RedHawks and Bulldogs Play to 1-1 Tie

OXFORD, Ohio – For the first time all spring season, the Miami University women’s soccer team surrendered a goal, but the RedHawks bounced back to earn a 1-1 tie against visiting Butler Saturday afternoon at Miami Soccer Field. The RedHawks (3-0-1) won their first three spring exhibitions by a combined 7-0.

“Overall I thought our play was very fragmented,” head coach Bobby Kramig said. “We would go through 10-minute spells where we’d play really well and then we’d go through 10-minute spells where we just looked disorganized and just unsure of what we were doing.”

Rising senior keeper Rachelle Boff, who played the first half before giving way to redshirt freshman Shannon Rosenberg in net, kept her clean sheet on the spring campaign intact, as the two sides went into halftime scoreless. Boff has two complete shutouts this spring and also has now pitched two scoreless halves in Miami’s other two contests.

“We made a couple of adjustments at halftime that helped us a little bit but we just seemed a bit out of synch today,” Kramig said. “The kids played hard and the effort was there but the timing was off a bit and we were a little slow to give up the ball at times.”

Butler broke the deadlock in the 71st minute on a counterattack as the Bulldogs chipped the ball over Rosenberg’s head for the first goal scored against the ’Hawks in four spring contests.

Miami finally tallied the equalizer in the closing minutes of the contest as rising senior Brooke Livingston played a great ball through the defense that fellow rising senior Sara Lund ran onto and finished into the back of the net for the 1-1 draw.

“It was good to see us hang in there even though we weren’t playing particularly well,” Kramig said. “We stuck with it and worked hard and eventually we were able to get the equalizer.”

The RedHawks wrap up their spring season by hosting Kentucky on Saturday, April 24 at 1 p.m. at Miami Soccer Field.