Kelley scores twice as Vandy coasts past Florida

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Vanderbilt had no scarcity of scoring Thursday night time at Florida, taking down the Gators 5-2 for a next consecutive conference victory.

Vanderbilt struck to start with in the 20th minute off the right foot of Peyton Cutshall. A Vandy corner kick led to Cutshall’s strike, her next target on the season.

Just three minutes later the Commodores doubled their lead. Amber Nguyen gained a no cost kick and fired a bending shot off the crossbar to make it 2- in the 23rd.

After Florida received on the board off a corner kick in the 28th, the Commodores wasted no time making their lead again to two. Hannah McLaughlin sent a cross into the box and Raegan Kelley headed in her staff-primary seventh goal this period and 26th of her career.

The sport remained 3-1 until the 61st when Kelley when all over again found house off a cross, this time from Nguyen. Nguyen’s pinpoint pass found Kelley on your own in the vicinity of the significantly publish and Kelley tapped in her second target of the night to make it 4-1.

Florida minimize the Vandy lead back to two on a Vandy very own intention in the 71st, but after once again the Commodores had a reaction.

Abi Brighton joined the scoring get together just minutes later on a superbly taken totally free kick of her personal that left Florida’s keeper with no opportunity at a help you save. Brighton’s first goal on the season would give Vanderbilt five targets in an SEC contest for the very first time considering that a 5- gain above Missouri in 2021.

Vanderbilt has now gained 3 straight above the Gators in Gainesville underneath head mentor Darren Ambrose.

“I am genuinely very pleased of how we came out and controlled the sport for extensive durations. We scored some good plans,’ Ambrose noted. “The females are a tiny dissatisfied to concede two goals in the way we did but all those mistakes are very fixable in practice. Overall just a genuinely sound performance on the road.”

Vandy enhances to 10-2-3 (4-2-2 SEC) and has attained the 10-earn mark for the fourth time in Ambrose’s 8 seasons. The Commodores host Mississippi State Sunday at 3 p.m. in the final house match of the normal period.