VICKSBURG, Miss. — Northwestern State’s Paige Baumgartner found the back of the net for the first time this season, but a flurry of goals in the first half from Alcorn State sent the Braves to a 3-1 women’s soccer victory on Thursday at Key City Park.
NSU (0-5) could not overcome a mistake-filled first half that saw the home team score on a penalty kick and off a turnover near the Demons’ net.
“Overall, it was a really disappointing match,” Northwestern coach Ian Brophy said. “We didn’t play well at all and in the first half, it was the same story as the rest of the season with the self-inflicted wounds. We found ourselves down 3-0 and had to claw our way back.
“We had a goal late in the first half and in the second half we had all the possession, and we didn’t find the goal and didn’t test the goalkeeper enough and ended up losing a winnable match.”
The game was the final one of five straight to begin the regular season on the road.
NSU is home Sunday at 1 for the first time this season when it welcomes Louisiana Tech to the Demon Soccer Complex.
Alcorn (2-3) scored the first three goals of Thursday night’s match with two of them coming off the foot of Grace Ambrose, one of the top goal scorers in the nation.
Baumgartner found the back of the net in the 44th minute on a shot from the left side of the box off a pass from Bonnie Miller to give the Demons some momentum going into the break. But NSU could not convert that into more scoring afterward.