BILLINGS, Mont. –The Montana State University Billings Women's Soccer team will finish their regular season at home against Western Oregon University and Northwest Nazarene University.
The Jackets will host the Wolves of WOU in a battle between the fourth and fifth place teams in the conference. MSUB is 5-7-2 overall and 4-7-1 Great Northwest Athletic Conference while WO is 8-3-5 overall and 6-3-3 in GNAC play. The first meeting between the two teams saw the Wolves defeat the Jackets 2-0. The Wolves outshot the Jacket 13-5.
The Jackets will look to shut down Makana Pundyke who has eight goals, two assists and 18 points for the Wolves on the year.
While the defense concentrates on shutting down Pundyke and the rest of the WO offense, who is fourth in the conference in points per game averaging 3.25, the Jacket offense must capitalize on scoring opportunities and will look to
Heidi Greenback who leads the Jackets with 11 points on five goals with two assists.
The game will begin at 3:00 P.M. this Thursday Oct. 31. Live stats and video can be found at MSUBSPORTS.COM
For the Jackets season finale, they will play host to Northwest Nazarene whom MSUB played to a 1-1 tie after Greenback scored a goal with 17 seconds left off of a pass from
Amanda Perri.
In what was an evenly fought match the entire way, The Crusaders outshot the Yellowjackets 14-13 and held the advantage in corner kicks 4-6.
Argia Phillips leads the conference in saves with 72, but has allowed 31 goals for a .699 save percentage.
Krystal Daniels will start her 6th game for the Jackets, she has 15 saves while allowing just three goals for a save percentage of 8.24 which is the fourth best percentage in the conference.
The match will also honor this year's seniors,
Jackie Hill and
Heidi Greenback. Both are finishing their fourth year as members of the Montana State University Billings Women's team. They will be honored before the game.
The match will begin at approximately 1:00 P.M. Nov. 2nd with stats and live video at MSUBSPORTS.COM.