With one quick minute, the Eastern women’s soccer season changed. Freshman goalie Jenny Williams went down in Friday’s game against Eastern Michigan with only a minute-and-a-half remaining in the game.

“Sometimes that happens in a season,” said Bowling Green head coach Andy Richards on Sunday after his team beat Eastern 2-0.

Williams went to cover the crossed ball from an Eastern Michigan corner kick and collided with an Eagles player.

She sat out the final minute-and-a-half of Friday’s game and did not play at all in Sunday’s game.

“She was dazed a little bit. As coaches, I don’t ever think you can be too careful when it comes to a head injury,” Eastern head coach Tim Nowak said.

Williams’ head injury was not too severe, but Nowak said he does not know if Williams will be ready for Friday’s game at Wright State.

“She felt great on Sunday. She was the usual, spunky self,” Nowak said.

Junior forward Kellie Floyd came in for the rest of Friday’s game and started the first half of Sunday’s game.

“It was good for her to get in there. Kellie’s perfectly capable of doing a good job in goal,” Nowak said.

On Sunday’s game against Bowling Green, Eastern used three different goalies including Floyd, freshman midfielder Alexis Miller and senior defender Abby Bohnenstiehl.

“You’ve got deal with adversity,” Williams said.

Although the Panthers had to use three different goalkeepers, they were satisfied with the people in the temporary position for goalkeeper.

“It was unfortunate that our goalkeeper Jenny was out, but it was awesome that (Abby, Alexis, and Kellie) was able to step in there,” junior defender Karissa Brenner said.

So far on the season Williams has given up seven goals in 483 minutes of work. Williams has also made a penalty kick stop against Loyola in Eastern’s 2-1 win on Sept. 3.

“We’re preparing as if (William’s) playing on Friday and I don’t anticipate her being gone for very long,” Nowak said.

Nowak is not concerned about the goalie position too much – even if Williams is the only goalie on the roster.

“There’s not a goalkeeping problem with the team,” Nowak said.

Nowak cites another problem of the team.

“Our problem isn’t goalkeeping, our problem isn’t defending in front of the goal,” Nowak said. “The problem we need to address as a team is scoring goals and being aggressive. We need to score goals.”

Although scoring is a problem for the Panthers, they are without a goalkeeper.

“We’re being as cautious as we can be,” Nowak said of Williams.

Freshman midfielder Alexis Miller punts the ball while playing goalie during the second half of Sunday’s game against Bowling Green at Lakeside field. Jay Grabiec/The Daily Eastern News

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