BATON ROUGE, La. – A second half surge helped Howard's women's soccer team shutout Southern University, 4-0, on Sunday afternoon at Jaguar Park.
With the win, the Bison move to 5-0-1 in Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) play. Howard is currently on a four-game winning streak.
HU (7-3-2 overall) took a season-high 21 shots, while holding the Jaguars to just three shots. Junior Gabrielle Emilien got her fourth straight start of the season in goal and tallied a pair of saves. The Bison forced Southern's Victoria Mendes to make eight saves.
Junior Kela Gray notched her fourth goal in six games when she beat the keeper to put Howard up 1-0 at the 11:15 mark.
The Bison attempted 10 shots and did not allow the Jaguars to take a single shot in the first 45 minutes.
Howard went on a scoring barrage late in the second half.
Junior Noelle McCullom scored both of her goals in less than four minutes. To start, Emilien executed a perfect goal kick to McCullom, who put the ball in the bottom left corner. On the next go around, McCullom came up with a put-back to extend the lead to 3-0.
In the 83rd minute, senior Carmen Suarez slid classmate Jaelin White the ball and White pushed it past the keeper for the final 4-0 tally. It was her first goal of the season.
Howard is back in action on Tuesday, Oct. 11 when it hosts Navy at 7 p.m. in Greene Stadium.
