Women’s soccer suffers another winless weekend

It has not been a very pretty couple of weeks for the VCU women’s soccer team. With eight players missing time for injury or sickness and a difficult conference slate, the Rams had lost three of four matches coming into Sunday’s home match with Old Dominion.

After a 1-0 loss to William & Mary on Friday night, the Rams were looking to avoid their second winless home weekend in a row.

The Rams were unsuccessful in this task, dropping their sixth 1-0 decision of the season to the Monarchs.

“I thought, as a team, we grew today. We actually played much better than the past couple of games and the girls really fought hard for each other,” said VCU coach Tim Sahaydak.

From the kickoff the game was dominated by ODU as they jumped out to the lead early on in the action.

Freshman Ashlee Coutu received a cross into the box by teammate Jocelyn Weidner and put it by VCU keeper Kate Hudson (Clarksville, Md./U of Richmond).

The goal would prove to be the clincher as the Monarchs outshot the Rams 16-4 in the match.

The only solid VCU opportunity came off a corner kick with 29 minutes