The Thompson Rivers University WolfPack women's soccer team's scoring drought continued on Friday night (Sept 20) in Winnipeg.
Playing inside because of a thunderstorm warning, the WolfPack dropped a 4-0 decision to the University of Manitoba Bisons.  The two sides were playing at the Subway Soccer Centre.
 
 SYNOPSIS

The WolfPack found themselves down 2-0 at the half and despite some good chances, two by Shae Fuoco (3^rd year, forward, Kamloops, BC) and one by Taylor Miller (5^th year, midfield, Kamloops, BC) in the second half, they were unable to score for the third straight match.
TRU is winless in five starts.

This was Manitoba's second ever Canada West indoor match at home. Ironically, the last one was also against TRU and it was a 4-0 Bisons victory. It happened in 2015-16.
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COMMENTS BY COACH  MARK PENNINGTON:

"A poor the performance on the day. Not indicative of who we are as a group or the direction of where we want to go. From that perspective, Not impressive day all around.  We need to be better across the park. We need to have more grit. We need to have more fight and quality around the net. Its another game that we were shutout.  We spent a bit of time around the goal in training this week. Unfortunately, we haven't managed to put the ball in the net again. It is something that we will revisit with a match around the corner.  We have to keep reminding ourselves that this is a process. We will look to move in the right direction. Unfortunately, days like today aren't the standard that I am trying take this program and where this program wants to go.  The building blocks we are trying to use to stay positive are tough on days like today.  We will regroup and do our best to get a result tomorrow.  "


THE STATS:

TRU                               0  0 --0
Manitoba Bisons            2  2  --4
 
GOAL SCORING SUMMARY:

Manitoba:

1. 11:28  Nicole Davis from Stefanie Young (first of year)  1-0
2. 26:38  Nicole Davis from Stefanie Young (second of the year) 2-0
3. 46:57: Jessica Tsai from Kathrine Meo (third of the year) 3-0
4. 51:34: Stefanie Young from Gabrielle Clark (third of the year) 4-0

 
RECORD:     TRU: 0-4-1              Manitoba: 2-3-0
 
 
GOAL KEEPERS:    TRU: Danielle Robertson         MANITOBA-Anna Biebrich
 
SHOTS ON GOAL:    Manitoba 22 (13 in first half)   TRU 15 (4 in the first half)
SAVES:    TRU  9 (7 in the first half)   Manitoba 9 (5 in the second half)
CORNER KICKS:  TRU   3 (2 in the first half)   Manitoba 2 (both in first half)
FOULS:   TRU  5 (1 in the first half) Manitoba  11    (3 in the first half)         
 
UP NEXT

Thompson Rivers will continue their road trip with a match against the University of Winnipeg Wesmen on Saturday (Sept 21). It will also be played indoors due to the weather.  This will be the third ever league meeting between the two teams. Thompson Rivers has never lost to Winnipeg.  Kick off is 5 pm PDT at this point, but it could be moved back a half hour.

Manitoba will take on the UBCO Heat on Saturday at the Subway Soccer Centre.

The WolfPack will return home after that match to host the University of Calgary Dinos and the University of Northern British Columbia Timberwolves on the Warner Rentals field at Hillside Stadium on September 28^th and 29^th. Match times both those days will be noon PDT.

All of the above games can be seen on a pay per view basis on www.CanadaWesttv.presented by Co-OP.