Freshman Blair Barker from Notre Dame High School scored the goal as Jacksonville State University opened its women’s soccer season Friday night with a 1-0 win at McNeese State. Barker, a Hixson resident who was a two-time first-team all-state player for the Lady Irish, scored off a goalkeeper’s deflection of a teammate’s shot 38:27 into the game in Lake Charles, La.
• Samaria Kahn’s goal with less than two minutes left in overtime gave the Tennessee Wesleyan College women’s soccer team a season-opening 1-0 win Saturday afternoon against Faulkner University in Montgomery, Ala. Caitlin Sebert made nine saves for Wesleyan, which was outshot 13-7 with a 9-3 disadvantage in shots on goal. Faulkner is 1-1.
• Tennessee Temple also began its women’s soccer season with a 1-0 road win Saturday — beginning a doubleheader at Point University in West Point, Ga. The Point men won 5-0 Freshman Kansas Carpenter from Heritage High School scored 20:49 into the women’s match for the Lady Crusaders, who will host Reinhardt at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Camp Jordan Park and then challenge the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on Friday night at Finley Stadium. Point (1-1) edged Temple 10-9 in shots; TTU freshman keeper Lyndi Dodd from Warren County made four saves in the shutout. In the Skyhawks’ win, Tom Irving assisted on the first goal and scored the next two, both assisted by Frederico Dearamburu, who scored later. Josue Fernandez had seven saves in defeat.
• The Bryan College men’s soccer team begins official play Monday night by hosting Toccoa Falls at 7. The Lions, picked to finish second behind Tennessee Wesleyan in the Appalachian Athletic Conference this season, return three first-team All-AAC players — junior goalkeeper Josh Oldroy, junior midfielder Gustavo Angel Tamayo and senior defender Rasheed Malcolm — plus second-team midfielder Jorge Gonzalez Giron, a senior. Bryan’s Joey Johnson was the AAC coach of the year in his first season leading the Dayton team. The Lions were 12-4-2, 6-1-1 in the AAC.
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