The Lady Owls won their third straight match on Monday night when they blanked visiting Gladwin Skeels Christian, 7-0.  Three Owls scored their first career goals on Monday.  Freshman Dani Griffin, Sophomore Kelli Lehman and Senior Jodie Astrom all hammered home their first ever scores.  Jodie becomes the third Senior this year to finally get her first Varsity tally.  Team leaders, Tricia McDonald and Rushelle Sidebottom scored twice each to round out the goals. 

Dani netted the first goal of the night when Erika Nolff slid a nice thru pass right up the middle of the defense.  Dani ran on the ball and cleanly nailed it into the goal in the 6th minute.  Tricia picked up a bouncing ball that was loose in the box and she put it away for Oscoda's second goal at the 14 minute mark.  Tricia feed the ball across the box to Rushelle in the 28th minute to end the first half scoring and giving the Owls the 3-0 halftime lead.

The second half got under way and Kelli took a nice pass from Aubrey Thurston and blasted it past the diving Skeel's keeper in the 60th minute.  Two minutes later Nolff picked up her second assist of the match when she hit a streaking Tricia for a goal.  Aubrey feed Rushelle her 5th of the year in the 66th minute.  Jodie finished the Oscoda barage with four minutes to play when she partnered up with Kayla Young who earned an assist.  Oscoda fired 28 shots on goal.  Skeels managed four good quality shots, all in the first half, that keeper Margaret Negro handled.  They failed to get off a shot in the second half as the Owls controlled all the ball time.  Tricia went in the goal for the last 14 minutes but never touched the ball.

Erika led the defense with 8 steals and 5 intercepts.  Katia Kotula flipped that total and earned 5 steals and 8 intercepts.   Also playing well on the back line was Kelbie Clarke and Courtney Stagg.  Many of the bench players saw plenty of field time on Monday.

The Owls travel to Tawas on Wednesday to face off with the Braves and a chance to get to .500 on the season.  The Owls pushed their record to 4-5 overall and stayed at 3-4 in NEMC play due to Skeels being a non-conference foe.