{"id":190672,"date":"2025-09-01T03:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/190672\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T03:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:26:15","slug":"second-half-surge-pushes-troy-past-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/190672\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Half Surge Pushes Troy Past Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TROY, Ala.<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Two early second-half goals rocketed Troy to a 2-1 victory over Jacksonville at the Troy Soccer Complex.<\/p>\n<p>After a scoreless first half, the Trojans (4-2-0) broke through in the 49th minute on an own goal, as a Jacksonville defender deflected <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/megan-hamm\/10991\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10991\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Hamm&#8217;s<\/a> pass intended for <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/jiselle-daniels\/10970\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10970\" target=\"_blank\">Jiselle Daniels<\/a> into the net. Just three minutes later, Daniels doubled the advantage with her Sun Belt-best seventh goal of the season, finishing a pass from freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/isabella-hartofelis\/11546\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11546\" target=\"_blank\">Isabella Hartofelis<\/a>, who picked up the first assist of her career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville (2-2-0) cut the deficit in the 80th minute when Manuela Restrepo scored off an assist from Julia Deprat, but the Troy defense held them off in the final ten minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Troy goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/taylor-richards\/11687\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11687\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Richards<\/a> made three saves, including two in the first half, to secure the win. The Trojans were outshot 14-8 and recorded three shots on goal to Jacksonville&#8217;s four.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Trojans remain a perfect 3-0-0 at the Troy Soccer Complex this season and have surrendered just one goal at home this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notables<\/strong>\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/jiselle-daniels\/10970\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10970\" target=\"_blank\">Jiselle Daniels<\/a> scored a goal for the fifth consecutive match. She&#8217;s the first Trojan since Alissa Jones in 2008 with a five-match goal streak.\u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Daniels leads the Sun Belt in goals (7), points (14) and shots on goal (16) and is tied for the Sun Belt lead in game-winning goals (3).\u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/isabella-hartofelis\/11546\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11546\" target=\"_blank\">Isabella Hartofelis<\/a> recorded her first career assist on Daniels&#8217; game-winning goal.\u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/taylor-richards\/11687\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11687\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Richards<\/a> improved to 4-1-0 on the season, recording three saves and allowing one goal. Her .800 goals against average ranks fourth in the Sun Belt.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quotables<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>\nHead Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/coaches\/stuart-gore\/1857\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1857\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Gore<\/a> on the defense\u2026<br \/>\n&#8220;I thought we were disciplined, and that&#8217;s what I asked them to be. The intensity was great. The goal we gave up, we just switched off a little bit, but all in all, I couldn&#8217;t be more proud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gore on responding to Thursday&#8217;s loss\u2026<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;To bounce back against a team that&#8217;s going to do really well in their conference &#8211; that&#8217;s already beaten Georgia Southern 4-1, at Georgia Southern. A team in our conference that&#8217;s always a great team &#8211; it just shows great resilience from the girls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/jiselle-daniels\/10970\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10970\" target=\"_blank\">Jiselle Daniels<\/a> on scoring another goal\u2026<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;I definitely feel good. It&#8217;s just my role for the team, so I definitely have to show up in that way. Once you get a couple, they keep coming, so hopefully that continues for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Up<\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Trojans are back at the Troy Soccer Complex on September 7 against Mississippi Valley State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TROY, Ala.\u00a0&#8211; Two early second-half goals rocketed Troy to a 2-1 victory over Jacksonville at the Troy Soccer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-190672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115126913131878182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}