Sept. 10, 2005

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ATHENS, Ga. --- The Georgia women's soccer team (6-0-0) picked up its sixth win of the season after besting Pittsburgh (2-2-0) 2-0 at the UGA Soccer Complex on Friday night. The contest marked the first of Pitt's two Georgia Tournament games in Athens.

Georgia notched a pair of goals in the game with the first coming from junior defender Missy Vierling. Vierling's second goal of the season was also her second game-winner of the season. Senior forward Erin Sekerak netted the Bulldogs' second goal of the night early in the second half.

Vierling registered her team's first goal in the 12th minute after freshman midfielder Kathleen Howe collected a loose ball and fed it out to the left side where Vierling ran onto it. After facing up her defender and faking a shot with her left foot at the edge of the Panthers' penalty box, Vierling pulled it back across her body and ripped a left footed shot into the upper left hand corner of the goal past Pittsburgh goalkeeper Jamie Pelusi to give Georgia a 1-0 edge.

The Bulldogs went up 2-0 on Sekerak's third goal of the season. After a Pitt defender deflected a pass from Georgia's Kristin Garman that went over Pelusi's hands and toward the goal, Sekerak won the race to the ball and knocked it in to give the Bulldogs a 2-0 lead in the game's 46th minute.

Pitt managed just three shots on goal.

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