MISSOULA — The Montana women's soccer team won both of its matches in the Rumble in the Rockies at South Campus Stadium, including Sunday's 3-0 victory over former Pac-12 member Oregon State. Montana, who edged Colorado College on Friday, 1-0, used goals by Maddie Ditta, Bella O'Brien and Riley O'Brien to beat Oregon State in dominating fashion. Keeper Ashlyn Dvorak, a Billings native, made one save.
The Beavers, who are coming off a 4-8-7 season and are under the direction of an interim coach in Caroline Kelly, have joined the West Coast Conference. They are picked to finish eighth in the league. With 15 minutes still remaining on the countdown clock, fans of the Montana soccer program were looking up at a rapidly filling grandstand at South Campus Stadium and wondering, where am I supposed to sit? By the time they had all shoehorned in, all 1,190 of them, the second-highest attendance in program history, the Grizzlies delighted their followers.
“It’s building,” said seventh-year coach Chris Citowicki, whose first team, in 2018, played in front of an average of just more than 400 fans. "People are not being triggered by giveaways. People are showing up because it’s a beautiful product.
You want to watch it.” It took less than three minutes for Montana to open the scoring. The Grizzlies led 2-0 at the half and won going away, outshooting the Beavers 18-6 and holding a majority of the possession to defeat Oregon State for the first time since 1997.
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