Jewell's Big Day Propels the Lady Pioneers in Scrimmage Versus Northwood

Madison Jewell and Skylar Eckert lead way

August 21, 2017

The Lady Pioneers played their lone pre-season contest on Monday the same way they did each of the last four seasons as they traveled to Midland to scrimmage Northwood University. However, for the first time in those five seasons, the outcome landed in favor of the Lady Pioneers.

Sophomore Madison Jewell had a stellar day for Delta picking up four assists in the game, the first of which led to a goal by freshman Skylar Eckert. Following a gorgeous pass from Jewell, Eckert was left one-on-one with the Timberwolf goalkeeper. Eckert's secod goal of the game came courtesy of a "right place, right time" play as she was able to score after the hustle from fellow Freshman Casey Allessie. Allessie was able to chase down a deflected ball and set up Eckert for the score. Allessie later picked up a goal of her own thanks to Jewell sending a long service across the field where Allessie was able to beat her defender and launch the ball over the head of the goalie in the far post corner.

Jewell's excellent day of passing continued as she also set up fellow sophomores, Taylor Farrand and Paige Renshaw on goals. Farrand scored after Jewell sent another long pass into the zone allowing her to chip the ball over the keeper. Renshaw collected a Jewell pass and broke through the final line of defenders to beat the keeper low and record her lone goal in the game.

Another Freshman, Kaitlyn Viaene, also scored off a feed from Jessie McInnis who redirected a Madison Tweddle corner kick and set Viaene up to score on a shot to the low near post corner.

"I was extremely impressed with the effort and execution of these young ladies," Head Coach Paul Stenglein said after the game. "They worked hard to maintain possession against a dangerous Northwood squad and came out victorious."

In net, freshman Kalyn Breckenridge recorded a clean sheet in her 50 minutes of action coming up with big saves along the way. Her great play in the net for the Lady Pioneers allowed the offense to play more aggressive and get the 6-1 win.

Delta will look to carry the momentum from the scrimmage into their season opening game as well as the first contest in MCCAA play. They will travel to Lake Michigan on Thursday to take on the Red Hawks in Benton Harbor. The Pioneers swept both contests from Lake Michigan in 2016 and own a 5-2-1 all time advantage in four seasons.