Box Score JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – A penalty kick by the Eagles of Carson-Newman College proved to be costly for the Queens University of Charlotte women's soccer team this evening as the Royals were edged 1-0 on the road. The loss gives the Royals a 5-3-2 South Atlantic Conference record and a 10-4-2 record on the season. The Eagles improve to 4-3-2 in the SAC clinging to the eighth place spot in the league. They are 6-5-3 on the year.
 
Having defeated the Eagles convincingly at the start of last season, 3-0, the Royals came into this evening's game with hopes of putting Carson-Newman away in the same fashion. However, both keepers, only interested in collecting clean sheets on the night, would make game plans for both teams difficult to execute.

The first half featured an evenly matched offensive attack on both ends of the field with the Eagles just edging the Royals in shots on goal, 5-4. However, that one extra shot would be costly for Queens as it, coming in the form of a penalty kick from Danna Stringle in the 33^rd minute, would give Carson-Newman a 1-0 lead that they would take into the break.
 
Both teams displayed much of the same action in the second, but it quickly became evident that the goalkeepers on each end were on missions to not let anything get past them. Every shot on goal in the half was turned away by either Jessyca Young of Queens or Tiarna McKenna of Carson-Newman.
 
Unfortunately for Queens, the penalty kick scored by the Eagles in the first half would become more and more haunting as time ticked off the clock. Senior forward Sarah Johnson's shot in the 84^th would be the final push from Queens to equalize the match, but McKenna was there to notch her eighth save of the day on the play.
 
Queens was outshot 19-12 this evening with each team taking eight shots apiece on goal. The Royals won nine corner kicks to the Eagles' four.
 
Young's record on the year moves to 9-3-1 after the junior tallied seven saves in goal.
 
The Royals will mix things up this week traveling to take on former conference foe Lees-McRae College on Wednesday at 5 p.m.