JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 2, 2025) - Second verse, same as the first. The Bucs played the hits on Thursday night.
The ETSU women's soccer team kicked off October by extending their school-record unbeaten streak to nine games with a 3-0 thumping of Wofford at Summers-Taylor Stadium. Reagan Fitzgerald, Jada Cooper, and Abbey Hayberg all found the scoresheet for ETSU while Addison Yelton collected her sixth shutout of 2025.
The Buccaneers (8-2-3, 3-0-1) wasted no time gaining the upper hand on the reeling Terriers (3-7-4, 0-3-1). Ruby Teixeira zipped a corner kick across the mouth of the goal where Fitzgerald got a running start and charged at it with a header to put it in the roof of the net in the fifth minute. It was Fitzgerald's ninth goal of 2025 - the most by a Buccaneer since 2017 - and the 16th goal of her ETSU career, tying her with Sarah Connolly for 10th most in ETSU history.
Hayberg entered the game as a substitute for Teixeira in the 27th minute, and 31 seconds into her shift, Fitzgerald fed her a pass in stride down the left wing. The freshman tore down the left side with room to run, then pulled up with a head-and-shoulder fake that froze Wofford right back Mary Liese Grier, giving Hayberg just enough space to push the ball low to the back post for her first collegiate goal.
Just over a minute later, Wofford broke free for their best chance of the night. Julia Grier got a sliver of daylight down the right wing and flung a cross back into the box that bounced through to Delaney Minor. Minor tried to zip a shot past Yelton, but the goalkeeper got a boot to it and beat two Terriers to the rebound to smother out the opportunity and keep the Bucs comfortably ahead going into the half.
ETSU put an exclamation point on the night in the 67th, when good interplay by Alex Beck and Taryn Childers left Childers in space on the right corner of the box. Fitzgerald feathered Childers' cross to an unmarked Coooper, and the sophomore struck it first time and kissed it off the left post for her third goal and 12th point in five games.
The Bucs dominated the shot counter, 14-3, and won shots on goal 8-1. They have beaten Wofford in three consecutive meetings, a first in program history, and outscored them 10-1 over those three wins.
The win paired with other results leaves ETSU tied with Samford for first place in the SoCon through four of nine scheduled games. The Bucs host archrival Chattanooga Sunday at 1:00pm. Admission is free.
For more information on ETSU women's soccer, go to ETSUBucs.com.
