The Citadel Stuns Samford on Yosue Goal

Friday, September 23

Birmingham, AL

7 P.M. ET

The Citadel

6-3-0, 1-0-0

Samford University

4-3-3, 0-1-0

Team	1	2	Final F
The Citadel	0	1	1
Samford	0	0	0

The Citadel Stuns Samford on Yosue Goal

9/23/2022 9:40:00 PM | Soccer

Box Score

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. – The Citadel opened Southern Conference play Friday night by stunning defending conference champion Samford, 1-0, at Yelton Field. Suzuka Yosue scored the game-winning goal in the 71st minute off a feed from Zoey Conrad.

The victory gave head coach Ciaran Traquair his 48th win with the Bulldogs, making him the school's all-time winningest coach. He surpassed Bob Winch (2006-15) for the honor. It also marked just the second win over Samford in 19 meetings.

Game Information
Score: The Citadel 1, Samford 0
Records: The Citadel (6-3) SoCon (1-0-0), Samford (4-3-3) SoCon (0-1-0)
Location: Shauna Yelton Field (Birmingham, AL.)
All-Time Series: Samford leads 2-16-1

How it Happened

71' Suzuka Yosue received the ball from teammate Zoey Conrad, then unleashed a shot from outside the opposition's box, beyond the reach of Samford's Morgan McAslan, finding the bottom left corner of the goal

Inside the Box Score

Jess Newton made her second start of the season, and second clean sheet, making six saves.
Ashley Frank and Mackenzie DePriest-Kessler were tied for a game-high of three shots each.
Suzuka Yosue added to her tallies of the season, now standing at three goals, six assists and 12 points, ranking first on the team.
Zoey Conrad's assist gives her four for the week.
The Citadel had two shots on goal versus Samford's six.

Close chances

15' Newton made a crucial save as a cross found Samford's Mary Raymond inside the six-yard box who headed it towards the right corner of the goal.
34' Maggie Melogy made a well-timed run with a through ball from Suzuka Yosue, Samford's keeper Morgan McAslan just beat Melogy to the ball.
50' Ashley Frank fired a shot from outside the box, forcing McAslan to make the save.
51' Samford's set piece led to a header just over The Citadel's crossbar.
53' Newton made another save with a shot from Samford's Taylor Yount.
58' Kristi Jones found herself 1v1 with McAslan who was just able to block the close-range shot.
66' Samford's Caroline Donovan made it on the end of a dangerous cross, Jess Newton making a save.
81' Frank fired another shot, just going wide of goal.
83' Ryleigh Jenkins almost found the back of the net, her shot too strong and just over the bar.