Schieber’s Game-Winner Lifts Baker Past Culver-Stockton, 3-2

BALDWIN CITY - Emma Schieber scored the game-winning goal in the 81st minute to give Baker women's soccer a 3-2 victory over Culver-Stockton in a hard-fought conference battle on Saturday night in Baldwin City.

After C-SC scored its second game-tying goal in the 77th, Schieber put the home-sided Wildcats up for good just a few minutes later for their second win against a Heart opponent this season.

Finishing the game with a pair of assists, Lydia Brinker came up with the ball in the C-SC box and quickly found Schieber cutting towards goal and the senior forward flicked a one-touch shot for her sixth goal of 2024.

Looking at the stat sheet, Culver-Stockton seemed to be the team in control with a 17-10 advantage in shots and a big 13-2 discrepancy in corner kicks, but Baker made the most of its six shots on goal with half of them finding the back of the net.

With C-SC failing to score off its five corner kicks in the first 20 minutes, it was a free kick that led to BU's opening goal as Caitlin Youles blasted an incredible long-range bomb from 30-yards out to the top-left corner to give Baker a 1-0 lead.

It was the second goal of the season for Youles, who converted Baker's only penalty kick of the year so far with one against McPherson back in August.

Culver-Stockton sent the game to a halftime deadlock though with a goal in the 41st minute.

In the second half, Sidney Claeys put the 'Cats on top again 15 minutes into the action with a barreling coast-to-coast run by Brinker setting Claeys up in the box. Claeys made a nice juke to come 1v1 with the goalie and snuck a tight-window shot through to make it a 2-1 lead for BU.

Baker clung to the lead for the next 13 minutes until a costly turnover in the BU backline allowed C-SC to knot the game once again at 2-2 before Schieber's heroic moment erased the error and gave Baker its first win at home this season.

Scoring three or more goals in three of its four wins this year, BU has scored exactly three goals twice against a conference opponent after defeating William Penn by a score of 3-0 last week.

With a 2-1 start to Heart play, Baker closes out its three-game homestand with a matchup against No. 6 Central Methodist on Saturday, Sept. 28 at 5 p.m. at Hartley Field.

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