WEST LIBERTY, W. Va. (Oct. 2) - The Wheeling University women's soccer team was handed a 4-2 loss at West Liberty Wednesday night in a Mountain East Conference (MEC) contest.

THE RUNDOWN

• Final Score:  West Liberty 4, Wheeling 2 (Box Score)
• Records: Wheeling (0-8, 0-5 MEC) | Notre Dame (2-5-1, 2-2-1 MEC)
• Location: West Family Athletic Complex - West Liberty, West Virginia

HOW IT HAPPENED

• West Liberty began the scoring in the 12th-minute on a corner-kick that was finished by a header.
• The Cardinals tied the match minutes later when senior midfielder Micah Miller (Wyomissing, Pa./ Wyomissing Area) notched her first goal of the 2019 campaign on a penalty-kick opportunity to send the match into halftime tied at 1-1.
• West Liberty dominated the second half with three unanswered goals across a 25 minute span to pull away.
• Sophomore Braedynn Porter (Mineral Ridge, Ohio/Mineral Ridge) scored her first goal of the season off of a Miller assist in the closing minutes of the contest to bring the final tally to 4-2.

MATCH NOTES

• Redshirt-freshman goalkeeper Mikayla Yarwood (Surrey, British Columbia/Clayton Heights) tallied six saves in the loss.
• The Hilltoppers out-shot the Cardinals 18-to-14 for the match.

UP NEXT

• Wheeling travels to Urbana on Sunday, October 6 to take on the Blue Knights in a MEC match at 1 p.m.
• A live stream of the match will be available online and on The Mountain East Network OTT app (Roku, AppleTV, Android, and Amazon Fire TV).