Women's Soccer: Mountaineers Ready for Home Opener
August 31, 2006 09:36 AM | General
August 31, 2006
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| Kim Bonilla |
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The No. 18 West Virginia University women’s soccer team will face the Western Michigan Broncos on Friday, Sept. 1, at 7 p.m., at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium in the 2006 home opener.
It will mark the first time that WVU has ever faced the Broncos in women’s soccer history. The Mountaineers are 9-1 all-time in home-opening games and have won six straight dating back to 1999.
WVU also plays non-conference opponent Binghamton at home on Sunday, Sept. 3, at 12:30 p.m. WVU owns the all-time series with the Bearcats, winning the schools’ two previous meetings in 2003 and 2004.
The Mountaineers (2-0) capped off a perfect weekend at the James Madison Invitational with a 5-1 win over host James Madison in Harrisonburg, Va., on Sunday. Trailing 1-0, WVU scored five goals in the game’s final 20 minutes to down the Dukes and tie with Rutgers for the best record at the tournament. West Virginia’s five second half goals was the most it has scored in a game since defeating Radford 5-0, on Oct. 22, 2004.
Junior forward Kim Bonilla was named Top Drawer Soccer’s national player of the week for her efforts at the JMU Invitational. Bonilla gave the Mountaineers a spark off the bench in both games as she scored two goals and tallied three assists on the weekend.
West Virginia enters the weekend ranked No. 18 in the NSCAA poll, No. 12 in the Soccer America poll and No. 12 in Soccer Buzz’s weekly poll.
