Kansas City Ends in Scoreless Draw at Missouri State

Friday, September 6

Springfield, Mo.

7:00 PM

Kansas City

4-0-0, 0-0-0

Missouri State

2-1-0, 0-0-0

Kansas City

Missouri St.

Kansas City Ends in Scoreless Draw at Missouri State

9/6/2019 10:17:00 PM | Women's Soccer

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – In its first road game of the season, Kansas City Women's Soccer (4-0-1) played to a 0-0 double overtime tie at Missouri State (2-1-1) tonight at Betty and Bobby Allison South Stadium. The Roos put on seven shots-on-goal compared to zero by Missouri State, but couldn't cash in against Bears goalkeeper Kaitlin Maxwell. The two OT contest, which ended with zero combined goals, is a Kansas City first since Oct. 14, 2016 in the 0-0 draw against Grand Canyon.

Sophomore forward Emily Jensen notched her first start of the year and took advantage with a season-high three shots-on-goal to lead the Roos offense. In fact, Jensen's attempt at the net in the 68^th minute was the final shot-on-goal in the contest for either team. In her previous four contests, she did not record a shot-on-target.

Four other Kansas City players finished with one shot-on-goal.

"I'm extremely proud of the girls and how everyone competed tonight in their first road trip against a Missouri Valley Conference team," said head coach Chris Cissell, who was not with the team for the first time in his nine-year Kansas City career due to a family emergency. "I want to give credit to associate head coach Jeff Cole for his leadership and putting together a solid game plan to come away with the hard-fought tie. Unfortunately, we didn't finish our chances tonight. We created some quality scoring opportunities and played good enough to remain undefeated."

Senior goalkeeper Erin Roth collected her second shutout in three starts this year and now holds a 0.31 goals against average this year (one goal allowed in 290 minutes). Overall, the Roos defense has tallied three shutouts in five matches this season.

Next Up:

The Roos travel to Des Moines, Iowa, to face Drake University (1-4-0) on Sunday at 1 p.m. CT.

Quick Hitters:

Kansas City stands undefeated this year (4-0-1) and is off to its best start in school history.
With the tie tonight, the Roos extended their streak to six-straight (5-0-1) undefeated decisions in non-conference contests. The last road loss against non-WAC opponents was at Illinois State on Sept. 29, 2017.
Tonight marked the first overtime game overall since Aug. 24, 2018 at Illinois-Chicago.
Kansas City moves to 2-7-2 overall in the series with the Bears, including 1-4-1 in Springfield.
With three shutouts to begin the year all coming against Missouri Valley Conference teams, the Roos have now compiled 13 shutouts through 26 games dating back to last year.
Dating back to the start of the 2018 season, the Roos now stand 12-3-1 in non-conference contests (not including WAC postseason tournament).
Kansas City was whistled for its first yellow card of the season.