• Final Stats

BURNABY, B.C. – In a season full of tight games, they have a recipe for success. The Falcons followed that formula Saturday.
 
Kasey Reeve kept alive her streak of netting every game-winning goal this season for Seattle Pacific, scoring in the 71st minute of a 2-1 win over Simon Fraser in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference women's soccer opener for both teams at Terry Fox Field.
 
The Falcons (3-2-0) stopped a two-game losing skein, including a 2-1 overtime setback on Tuesday at Cal Poly Pomona in their last non-conference contest.
 
All five SPU games have been decided by one-goal margins. Just like their two previous wins, Saturday's game featured a rally from an early deficit and a decisive late strike from their junior forward.

This was actually the earliest of Reeve's game winners, coming with 19 minutes left to play. She scored in the 88th minute of the season-opening 3-2 win over Chico State and delivered a 93rd-minute golden goal n a 2-1 triumph at Metro State.
 
Reeve capitalized on a SFU miscue for her team-leading fourth goal. A poor clearance traveled backwards, bounced off the turf and bounded over onrushing goalkeeper Priya Sandhu. Reeve raced to tap the ball across the goal line at 70:28, just before two Clan defenders converged on her.
 
Simon Fraser struck first in the 14th minute, taking advantage of a misplay on the Falcons back line. Carmen Brown picked off a defender's pass 25 yards from goal and dribbled straight at the goal before slipping a low, 13-yard shot to the left side, just past goalkeeper Molly Stinson.
 
Another dangerous opportunity for the hosts came 10 minutes later. Emma Pringle directed a hard blast from the edge of the box that Stinson was forced to parry over the crossbar. In the 32nd minute Brown struck the crossbar with the only one of six first-half shots by Simon Fraser that was not directly on goal.
 
The Clan owned the run of play until late in the half when SPU applied steady pressure, attempting five shots during the final 12 minutes of the period.
 
The Falcons nearly scored in the 37th minute when Sophia Chilczuk broke free, but Sandhu raced off her line and deflected the shot at the edge of the box. A follow-up attempt by Mickayla Mury was cleared off the line by the Clan's Samantha Donald.
 
Those two Falcons combined for the tying goal two minutes later. Chilczuk slipped a through pass to Mury, who dribbled into the box and over the sliding goalkeeper, who slightly slowed the ball, before slotting a seven-yard shot into the goal at 38:50. That was the second score of the season for the junior forward.
 
Stinson amassed six saves for SPU, which was outshot by a 14-11 margin. The Falcons senior shot-stopper is averaging 5.0 saves per game and is on pace to eclipse the school's career record. Stinson's 237 saves are 34 shy of the SPU career standard of 271 established by Jennifer Hull from 2001-04.
 
Sandhu stopped three shots for the Clan before being replaced in the 78th minute by Mikayla Isobe.
 
The Falcons finally return to Seattle for their first home game in September. They host Saint Martin's on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in the start of a soccer doubleheader at Interbay Stadium. The SPU men meet Simon Fraser at 7 p.m. in the nightcap.
 
The SPU women started the season with a 3-2 home victory over Chico State on Aug. 31 before playing four consecutive road contests. All five of their games have been decided by one-goal margins.
 
 
NCAA WOMEN'S SOCCER
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Terry Fox Field / Burnaby, B.C.
 
Seattle Pacific 2, at Simon Fraser 1
 
Scoring – 1, SF, Carmen Brown, 13:39; 2, SPU, Mickayla Mury (Sophia Chilczuk), 38:50 3, SPU, Kasey Reeve, 70:28.
 
                       1   2  --  TOTAL
Seattle Pacific        1   1  --    2
Simon Fraser           1   0  --    1
 
Shots – SPU 11, SF 14.
Saves – SPU 6 (Molly Stinson), SF 5 (Priya Sandhu 3, Mikayla Isobe 0, Team 2).
Corner Kicks – SPU 3, SF 5.
Fouls – SPU 13, SF 7.
Offsides – SPU 2, SF 1.
 
Records
Seattle Pacific 3-2-0, 1-0-0 GNAC
Simon Fraser 2-3-0, 0-1-0 GNAC
 
Next SPU Women's Soccer Game
Saint Martin's at Seattle Pacific
Thursday, Sept. 21, 4:30 p.m. PDT
Interbay Stadium / Seattle, Wash.