PUEBLO, Colo. – The MSU Denver women's soccer team hung up yet another clean sheet on Thursday night, defeating CSU Pueblo 2-0 to improve to 3-0 in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play.
The Roadrunners, 4-1-4 overall, posted their eighth shutout in nine games this season, including three in a row in league play. MSU Denver has 37 shutouts in 66 games since
Kat Mertz became head coach for the 2021 season.
Kylie Bach had three saves – three more than the reigning RMAC Goalkeeper of the Week had last week – while posting her 24
th career shutout. Bach needs one more shutout to tie Becca Maloney (2007-08) and Erica Torres (2016-19) for third in program history.
Only Concordia-Irvine (Calif.), which turned in a seventh straight clean sheet Thursday while improving to 6-0-1, has shut out opponents at a higher rate than the Roadrunners this season.
Sixth-year senior defender
Maddy Rueter scored her first career goal to put the Roadrunners ahead at 34:01 as she floated a high free kick from roughly 40 yards away over the heads of players in front and into the corner of the goal.
The Roadrunners got the brace early in the second half at 47:58, after a sequence of passes put the ball at
Tessa Killmon's feet in the box, and the senior forward fired it home for her first goal of the season and the sixth of her career.
Meg Gonzalez and
Isa Durkin picked up assists on the play.
Currently alone in first place in the RMAC with nine points (three other teams have six points but have only played two league games), MSU Denver plays Sunday at traditional power UCCS, the 2023 national quarterfinalists who have lost four straight games to drop to a surprising 2-5-2 and 0-3.
