Ashley Kniffen scored in the 34th minute to lift the No. 21 Fort Lewis College women’s soccer team over Colorado Mesa 1-0 on Friday in Grand Junction.
Sam Weiss hit the post with a shot that Kniffen fired home off a rebound for her first goal of the season.
“We just had a lot of players getting forward, I think,” FLC head coach Damian Clarke said. “Some pretty dynamic movement.”
FLC (14-3, 10-3 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference) outshot Colorado Mesa (6-11, 5-8 RMAC) 14-7 in its fourth consecutive win.
Caitlyn Espinosa, the reigning RMAC Defensive Player of the Week, collected her 11th shutout, which leads the RMAC, and 13th win of the season.
The Skyhawks will host No. 2 Colorado Mines at 1 p.m. Sunday at Dirks Field in their final game of the regular season.
Colorado Mines currently sits atop the RMAC team standings, and the Orediggers defeated FLC 1-0 on Oct. 18.
“I think we’re getting better. We’ve gotten better every game since that last Mines game,” Clarke said. “We’re getting good at the right time. We know better than to be overly confident against an opponent as good as Mines.”
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