CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Cleveland State women's soccer team cruised their way to a 7-0 victory over Detroit Mercy on Monday evening inside the Krenzler Field Bubble. Monday's match marked the team's final regular season game of the 2021 spring season. The Vikes finish the campaign with a 6-4-0 overall record and one of only two teams to play out the full 10-game season.
QUOTE TO NOTE
"That was a fun afternoon. Obviously, we knew we could only control the things that we could control, which was getting a result here, and we definitely took care of that with a really good performance. I couldn't be more proud of this group. We've asked so much of this group of kids - from a summer to be prepared for a season that didn't happen to hanging through a fall with limited, restricted and tough student-athlete parameters to perform, both on and off the field, all the way to a shrunken down season where we asked a lot of them. Today, we stand here as one of only two teams in the entire conference that made it through the entire 10-game schedule. It's just a great group. Today was just a lot of fun. They just enjoy one anothers' company and that's what today became about. It was a perfect way to cap off nine-and-a-half months of really tough times that this group leaned on eachother and this is a memory we'll have forever." - Head Coach Dallas Boyer
THE GAME
A program-record seven different Vikes scored in Monday's match, with the seven goals tying a program record for most goals scored in a single game (7 vs. Chicago State, 8/23/15). Elena Gutlove, Kathryn Ramicone, Ja'Maya Ward, McKenna Donahue, Elizabeth Harper, Maia Ransom and Abigail McKeown all found the back of the net for the Green and White.
Ward got the scoring going for Cleveland State 12 minutes into Monday's contest. Donahue was next up for the Vikes, striking the ball into the net from the left side of the box, assisted by Ramicone. Gutlove and Ransom each netted goals for the Green and White following Donahue's score.
Donahue, Gutlove and Ransom each scored their goals within four minutes of each other (59-63 minutes).
At the intermission of Monday's tilt against the Titans, the Vikes held a commanding 4-0 lead.
Cleveland State tacked on three more goals in the final 45 minutes of action as Ramicone tallied her fifth score of the season, while McKeown and Harper each notched their first goals of the spring campaign.
Stevie Holbrook secured her fifth win of the season, as well as her second-straight clean sheet. The reigning Nike #HLWSOC Defensive Player of the Week finishes her Cleveland State career with 14 shutouts, good for second-most in program history.
The Vikings outshot the Titans 19-3, while only committing three fouls to Detroit Mercy's 12. Cleveland State played 25 different players in the #HLWSOC win.
