NORFOLK, Va. – The Old Dominion women’s soccer team (7-4-4, 4-2-2 C-USA) fell to No. 23 nationally ranked Rice (11-2-1, 8-0-0 C-USA) by a 7-2 score on Thursday night at the ODU Soccer Complex. The loss was the first in the last 11 matches for the Monarchs.
Marissa Topolski finished a Nia Stallings lead pass off a counter from an ODU corner to give Rice a 1-0 lead in the 19th minute.
Three minutes later, in the 22nd minute, Annie Walker played a corner into the middle of the box, which found Samantha Chaiken for her eighth goal of the season to give the Owls a 2-0 advantage.