Oct. 28, 2005
Box Score
OXFORD, Ohio - On Senior Day at Miami Soccer Field, the Miami University women's soccer team (8-8-0, 6-5-0 MAC) missed an opportunity to guarantee a home match in the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament as the visiting Ball State Cardinals (15-3-1, 8-2-1 MAC) handed the RedHawks a 2-1 loss on Friday afternoon.
Miami honored its two seniors Lindsay Dunmead (Plymouth, Mich./Northville) and Leigh Terry (Grand Haven, Mich./Grand Haven) prior to the game, but a pair of goals by the Cardinals' Angie Heyer helped spoil Senior Day. Heyer scored her first goal on a chip shot at the 6:12 mark and added the game-winning tally at 70:21 on a header off a corner kick.
After trailing by a goal at intermission, the RedHawks knotted the game at 1-1 when junior Aimee Prevallet (Fairfax Station, Va./Centreville) knocked home her second goal of the season in the 66th minute from just inside 20 yards. With the ball in the corner on the near sideline, a pair of passes from junior Kathleen Vistica (Monrovia, Md./Urbana) and sophomore Lindy Slinger (Dublin, Ohio/Coffman) swung the ball to Prevallet who booted the equalizer just beyond the arms of the leaping Ball State keeper. Both Vistica and Slinger were credited with assists on the goal.
The deadlock proved to be short lived as Ball State ended the tie less than five minutes later when Heyer's 71st-minute header gave the Cardinals a one-goal lead they would not relinquish.
Miami still has an opportunity to host a home field match in the first round of the conference tournament depending on the outcome of the Kent State and Buffalo match tonight at 6 p.m. A Kent State loss or tie would put Miami in fourth place and leave them as the host team for a first-round game, but a Kent State win would put Miami on the road to face the Golden Flashes. The quarterfinals of the MAC Tournament begin Nov. 1.
