Box Score

LAWRENCEVILLE - Saturday's weather conditions may have featured a wind chill in the mid-30s at Grizzly Soccer Complex, but not even that could cool down the form of the Georgia Gwinnett women's soccer team as Nikki LeFevre netted her ninth goal of the season to lead the Grizzlies 1-0 past Truett-McConnell.

With the victory, the Green and Gray move to 9-5-2 on the year and will go into the final week of the regular season riding a season-best seven-match unbeaten streak. Truett-McConnell dropped to 8-5-5.

The Grizzlies spent the entire first half playing into a strong wind, but still managed to spend much of the period on the front foot. The deadlock was eventually broken in the 22nd minute as LeFevre cut in from the right side and finished past a diving Anna Scogin for the match's lone score.

"I think we played some really good soccer in the first half, even with the way that wind was blowing," GGC Head Coach Domenic Martelli said. "Nikki scored a really nice goal, and we had a few more chances. We could've played a better second half, but you take the win and now we'll try and fine-tune a few things for next week."

Over the course of the seven-match unbeaten streak, GGC has now outscored its opponents by a 27-2 margin and LeFevre has been the talisman over the stretch, scoring six times and assisting two others to run her season totals to nine and three, respectively.

The Grizzlies would continue to test the TMC defense as Georgia Barton hit the crossbar once, and Mary Vernetti put a shot off the post. Scogin, who played all 90 minutes in goal for the Lady Bears, finished the day with four saves.

Her GGC counterpart, Magaly Gutierrez, went the full 90 as well, recording a save and picking up her second clean sheet of the season.

The Grizzlies will return to action next weekend as GGC will host its first-ever homecoming. Both the men and the women will be in action at Grizzly Soccer Complex, with the 13th-ranked men kicking things off against Bob Jones at 1 p.m. and the women following up vs. Middle Georgia at 4 p.m.

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