JACKSONVILLE, Ala. –\u00a0Troy soccer fell to Jacksonville State\u00a0in a back-and-forth affair on Sunday evening, 4-3.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
After conceding the\u00a0first two goals, the Trojans rallied to tie the match at three apiece in the second half before Michelle Hochstadt reclaimed the lead for the Gamecocks with a goal in the 85th minute.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jacksonville State’s Emma Reeder opened the scoring in the fifth minute, sending a shot from the left edge of the box off the underside of the crossbar and into the back of the net. The goal was the quickest scored by either team in a Troy\u00a0match\u00a0this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It took the Gamecocks just five minutes to find another goal, this time coming off a corner kick. The ball fell to Jax State’s Sunny Ferren, whose\u00a0initial\u00a0shot was blocked by Troy’s Brooke Slater<\/a>. However, the ball bounced right back to Ferren, who\u00a0fired it into the back of the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n Troy’s\u00a0first offensive chance ended in a goal, as an 18th-minute free kick from Brooke Slater<\/a> bounced off a Gamecock and fell to Imani Hamilton<\/a>, who muscled in a shot underneath two Jax State defenders. The goal, Hamilton’s\u00a0first career goal, made the\u00a0score\u00a02-1 Jax State.\u00a0<\/p>\n It was not long before the Gamecocks scored their third goal of the\u00a0first half, as Evie Underhill perfectly placed a bouncing volley into the top-right corner of the goal just three minutes later.\u00a0<\/p>\n Troy’s second goal of the day came in the 24th minute. Following a scrum on the edge of the box, the ball fell to\u00a0first-year Mallorie Springs<\/a>, who used a left-footed strike to\u00a0fire the ball into the right corner for the\u00a0first goal of her collegiate career.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rebecca Sierra-Burciaga nearly gave Jacksonville State its fourth goal of the\u00a0first half on two occasions, dribbling down the field before turning and\u00a0firing\u00a0toward goal. Moments later, she put a curling ball toward the far post, but Richards was there yet again. The fifth-year keeper made three\u00a0first-half saves, and the scoreline remained 3-2 at the break.\u00a0<\/p>\n The second half was the opposite\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0first, as goals became\u00a0hard to come by. Jax State took six shots within the\u00a0first 15 minutes of the second\u00a0half;\u00a0however,\u00a0none found the target.\u00a0<\/p>\n That changed in the 70th minute, as Troy tied the game for the\u00a0first time since the fifth minute when Alaina Uncapher<\/a> scored her\u00a0first goal of the season. Brooke Slater<\/a> assisted on the goal, delivering a brilliant ball from a set piece.\u00a0<\/p>\n Brooke Becker<\/a> had a chance in the 79th minute, as her second shot of the season narrowly missed the\u00a0frame\u00a0above the crossbar.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Gamecocks’\u00a0advantage\u00a0in second-half shots finally paid off in the 85th\u00a0minute, as a corner kick from Hochstadt\u00a0found the back of the net for a game-winning\u00a0Olympico\u00a0goal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n One final chance for\u00a0the Trojans came in the closing seconds of the match,\u00a0as a ball from midfield delivered by Hamilton narrowly missed the outstretched boot of Isabella\u00a0Hartfofelis. The final whistle then blew, giving Jacksonville State the 4-3 win.\u00a0<\/p>\n Quotable \u2013 Head\u00a0Coach Jake Wyman\u00a0<\/p>\n “Jax State wanted it more in every phase. They were decisive and we got what we deserved in the end.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nNotables\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThird-year Imani Hamilton<\/a> and\u00a0first-year Mallorie Springs<\/a> scored their\u00a0first career goals\u00a0in the\u00a0first half.\u00a0
\n\tAlaina Uncapher’s<\/a> second-half goal was the third of her career. Brooke Slater<\/a>\u00a0assisted\u00a0on the goal, marking the fourth assist of her career.\u00a0
\n\tThe\u00a0seven\u00a0goals between the two teams\u00a0tied\u00a0mark\u00a0for most\u00a0goals in a match\u00a0in the all-time series between the two teams. The\u00a0Trojans fell 7-0 to the Gamecocks on Oct. 12, 1997.\u00a0
\n\tThe five goals scored in the\u00a0first half were the most in a half in a Troy match since Oct. 2, 2025, when the Trojans and Old Dominion combined for five goals in the second half, with Troy holding a 3-2\u00a0advantage. It was the\u00a0most\u00a0first-half\u00a0goals\u00a0in a Troy match since the Trojans scored five in the opening 45 minutes of a 9-0 win at Jackson State on Aug. 27, 2017.\u00a0
\n\tTroy is\u00a0now\u00a07-12-2\u00a0all-time against\u00a0Jacksonville State.\u00a0
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\nUp Next\u00a0
\nTroy begins a three-match homestand on Friday, Sept. 4, hosting Kennesaw State at the Troy Soccer Complex with kickoff\u00a0set\u00a0for 5 p.m. and streaming on ESPN+.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ala. –\u00a0Troy soccer fell to Jacksonville State\u00a0in a back-and-forth affair on Sunday evening, 4-3.\u00a0\u00a0 After conceding the\u00a0first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-385701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}