Cooper, Blue Devils Net, 3-1, Road Win at No. 6 TCU

Sunday, September 4

Fort Worth, Texas

8 P.M.

Duke University

5-1-0, 0-0-0

TCU

3-2-1, 0-0-0

Duke

TCU

Photo by: Gregg Ellman

Cooper, Blue Devils Net, 3-1, Road Win at No. 6 TCU

9/4/2022 11:11:00 PM | Women's Soccer

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FORT WORTH, Texas – Sophomore Michelle Cooper collected a brace on Sunday evening at sixth-ranked TCU to help lead second-ranked Duke women's soccer to a 3-1 road victory in front of a record crowd of 3,648 fans at Garvey-Rosenthal Soccer Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas.

With the victory, the Blue Devils improved to 5-1 on the season and collected their second win against a ranked opponent. TCU dropped to 3-2-1 on the year.

How It Happened
•   At the 10:25 mark, Duke took a 1-0 lead. Michelle Cooper grabbed the ball just before midfield and drove all the way down into the box, beating numerous Horned Frogs defenders. Cooper then slipped the ball in-between TCU goalkeeper Lauren Kellett's legs for her fourth goal this season and 16th of her career.
•   Blue Devil goalkeeper Ruthie Jones came up big at the 19:31 mark as she made a key save to her left off a shot from TCU's Olivia Hasler.
•   At the half, TCU held a 7-6 advantage in shots marking the second straight match Duke has been outshot in the first half.
•   Ruthie Jones finished the first half with a season-high three saves and went on to finish the contest with five for the match.
•   Jones started the second half with another key save with her left hand at the 47:07 mark off a TCU shot from Camryn Lancaster. Jones deflected the ball over the top of the goal.
•   Cooper put the Blue Devils ahead, 2-0, at the 53:03 as she beat the TCU keeper to the ball, went around Kellett and had a wide-open net.
•   Duke caught the Horned Frogs keeper out of the goal again in the 60:08 mark as Cooper played a ball to freshman Devin Lynch, who launched a long feed down the pitch to a streaking freshman Kat Rader. Rader beat the goalkeeper to the ball and finished easily in the net to put Duke ahead, 3-0.
•   TCU was able to break through in the 68th minute off a corner kick to cut the score to 3-1. Lauren Memoly found the back of the net.
•   The Blue Devils finished the match with a 13-12 shot advantage.

Notes
•   Michelle Cooper scored for the fourth straight game and has now collected at least one point in 19-of-23 career matches played.
•   Cooper now owns three multi-goal games over her career and the first of her sophomore season.
•   Freshman Kat Rader scored her third goal over the last four matches.
•   Duke has scored 14 goals over the last five matches with Cooper back on the field.
•   With her 90 minutes played on the night, graduate student Delaney Graham moved into seventh place on Duke's all-time minutes played list with 7,327:02 minutes.
•   Freshman Carina Lageyre made her first collegiate start in her third collegiate contest.
•   With the three goals, Duke has scored in 19 straight matches, which is the fourth-longest streak in school history.
•   After allowing only six corner kicks by opponents over the first five matches, TCU totaled 11 for the contest. Duke had a season-low one corner kick.

Quotes
"It is a huge, huge win to bounce back. It is such a funny game. We had the ball and we were so good on Thursday night against UCLA and we lose the game. Now, we come here; we don't have the ball much. We battled and gutted it out and win 3-1. This is a crazy sport, but we are very, very happy to have the win the win." – Duke head coach Robbie Church

Next Match
Duke will return home on Thursday, Sept. 8 to host top-ranked North Carolina at 8 p.m., live on ACC Network from Koskinen Stadium.

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