LEXINGTON, Va - The women's soccer team headed into today's contest with Coastal Carolina having one three of their last four, but were unable to keep that momentum going as they dropped a tough 2-0 decision to the visiting Chanticleers.

Coastal freshman striker Blair Monroe netted her Big South Conference-best 12th goal of the season in the second half to seal the victory for Coastal Carolina (9-3). The goal puts her two in front of VMI's Colleen Redmond, who trails with ten on the season. This is also just the fourth game of the season in which Redmond has not recorded a point. The Keydets are 1-3 when this happens.

"(Despite the outcome) I am very happy with how our team performed today," said head coach Bryan Williams. "I thought we tactically played a good game against them. We were able to keep their two quality players a little out of the action, which helped keep us in the game."

The loss dropped the Keydets to 0-2 in Big South Conference play, but certainly served as a confidence builder for VMi, and showed that they can perform with the best teams in the Big South Conference.

"I think we can be competitive with a majority of the teams in conference. We just have to get our playmakers going in these games, and need to keep the same intensity and we will have a shot to win most games."

Both goalkeepers had outstanding performances in today's contest as VMI keeper Jessica Rheinlander came up seven big saves while Chanticleer junior Jaclyn Stoll has a season-high eight saves.

"I am real complimentary of the play of our backs today," added Williams. "Jessica Dick, Megan Strand and others did an awesome job limiting their opportunities."

The Keydets (5-6) managed to come up with 12 shots on the day (eight on goal), but couldn't manage to get one past the Lady Chats' keeper.

VMI and Coastal headed into the match today with the top two offenses in the conference, ranking as first and second in shots, goals, assists and points-per-game in the Big South. The two teams put up 32 total shots in the contest, but only resulted in two goals.

"J.R. (Jessica Rheinlander) did a great job in making a couple of tough plays look easy for us," noted Williams. "We knew we were playing a couple of forwards who've been hot, and being able to limit them to one goal was certainly a positive and somewhat of a success. JR is a little banged up from previous games, but she still stood in their and did a great job for us."

Junior midfielder Kristine Kingsbury started things off for Coastal Carolina as she lifted a shot from the right side of the goal over Rheinlander's head for the first score of the game. The shot came off a nice feed from junior defender Leah Hackmann.

VMI looks to get back to its winning way's as they host non-conference opponent Southern Virginia back at Patchin Field on Monday, October 3. Game time is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.