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Elizabeth Rhoden earned All-GPAC first-team honors as a defender for the 2004 women's soccer season. It was the first year in the sport for the senior from Friendswood, Texas, after completing her eligibility in women's basketball. Named to the All-GPAC second team were Liesl Barz, a junior from San Antonio, Texas, as a midfielder and Jennifer Davis, a junior from Lincoln, Neb., as a forward. Earning honorable mention were Gentri Brown, Brittany Tomsick and Andrea Christensen.

Dordt held on after scoring three goals within three minutes in the first half to defeat Concordia, 3-2, in an NAIA regional tournament game on Nov. 6 at Sioux Center, Iowa. Jen Davis scored both of the Bulldog goals, one in each half. They finished at 11-8 compared to Dordt moving on at 15-5-1.
Abbie Soodsma scored two goals and Bethany Nishimoto one for Dordt.

The Concordia women's soccer team will enter the NAIA Region 4 playoffs on Saturday at 2 p.m. against Dordt at Sioux Center, Iowa. The eight-team field finds the Bulldogs seeded seventh. Concordia, which did not qualify for the six-team GPAC tournament won by Hastings, advances to post-season play for the first time in the program's history with an 11-7 record. They lost to Dordt, 2-1, in a regular-season match. The other seven teams in order of seeding are Hastings, Dordt, College of St. Mary, Ottawa, Dana, Friends and Parks.

First Period:
Concordia: Gentri Brown, assist Jen Davis, 12:29
Second period:
Concordia: Laura Ochs, assist Elizabeth Rhoden 38:06
Concordia: Liesl Barz, assist Ochs, 16:56
Concordia: Brittany Tomsick, unassisted, 10:46

First-half Scoring:
17:58 – Jen Davis, assist Liesl Barz
4:27 – Brittany Tomsick, assist Gentri Brown

2:02 – Rachel Matten, assist Katie Helmer
Second-half scoring:

18:49 – Tomsick, assist Barz
14:53 – Barz, assist Brown
at Seward on Saturday, Oct. 16

Jen Davis scored 10 minutes in the GPAC women's soccer match on Wednesday night at Seward, but Nebraska Wesleyan came back with four to earn a GPAC victory. Wesleyan goals were by Lindsay Priefort, Megan McCarville, Brooke Woodward and Stephanie Anderson. It was tied 1-1 at half.

Concordia's second-half rally from a 3-0 deficit fell short in overtime, 5-4, at Northwestern on Saturday afternoon. Sara Kernes scored the winner in the fourth extra minute.
Gentri Brown scored two of the four second-half goals for Concordia, including the tying score with seconds remaining. Jen Davis and Brittany Tomsick each recorded a goal and an assist. Liesl Barz had two assists.

Tuesday afternoon at Blair

Morningside pulled within 3-2 with 14 minutes remaining, but Concordia met the challenge with three goals the rest of the way for a 6-2 GPAC women’s soccer victory at Seward on Saturday afternoon. It was 2-0 at half. Jennifer Davis and Liesl Barz each scored two goals for the Bulldogs, who are 2-3 in GPAC play and 8-4 for the season. Morningside, missing several key players sidelined with injuries, fell to 1-4, 3-7-2 overall.
Scoring:
9:01: Concordia-Liesl Barz, assist Elizabeth Rhoden
25:21: Concordia-Gentri Brown, assist Rhoden
50:08: Concordia-Jennifer Davis, unassisted
60:43: Morningside-Stephanie Reis, assist Marisha Lenz
76:12: Morningside-Lenz, assist Brooke Niles
77:04: Concordia-Davis, assist Brown
79:01: Concordia-Katie Helmer, assist Brittany Tomsick
88:39: Concordia: Barz, assist Rhoden

Concordia held GPAC leaders to a 1-0 margin and tied it early in the second period. The Broncos only took 16 seconds to regain the lead and stretched to a 5-2 final tally. Elizabeth Rhoden scored a Bulldog goal with a header off a corner kick. Brittany Tomsick scored with 14:15 remaining with an assist from Jen Davis.  The match was played the evening of Sept. 22 at Seward.

Liesl Barz scored with 22 seconds left in the first half, but it was Concordia's only goal on Sept. 25 in a 2-1 loss to Dordt at Sioux Center, Iowa. Nicki De Blaey and Stephanie Schippers scored second-half goals to put Dordt at 2-1 in the GPAC, 6-2-1 overall. Concordia now is 7-3, 1-2 in the GPAC.

Midland Lutheran shut out Concordia, 2-0, in a GPAC match on the evening of Sept. 22 at Fremont. Kassandra Douglas (unassisted) and Kelly DeLay (Jessie Singleton) accounted for the Midland Lutheran goals.

Concordia earned recognition by cracking into the top five in the NAIA Region 4 ratings on Sept. 20. The GPAC is represented by Hastings at No. 1 and Dordt at No. 3.

Jen Davis and Brittany Tomsick each scored two goals as Concordia won its first GPAC match of the season, 6-1, over Briar Cliff at Seward on Sept. 18. Gentri Brown and Katie Einem also scored goals with Rachel Matten contributing two assists and Liesl Barz one.

Jen Davis netted three goals and three other Concordia players scored two goals each on Sept. 15 as the Bulldogs won, 12-1, at York . Gentri Brown opened the scoring after three minutes and added another early in the second half as well as posting an assist. Brittany Tomsick and Liesl Barz also scored two goals. Other goals were by Crystal Fraas, Katie Helmer and Elizabeth Rhoden. Lydia Henschen was credited with an assist. It marked the third time this season that the Bulldogs have scored 10 goals or more in a match.

Early goals by Jennifer Davis (assist by Liesl Barz and Brittany Tomsick) held up on Sept. 11 for a 2-1 victory over Kansas Wesleyan.
“Playing three games in four days is very difficult for any team,” Coach Bill Schranz said, “but I felt that with our depth we could handle it. However, the heat really took it out of us Saturday.”
The backfield of Andrea Christensen, Elizabeth Rhoden, Rachel Matten and Crystal Fraass played well, he said with bench depth providing much-needed fresh legs and stamina to help keep a physical Kansas Wesleyan team on their half of the field late in the game.

Brittany Tomsick scored three goals as Concordia defeated McPherson, 6-0, at Seward on Sept. 10.  It was 2-0 at half. Elizabeth Rhoden's header on a corner kick by Rachel Matten opened second-half scoring with Laura Och pushing in a loose ball in a scramble in front of the goal at 32:02. Tomsick added the final two scores at 28:52 and 15:09.

After battling through a scoreless first half, Concordia used its depth to erupt for four second-half goals and a 4-1 women’s soccer victory over Central College on Sept. 8 at Pella, Iowa.
Just 32 seconds into the second half, Jennifer Davis put Concordia on top. Eight minutes later, Rachel Matten followed with a goal and teammates Liesl Barz and Brittany Tomsick put the issue to rest for a 4-0 lead in the final minutes.

Concordia exploded for 10 goals as they shut out the University of St. Mary on Sept. 2 at Seward. Scoring two goals each for the Bulldogs were Katie Helmer, Jen Davis and Liesl Barz with single tallies each by Brittany Tomsick, Katie Einem, Crystal Fraass and Laura Ochs.

College of St. Mary defeated Concordia, 3-1, in a match played on Aug. 31. The Flames dominated early, controlling the ball as they took a 2-0 halftime lead. Liesel Barz scored the goal for Concordia.

Brittany Tomsick scored four goals as Concordia defeated Illinois Tech, 10-1, in the season opener on Aug. 23 at Seward. It was 6-0 at half. Liesl Barz assisted Tomsick on three of her goals. Tomsick also had an assist, as did Katie Helmer. It was 6-0 at half. It took less than two minutes for the Bulldogs to score, with a Tomsick goal coming before Illinois Tech even got the ball in its end of the field. Also scoring for Concordia, unassisted unless designated, were Jen Davis (assist Tomsick), Jennifer Iehl, Liesl Barz, Elizabeth Rhoden, Crystal Fraass and Jamie Rimes (assist Helmer).

The first winning season in the history of women’s soccer at Concordia University came to an end in double overtime on Oct. 31 at Sioux Center, Iowa. “The Lady Dogs played an outstanding game on Halloween day,” Coach Bill Schranz said of 10-7 Concordia, but the Dordt Defenders avenged an earlier loss to the Bulldogs by beating them, 2-1, in sudden death in the quarterfinals of the GPAC tournament. Dordt attacked in the first minute of the second overtime with Bethany Nishimoto laying the ball in front of the goal and Abbie Soodsma deflecting it in for the win. Dordt now faces Dana, seeded second, and top-seeded Hastings takes on Morningside on Wednesday. “The game was a battle from the start,” Schranz said. “Our game plan was to shut down Bethany Nishimoto (Dordt’s leading scorer) by having Laura Ochs mark her for the entire match. We played the game we wanted to. Laura did a great job, only allowing her one shot on goal and I thought that defensively we really played a solid match.” The Bulldogs capitalized early as a Jen Davis shot found the back of the net at the 16th minute of the first half. “Offensively,” the coach said, “we also played well but just didn’t get the shots off we needed to. Overall, we had a great game and a very successful season” The teams exchanged good scoring opportunities the remainder of the first half without further scoring. The Defenders found the equalizer with 16 minutes left in regulation when the Bulldogs scored an own goal off a Defender corner kick. “We had been playing well defensively even though Dordt had been putting a lot of pressure on us in our defensive half of the field,” Schranz said. A corner kick went over keeper Liz Tiller’s hands and hit one of the Bulldog defenders who was trying to come back to clear the ball and ended up in the back of the net. “Those goals could really destroy your team’s confidence,” he said, “but the women picked it up, stayed focused, and played well the rest of the match.” A long shot into the back of the net by Dordt as regulation ended put a lump in the throat of Bulldog fans, but it was not allowed with the ruling that time had expired. Concordia defeated Dordt, 2-1, with a last-minute goal at Seward on Sept. 27.