LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Little Rock scored in the 87th minute to break a 1-1 tie and defeat the University of South Alabama soccer team 2-1 Sunday at the Coleman Sports Complex.

The Trojans improve to 8-3-2 overall and 3-1-1 in the Sun Belt Conference. The Jaguars have their two-match win streak snapped and fall to 5-8 and 3-3.

GAME FACTS
- Little Rock wasted little time in going on top thanks to a goal from Doro Greulich in the seventh minute
- USA's first four shots on goal were taken by freshman Brenna McPartlan
- Freshman Morgan Cross knotted the score at 1-1 right before halftime, tapping in a rebound from McPartlan at 43:27
- Six of the last seven shots of the first half were by South Alabama
- Greulich almost gave the Trojans an early lead after halftime but hit the crossbar
- USA sophomore Ana Helmert forced LR goalkeeper Sara Johannsdottir to make saves three minutes apart at 71:18 and 74:09
- Arola Aparacio Gili scored the game winner after taking a loss pass from Morgan Smocovich and rounding the USA keeper
- Shots were tied at 15 apiece, with the Jags holding a narrow edge in shots on goal at 8-7
- South Alabama junior Justice Stanford made five saves; Johansdottir had seven

NOTES
- The game was delayed at the start due to lightning in the area
- Little Rock is coached by former South Alabama assistant Mark Foster
- The Trojans ended a nine-game losing streak to the Jaguars
- USA allowed multiple goals to a league opponent for the first time this season
- Cross now has two goals on the year to move into a four-way tie for second on the team
- McPartlan has a team-high-tying two assists and leads the Jags with eight points

THEY SAID IT
Head Coach Richard Moodie
On the loss: "We got off to a slow start but I felt that after we conceded the first goal, we got a reaction and got into the game. Tactically we made some adjustments and had the right players on. We finished the half and could have easily had gotten another one but went into the half 1-1 and had the upper hand for sure. The second half was no different. I don't know where the shot count came from but we didn't have them for any shots until we make another mistake that cost us a goal. That's been the story of the season – we can't capitalize on other team's mistakes and they capitalize on ours. We played fantastically and I told them after the game that we were the better team again, but nobody cares about that, they just care about the score. Long term, you care about what your team's putting out there. If we could have a goal scorer amongst us, we'd be a different team right now."

On the winning goal: "There was a long ball over the top and there was some miscommunication between our center back and our goalkeeper and their girl gets in between them. She hasn't done anything all game to pose a threat other than that one chance. It's demoralizing when you outplay a team. We didn't create that many good chances, to be honest. It's hard because we played so well and I'm running out of things to say to these girls other than, we'll go again. We have to take it like champions."

On Cross' goal: "It was a good time to score. I think the momentum swayed after we conceded. It shouldn't take a goal for us to get into the game, but to score right before the half, we had our tails up and we definitely had the better of them in the first half."

On conceding late: "It was a great strike. You can't give one of the most dangerous players on the field the ball and hope that nothing happens. We shoot ourselves in the foot a lot of times. There are games where we have to limit mistakes and not make many errors, and today would have been one of those games, but unfortunately we made a couple and it cost us. The difference Thursday is we made a couple of errors and Justice saved us. That's the difference."

UP NEXT
The Jaguars go to ULM Friday at 4 p.m.

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