No. 18 Soccer Opens Season with Commanding 5-0 Win

OXFORD, Miss. – No. 18 Ole Miss opened the 2022 season with authority on Thursday night time, scoring early and sometimes in a 5-0 victory over Southeastern on the Ole Miss Soccer Stadium.
 
The Rebels peppered the Lion aim all through the night time, outshooting SLU 22-1, together with 11 pictures on aim. The nook flag was an enormous weapon for Ole Miss on the night time, changing 11 probabilities into three scores.
 
Of the 5 objectives, 4 have been bagged by debutants as Lauren Montgomery, Marykate McGuire, Aubrey Mister and Brenlin Mullaney all scored for the primary time in Crimson and Navy. When good issues occurred for Ole Miss, most occasions it got here via Taylor Radecki, who tallied three assists on the night time.
 
On an evening stuffed with objectives for the house facet, the primary got here with slightly additional that means. Fourteen minutes into the match, Montgomery adopted up a Mo O’Connor shot and slid the rebound below the keeper to place the Rebels on the board just a bit over a 12 months after tearing her ACL through the 2021 preseason.
 
Just some minutes later, Ole Miss struck twice within the span of 25 seconds to open issues up, with each objectives coming off of headers from Radecki nook kicks.
 
The 2 objectives have been close to mirror photos of one another, with McGuire heading house from shut vary off a Ramsey Davis feed and Mister ending off a headed go from O’Connor.
 
The Rebels remained on the entrance foot all through the primary 45 minutes, hitting the locker room up 3-0.
 
Ole Miss got here out of the halftime break with the identical vitality and within the 58^th minute, O’Connor obtained herself on the scoresheet. Setup by one other nook, Riley Friesen’s header was blocked by a Lion defender and the Oxford native pounced on the rebound, smashing a shot below the crossbar.
 
True freshman Brenlin Mullaney completed issues off within the 73^rd minute. The aim got here off a set piece as Radecki slid a ball to the rookie, who fired low and arduous throughout the aim mouth, nestling her shot contained in the nook.
 
With momentum on its facet, Ole Miss turns its consideration to a derby matchup that includes two ranked sides on Sunday as No. 22 Memphis visits Oxford for a 7 p.m. kick. The match might be out there for streaming via SEC Community +.

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