6-6, 2-2

NC State

Notre Dame

9/30/2018 3:38:00 PM | Women's Soccer

Box Score

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Despite the teams being knotted at one through the first 10 minutes of play, the No. 21 NC State women's soccer team dropped a 2-1 decision to Notre Dame on Sunday afternoon at Alumni Stadium in South Bend, Ind., after Jen Westendorf's goal that proved to be the game-winner in the 60^th minute.

The Wolfpack falls to 8-3-2 (1-2-1 ACC), while the Fighting Irish improve to 6-6-0 (2-2-0 ACC) on the season.

Quoting The Team

How It Happened
The Fighting Irish started the match with a pair of corners in the first five minutes, and the team attempted to score on both with header shots. On the second header Sydney Wootten made the save as she punched it out, but ND's Karin Muya found the rebound and put a low strike in the back of the net in the fifth minute.

Five minutes later Taylor Porter knotted the match with her first goal of the season. A Notre Dame defender tried to clear Hannah Keogh's cross off a corner and headed it out, but Michaella van Maanen got a foot on it and passed to Porter just above the six-yard box and she finished to the bottom right corner of the net.

In the rest of the opening half Notre Dame won five more corners and recorded another four shots, but the Pack's defensive organization kept the Irish from scoring again.

NC State came back from the locker room with four shots in the first 10 minutes. In the 60^th minute though after the Irish won a corner, Eva Hurm's long shot hit the crossbar and landed just in front of the goalmouth, allowing Jen Westendorf to get a foot on it and put her team up 2-1.

Wootten was forced to make three more saves in the final 20 minutes of the contest, as Notre Dame tallied eight more shots and won two more corners after the game-winning goal. Krissi Schuster and Tziarra King each found a scoring opportunity in the 77^th and 84^th minutes, but were unable to level the score.

Notre Dame outshot NC State 17-7, putting six on goal while winning 10 corners compared to the Pack's one in the first half.

Up Next
The Pack will continue its four-match road swing as it travels up north for a pair of conference contests with Syracuse and No. 11 Boston College. NC State will face the Orange Oct. 4 at 7 p.m., then travel to meet with the Eagles Oct. 7 at 1 p.m. Both matches will be broadcast on the ACC Network Extra.