Women's Soccer Finishes In A 0-0 Deadlock With LeMoyne
Blue Devils Now 5-1-3 In The NEC
The CCSU women's soccer team closed out its 2025 regular season home schedule on Thursday night with a hard-fought 0-0 NEC draw against the visiting LeMoyne College Dolphins. Central outshot the visitors, 22-11, in the match and dominated the run of play in the second half with a 16-5 shot advantage, but LeMoyne goalkeeper Mikayla McPheron kept the Blue Devils off the scoreboard making a total of nine saves on the night. Thursday's tie keeps Central in the thick of the race for a spot in this season's NEC Championship Tournament, as the Blue Devils are now 5-1-3 in conference play and 5-5-4 overall. LeMoyne is now 0-12-4 overall and 0-5-3 in the NEC.
GAME INFORMATION | BOX SCORE
Score: CCSU 0 LeMoyne 0
Records: CCSU (5-5-4, 5-1-3 NEC), LeMoyne (0-12-4, 0-5-3 NEC)
Location: CCSU Soccer Field | New Britain, CT
KEY MOMENTS
- Thursday's first 45 minutes of action was an even affair, as the team went into the break scoreless, as both the teams had a total of six first half shots.
- Goalkeepers Melina Ford for CCSU and Mikayla McPheron for LeMoyne each made three saves in the first half.
- CCSU turned up the offensive pressure in half number two, as the Blue Devils dominated play taking 16 shots (six on goal) and taking six corners, but McPheron was up to the task for LeMoyne making a couple of top-notch saves to finish with a total of nine stops on the night and earn a draw for her team.
- Melina Ford made a total of five saves for the Blue Devils to notch her fourth clean sheet of 2025.
- Kayla Ward led CCSU with a total of five shots in the match; four of which came in the second half and three of which were on goal.
NUMBER TO KNOW
2-More remaining regular season matches for the CCSU women's soccer team.
NOTES
- Central finished Thursday's match with an 8-2 advantage in corners to go along with their 22-11 lead in shots.
- Kayla Ward with five and Riley Powers with four led the Blue Devils in shots versus LeMoyne.
- Thursday 0-0 tie marks the first time that CCSU has played a scoreless draw since September 15, 2019 when Central finished deadlocked at zeros at Seton Hall.
UP NEXT
- The Blue Devils wrap up the 2025 regular season with a pair of road matches, as Central travels to Stonehill this Sunday, October 26 for a 1:00 p.m. contest and completes its slate at Delaware State the following Sunday, November 2 at 4:00 p.m.
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