PORTLAND, Ore.- In the first game of the season and the first of two West Coast games this weekend, UW-Oshkosh women's soccer opened the 2025 schedule at Lewis & Clark College (Ore.) on Friday (August 29).
 
In the first-ever meeting between the programs, UW-Oshkosh (0-0-1) outshot Lewis & Clark (0-0-1), 16-14, with 10 shots on goal to the Pioneers' eight. Both teams kicked corners three times in the 90 minutes while the Pioneers committed eight fouls to the Titans' seven and were offsides twice against Oshkosh's once.
 
Mallory Kerhin (Green Bay/Green Bay Southwest), who played all 90 minutes between the posts, faced 14 total shots and made a save seven of the eight times the ball was kicked on goal.
 
Alexa Schorr (Batavia, Ill./Batavia) tallied the Titans' goal in her only shot of the day. Ariana Gonzalez (Appleton/Appleton North) led the team with five shots (one on goal). All three of Gabby Born's (Fond du Lac/Fond du Lac) shots were on goal while Ryley Meenk (Waukesha/Waukesha South) shot twice with one on goal.
 
UW-Oshkosh's first scoring opportunity came in the fourth minute when Nadia Epshteyn (Cedarburg/Cedarburg) made an attempt at 3:20. Ariana Gonzalez (Appleton/Appleton North) then took four shots with two on goal across five minutes of play before the Pioneers made their first shot at 17:36.
 
Within 10 seconds past the halfway mark of the first half, Gabby Born (Fond du Lac/Fond du Lac) shot on goal twice, but the Lewis & Clark goalkeeper Anna Ingadottir was there to keep the ball out of the net both times.
 
Kerhin saved a shot with under a minute of play in the first half and another went wide right headed into halftime.
 
Three minutes into the second half, UW-Oshkosh was again the first team to make a shot, this time off the foot of Hannah Huntley (Hudson/Hudson) that went down as another save. Ella Duckmann (Elk Grove Village, Ill./Elk Grove), Meenk, and Gonzalez all shot over the following 13 minutes as the Titans dominated ball control before Schorr sent the ball into goal at 61:34 on assists from Greta Steines (Eau Claire/Eau Claire Memorial) and Addyson Knoebel (Appleton/Appleton West).
 
Just under a minute after Born's third shot on goal of the game, the Pioneers got on the board in the 71st minute after a corner kick.
 
Lewis & Clark outshot Oshkosh 5-3 down the stretch and both shot on goal twice including a Knoebel shot on goal to the bottom left corner of the net with 50 seconds left on the clock. Ingadottir made her ninth save of the day, preventing a late Oshkosh lead and sealing the Titans' second straight season-opening tie.
 
The Titans will wrap up their Oregon trip on Sunday (August 31) when they face Willamette University (Ore.), another first-time opponent at the Bearcats' Sparks Field in Salem at 11 a.m. Pacific Time (1 p.m. Central).