Box Score
EDMOND (Oct. 15) – Only a shot taken in the final seconds of the first half prevented Central Oklahoma from posting a double shutout Friday afternoon at chilly Tom Thompson Field as the Bronchos overwhelmed Texas A&M International 9-0.
UCO tied a single-game school record by taking 50 shuts in the drubbing, while the Dustdevils managed just one – and that came with 30 seconds left in the opening half. The Bronchos seldom let TAMIU venture past midfield in the mismatch and easily recorded their seventh shutout of the season.
Leading scorer Stephanie Lovely didn't play, but it hardly mattered as Katy Kashwer and Ashton Morris scored three goals apiece. Tiffanie Meek added her first two scores of the season and Beth Helm tallied her first career goal in the rout.
Kashwer took 12 shots, the third-most in school history, and her eight shots-on-goal was the second-most.
“We got to play a lot of different people and it was good to see us put the ball in the net like that,” said UCO coach Mike Cook, whose team improved to 9-3-2. “We needed to come out strong after a tough loss the other day and now we've got to get ready for two big games coming up this weekend.”
The Bronchos, who fell to Lone Star Conference rival West Texas A&M on Sunday, go on the road for league games at Abilene Christian and Angelo State this weekend.
UCO got its first score just 6:39 into the contest when Meek knocked in a shot from close range off a pass from Kayla Wright and Kashwer booted in her first goal at the 17:44 mark to make it 2-0.
Adriene Lents got the assist on Meek's second goal, a shot from 15 yards out that curved past the goalkeeper in the 44th minute to give the Bronchos a 3-0 halftime advantage.
Morris scored the next three goals, two of them coming within two minutes of each other.
The first came at 48:35 with an easy shot into an open net off a deflection and the second was at 50:43 when Morris rifled in a shot from 30 feet off a nice cross from Meghan Saliba. The sophomore finished her scoring flurry in the 63rd minute, taking a pass from Lizzie Merritt and beating the keeper for an easy open-net goal.
Kashwer made it 7-0 at the 73:41 mark with she headed in a pass from Jordan Broddle and Helm got her first-ever goal five minutes later on another header, with Meek getting the assist.
Kashwer got her third goal when she drilled a long shot from 30 yards out that just curved into the net as the final buzzer sounded.
