Box Score

JACKSONVILLE – For the second consecutive Friday, the Jacksonville State soccer team was pushed to double overtime, but the result was the same as JSU topped Alabama State, 2-1, at the JSU Soccer Field.

The Gamecocks turned in a season-high 41 shots and the most since Jax State recorded a school-record 61 shots against ASU during the 2008 season.  The 41st shot was the game winner off the foot of sophomore Katt Dowd.  With just over a minute left in the contest, Dowd booted a deep ball from 30 yards out from the left side of the goal with it sailing over the Lady Hornets' keeper, Courtney Ledonne.  The golden goal was Dowd's second of her career.

ASU scored its first-ever goal against the Gamecocks as it scored the match's first goal in the 31st minute.  The twin sister duo of Aaliyah and Ariela Lewis produced the Lady Hornets' lone goal.  Aaliyah dribbled past th JSU defense after taking the feed from her sister and sent the ball into the right corner of the net.

Jax State scored the equalizing goal three minutes later as sophomore Kristen Hoo registered her first goal in a Gamecock uniform.  Hoo, a transfer from West Virginia Wesleyan, took a cross from Nicola Dominikovich and turned in a perfect touch past the ASU keeper.

Both teams went in to intermission knotted up at 1-all and that score would remain for the next 73 minutes before the game-winning goal by JSU.  The Gamecocks had ample scoring chances in the first 45 minutes with half of their shots in the opening half.  Jax State tallied 12 in the second 45 and eight in the extra session.  ASU, who finished with 13 shots, was limited to four in the first half, but poured in nine combined in the second half and overtime.

Sophomore Kelsey Bright was credited with a game-high 12 shots, which is the most since Christina Balint carded 16 against ASU during the 2006 contest between the two schools.  Balint's 16 shots is also an Ohio Valley Conference record.  Junior Jackie Rush, who leads the OVC in shots taken, added to her season's mark with eight shots and five on goal chances.  Junior Lindsey Jackson and sophomore Brianna Boutziouvis finished with five shots each.

JSU, who remained perfect at home with the ASU win, looks to continue that trend with its first home Sunday contest of 2013.  The Gamecocks will close out the non-conference schedule with a 2 p.m. duel with Georgia State.  GSU fell to Samford, 4-2, on Friday evening in Birmingham.