Four different PVAMU Lady Panthers score goals in 4-1 win over New Mexico State

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – Four Prairie View A&M players found the back of the net Sunday as the Lady Panthers concluded non-conference play with a 4-1 win over New Mexico State.

A free kick off the foot of Breanna Powell from 22 yards out that deflected off a New Mexico State player in the 42nd minute turned out to be the match-winner as the Lady Panthers improved to 3-3-1 on the season.

New Mexico State fell to 1-8 with the loss.

Senior goalkeeper Dominique Dillon picked up her third win in goal for the Lady Panthers this season, making eight saves. She stopped all five shots on goal she faced in the second half.

Juniors Ashley Virgil and Alicia Cooper also scored in the match, as did freshman Taylor Brown, who recorded the first goal of her collegiate career. Khalisha Bond assisted on both Virgil's and Cooper's goals.

Virgil opened the scoring in the 18th minute when she headed a crossing pass from Bond into the lower-right corner of the goal past Aggies goalkeeper Ashley Martin. It was Virgil's first goal at home since a 4-0 win over Grambling State on Oct. 27, 2013.

Powell's goal unlocked a 1-1 tie after New Mexico State's Sabrina Ruiz scored the Aggies' lone goal in the 33rd minute.

Brown stretched Prairie View A&M's lead to 3-1 17 minutes after the restart when she booted home a shot off a pass from Bailey LaBauve from four yards out. Cooper iced the game in the 85th minute when she took a long pass from Bond and beat the keeper in a one-on-one breakaway.

The Lady Panthers open Southwestern Athletic Conference play Friday when they host Arkansas–Pine Bluff. Match time is scheduled for 7 p.m.

NOTES:•The Lady Panthers won their second-ever match over a team from a program that fields FBS Football. The only other such win was a 1-0 victory at North Texas on Sept. 12, 2009.
•Their 3-3-1 start is their best seven-match streak to open the season since 2004, when the Lady Panthers started 5-2. Six of those matches were against SWAC teams.
•The Lady Panthers have never had .500 record after seven matches when playing teams outside the SWAC.
•The Lady Panthers won their first-ever match over New Mexico State. They had been outscored 12-0 in their previous matchups with the Aggies, both losses.

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