Red-shirt sophomore goalie Kylie Morgan saved a season-high 10-of-11 shots in the Eastern women’s soccer team’s 1-1 draw against Wisconsin-Green Bay at Lakeside Field Sunday.

Morgan, who only started two other matches this season for the Panthers, said her teammates deserved the credit for the success she had in net.

“I’m happy with my play,” Morgan said. “Obviously my defenders have a lot to do with it. I had a couple mistakes, but those are things I can clean up. My back line being there is a big help when I carry the ball or drop one or something. They are always there to clean it up.”

Eastern took the lead in the 23rd minute, when red-shirt junior Chris Reed received a cross pass from fellow freshman Kathleen Mackinnon at the side of the box and buried it behind Green Bay goalie Nastacia Behle for a 1-0 lead.

Morgan kept the lead in tact for the Panthers, until the 66th minute, when Green Bay’s Heidi Hartmann kicked a low shot past Morgan to tie the match.

Eastern coach Jason Cherry said Morgan did everything she had to do in order to keep the Panthers in the match.

“She made some game-changing saves to keep us in the game,” he said. “I am very pleased with her. She has taken her moment and ran with it.”

With about five minutes left in regulation, Panthers’ forward Bianca Navejas’s shot went off the crossbar and bounced right in front of the goal line and was called a no goal.

Both teams remained even throughout the rest of regulation and overtime and the Panthers six-match losing streak came to an end.

Behle saved 4-of-5 shots for Green Bay and Hartmann led the Phoenix in shots with five.

Cherry said he was satisfied with the way the Panthers played in the game.

“I am pleased with the girls because they worked,” he said. “It was good for the girls. We are going to keep moving forward. It’s stepping stones, progress for the program and that is the most important thing. I am proud of every single one of them, because they just kept working.”

Eastern, moving forward, will face Valparaiso at 3 p.m. Friday at Lakeside Field and will then travel to Chicago State to play at 1 p.m. Sunday in Chicago.

Cherry said the biggest thing he wants to work on heading into the next few games is execution.

“We progressed forward, but we still have to learn how to win a game,” he said. “Granted I am happy that we tied, but we just have to keep working on execution.”

Eastern is currently 0-6-1 through seven games this season.

 Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].