TOLEDO, Ohio - Senior Kiersten Johnson scored a pair of goals in her final Toledo home match but Western Michigan spoiled the celebration in a high-scoring affair, 4-3, on Sunday afternoon at Scott Park.

The Rockets (7-10-1, 2-7-1 MAC) fell beind, 1-0, in the 11th minute when the Broncos Alyssa Burke opened the scoring. Western Michigan (11-6-1, 5-4-1 MAC) took the 1-0 lead into halftime.

UT evened the scoring on Johnson's first goal in the 61st minute. Junior Chiara Paradiso entered a free kick into the box which was deflected directly to Johnson by junior Isa Echeverri.

Just 40 seconds later, Western Michigan regained the lead with a goal from Liz Abro. Toledo scored the third goal in 3:19 of game clock to tie the score at 2-2 when Paradiso rocketed a free kick into the back of the net from just inside of midfield.

The Rockets were penalized inside of the box in the 70th minute, leading to a WMU penalty kick and the second goal of the match for Abro. Burke added her second tally of the match in the 79th minute to put the Broncos ahead, 4-2.

In the 83rd minute, Johnson controlled a rebound off the crossbar and notched her 10th goal of the season to cut the lead in half. The Rockets had a few opprutunities in the final minutes but could not score the equalizing goal.

Toledo outshot the Broncos 17-9 and took three more corner kicks than the opposition. 

Johnson and classmates Nicole Jablonski, Brooke Maletic and Lauren Taylor were honored before their last home match.

The women's soccer team concludes the regular season with a trip to Bowling Green on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 3:00 p.m.


TOLEDO 3, Western Michigan 4

WMU: Alyssa Burke (Candice Uhl), 10:50
UT: Kiersten Johnson (Chiara Paradiso, Isa Echeverri), 60:27
WMU: Liz Abro (Alex Ruffer), 61:07
UT: Chiara Paradiso (unassisted), 63:46
WMU: Liz Abro (penalty kick), 69:08
WMU: Alyssa Burke (Roselyn Kyeame), 78:38
UT: Kiersten Johnson (unassisted), 82:11

SHOTS: UT 17, WMU 9
CORNER KICKS: UT 6, WMU 3
SAVES: UT 3, WMU 8