CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- The Chattanooga women's soccer team held on to claim its first Southern Conference win of the season, defeating Elon 2-1 at the North River Soccer Complex.

“It's always nice to get that first conference win,” Lady Mocs Head Coach J.D. Kyzer said. “We played the best team in the league Friday night in UNC Greensboro and then we come back today and get a win is huge for us.”

The Lady Mocs fell 4-1 to the Spartans in their SoCon opener.

The first score for the Lady Mocs came on an Elon own goal. Freshman Susanne Mader sent a corner kick into the fray for the Lady Mocs and it glanced off a defender and hit the bottom of the cross bar and landed just past the goal line to put UTC up 1-0 just before the half.

Chattanooga would net a second goal early in the second period. Freshman D.K. Henry took a pass from Katharina Rheinheimer up the middle and beat the defenders to go one-on-one with the Phoenix keeper Sydney Little at the 46:48 mark.

Several great saves were made by the Lady Mocs' freshman keeper Allie Preston as she had seven for the game.

“That save on the header on the cross was amazing,” Kyzer said. “She's going to stick around for a while and she's a great goalie. She just makes freshman mistakes and that's what we have to work on.”

The Phoenix had several scoring opportunities throughout the latter part of the second half and failed to convert as Chattanooga's defense thwarted the offensive effort.

The Lady Mocs improve to 4-6-1 on the year and 1-1 in league action while the Phoenix even out at 4-4-1 and fall to 0-2 in SoCon play. Chattanooga will be on the road to Georgia Southern Friday, Oct. 3 for a 7 p.m. match. Elon will host the College of Charleston in a 7 p.m. matchup on Friday as well.

Scoring Summary:

1. 40:52      UTC            Susanne Mader                                                 corner kick, own goal

2. 46:48      UTC            D.K. Henry (Katharina Rhienhiemer)

3. 65:17      ELON         Katina Boozer (Kerri Spears)