49ers Rout Azusa Pacific 5-0

49ers Rout Azusa Pacific 5-0, Exhibition
Kiefer Scores Two, Bullock A Goal and Two Assists, Myers Two Assists

August 23, 2007

WOMEN'S SOCCER	1	2	OT1	OT2	F	RECORDS
Azusa Pacific	0	0	-	-	0	--
Long Beach St.	4	1	-	-	5	--
Shots: LBSU-16, APU-4; Corners: APU-4, LBSU-7; Fouls: APU-10, LBSU-11; Offsides-none Goals: Kristen Kiefer, LBSU (2:30, A: Lindsay Bullock); Kristen Kiefer, LBSU (17:48, A: Nicki Myers, Lindsay Bullock); Kim Silos, LBSU (36:19, A: Myers); Bullock, LBSU (44:30, A: unassisted); Silos, LBSU (54:22, A: unassisted)
GOALIE SAVES: Jill Colfer-Martinson, APU (3 saves, 5 GA); Breanna Truelove, LBSU (0 save, 0 GA); Emily Kingsborough, LBSU (2 saves, 0 GA); Liz Ramos, LBSU (0 saves, 0 GA)

LONG BEACH, CA-- If it would have counted, No. 25-ranked Long Beach State would have been a single goal shy of a school-record. Instead, the 49ers, coming off a school-record 14-5-1 season and picked to win the Big West Conference for the second straight year, defeated Azusa Pacific, the top team in the NAIA, 5-0 in a scrimmage on Thursday afternoon.

Freshman Kristen Kiefer scored the first two goals for the 49ers, in the first 18 minutes, while Lindsay Bullock had a goal and two assists as the program's 27th-ranked recruiting class tallied 10 of the possible 14 points. Junior Kim Silos, the Big West's Offensive Player of the Year, added two goals.

Emily Kingsborough, a top-100 recruit, made both saves in net. Both came within a minute of one another with 35 minutes left in the contest. She was one of three goalkeepers to play for the 49ers on the day.

APU, which was ranked No. 1 at the end of last year's NAIA season and are the top team out of the West this year, managed just one first half shot and five for the contest, as the 49ers outshot the Cougars 16-to-4. In the previous two years, both exhibitions, the 49ers tied APU 1-1 and lost to the Cougars 1-0. They went on to win 26 games during the regular season.

Kiefer started the scoring in the third minute, benefitting from a Silos corner kick to head a pass from Bullock in at 2:30. Fifteen minutes later Kiefer scored again, taking a pass from redshirt freshman Nicki Myers for one of her two assists, and heading another one in off of Bullock at 17:48. Silos then found the back of the net scoring on a cross from Myers from 15 yards out to make it 3-0 in the 37th minute. Bullock finished off the first half scoring scoring on an unassisted header at 44:30.

Silos completed the scoring with a tally form 25 yards out off of goalkeeper Jill Colfer-Martinson at 54:22.

The 49ers open the season at CS Bakersfield on Friday, before hosting Utah in a breakfast edition match at 9 a.m. on Sunday, September 2.

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Players Mentioned

Lindsay Bullock

Kristen Kiefer

Emily Kingsborough

Liz Ramos

Kim Silos

Breanna Truelove

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