ASHLAND – In a key matchup of top-three teams in the Cascade Conference standings, the No. 22-ranked College of Idaho women's soccer team kept the attacking pressure on Southern Oregon to earn a 3-1 victory on Saturday at Laurel Field.
The Yotes (11-3 overall, 7-2-0 CCC) finished off a six-point road weekend, scoring an own goal in the first half and getting two more from Alondra Osuna and Abbi Roubidoux in the second.
Seeking a fourth consecutive championship, they took over the circuit points lead with three regular-season games remaining – one point in front of Rocky Mountain (Mont.), which has four games left. The Raiders (8-2-3, 5-2-1) fell into a tie for third place.
The Yotes manufactured 21 shots and nine corner kicks on the day and broke through in the 11th minute, when Rylee Russell redirected a corner with a header that was bound for keeper
Ashlyn Fuss before a defender in front of her intervened and knocked it in.
Russell was also in the middle of the Yotes' second goal, just over two minutes into the second half. She was credited with an assist after taking a shot blocked in the box and rebounded by Osuna in space for a 15-yard strike.
SOU's
Abby McKean tallied for the third game in a row, cutting the lead in half in the 58th minute on
Brycelin Endrikat's seventh assist of the season, but the Yotes got it back in the 78th with Roubidoux's CCC-leading 10th goal. She tapped in right in front of the goal line after a save of a direct free kick off the foot of Shaelyn Olsen, who got an assist on the play.
Raider keeper
Ashlyn Fuss made seven saves. C of I's Molly McCabe only needed three.
The Yotes have won 43 of their last 46 conference contests.
