LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – University of Southern Indiana Women's Soccer began its Ohio Valley Conference road trip Sunday afternoon with a 1-1 draw at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock after sophomore defender Emma Schut scored a second-half equalizing goal for the Screaming Eagles.
 
USI Women's Soccer (5-5-3, 2-0-2 OVC) picked up a point in OVC play, giving the Eagles eight points through four conference matches. Little Rock (3-3-5, 1-0-3 OVC) moved its total to six points in league play with Sunday's draw. Both teams remained unbeaten in conference action.
 
After an undefeated month of September, USI added to its unbeaten streak to begin play in October. The Screaming Eagles' unbeaten streak is up to eight games (5-0-3). The current streak is a program-best since the end of the 2018 season.
 
For Schut, the sophomore scored her first goal of the season and became the 11^th different Screaming Eagle to score this season. The last season when USI had at least 11 different players score a goal was in 2021.
 
Schut led USI on Sunday with two shots, both on goal. Redshirt sophomore forward Eva Boer and freshman forward Brooke Shafer each had a shot on target. USI tallied eight shots total with four on goal, while Little Rock had 11 shot attempts with four on frame.
 
It was Schut who got the offense going early with a shot on goal just over a minute into the contest. USI had a five-minute stretch in the middle of the first half with pressure on in the attacking third that led to three corner kicks. However, the Eagles were kept out of the goal.
 
Little Rock ended up striking first with a goal in the 33^rd minute to grab a 1-0 lead. The 1-0 difference held into halftime, even though Shafer nearly tied it right before the break with a look at the six-yard box that was saved.
 
USI got another quick look to potentially tie the match just over a minute into the second half with a shot on goal by Boer. A few minutes later, Little Rock had a shot on goal to try and double its lead, but USI redshirt junior goalkeeper Anna Markland, who had three saves on Sunday, made a save to keep the match at 1-0.
 
After some back-and-forth play, Schut tied the match in the 69^th minute from nearly 25 yards outside the box. Schut received the ball in the midfield and dribbled into the vicinity of the top left corner of the box, where she fired a laser across the frame of the goal and into the right side of the goal.
 
The 1-1 match came down to crunch time in the final seconds. After a USI corner kick with under two minutes left, Little Rock went the other direction and earned a corner kick in the final 10 seconds. The corner kick was headed into the middle of the box, where one last shot attempt by the Trojans sailed over the crossbar to end the match.
 
Next, USI Women's Soccer completes the two-game OVC road swing on Thursday afternoon at Eastern Illinois University in a battle against the first-place Panthers. Kickoff Thursday is slated for 3 p.m. and can be seen with a subscription to ESPN+.