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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (Oct. 26, 2007) - Elisabeth Jones scored three goals, all in the second half, to lead No. 2 Texas A&M to a 6-1 win over the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women's soccer team Friday night.

The Panthers (11-4-3) suffered their worst loss since 1995 in seeing their 11-game unbeaten streak (8-0-3) come to an end.

For much of the first half Milwaukee's defense bent, but did not break. The Panthers allowed one goal in the first half before wearing down late in the game. They did not, however, give up as the game progressed, fighting for a goal late in the game.

"In the first have we were pretty good. There were a couple of kinks we had to work out, but we created some good chances," Milwaukee head coach Michael Moynihan said. "Jodi (Klagos) was going a great job until she got hurt, holding the ball up front for us. We were building some good attacks, we generated some good scoring opportunities and we came very close to scoring on the corner kick. We could have easily been up 1-0. Then we gave up what was pretty much a fluke goal."

Senior Pam Shipway scored a point in her fourth-straight game, knocking home UWM's only goal of the game at the 73:50 mark. Sophomore Erin Kreuser took a pass from sophomore Kate Megna and beat her defender to the endline. She sent a cross in front of the net, which freshman Sarah Talbert slowed and Shipway put in.

The score made it 3-1, but it was all A&M from there, as Jones scored all three of her goals in the final 25:10. She picked up her first one minute after Shipway's score at 74:50 and added scores in the 81st and 85th minutes.

Melissa Garey added a goal of her own, what became the game-winner in the 48th minute, and Texas A&M benefited from a Milwaukee own goal to push its final tally to six. The Panthers had not allowed six goals in a game, or lost by five goals, since opening the 1995 season with a 7-0 loss to No. 1 North Carolina.

"We just gave up three very uncharacteristic goals," Moynihan said. "The first one was a fluke, I thought the second, we had a player get nutmeged, then a missed clear and they finish near post. The third one was an own goal on a harmless ball. To go down 3-0 against the No. 2 team in the country in front of 3,000 people--that's not an easy tack to come back from."

Despite the score, the Panthers did play close with the Aggies in the first half. The UWM back limited any dangerous chances until conceding a goal to Cydne Currie in the 41st minute, giving Texas A&M a 1-0 lead heading at halftime.

The Panthers generated a handful of opportunities in the match. Junior Sarah Teegarden hit a header off a corner kick in the 21st minute that TAMU keeper Kristin Arnold had to stop at her feet.

Then Megna had a hustle play that nearly resulted in a goal late. After a corner kick, she back-kicked a ball into the box and it bounced around in front of the net. Megna then slide-tackled the ball away from the A&M keeper and recovered for a shot on the open net. Micah Stephens was there to clear the ball off the line.

"I thought we scored a nice goal to make it 3-1 and then we had a chance to make it 4-2 when it was cleared off the line," Moynihan said. "Despite the hole we dug, it was a relatively close game. Then, the end of the game we just kind of buckled under all the pressure. We created that hole for ourselves and, despite that, I thought there were some moments of pretty good soccer. It's hard, when you see the score line, to recognize that."

Having now ended the regular season, the Panthers set their sights on the post-season, opening its 2007 Horizon League Tournament run Saturday, Nov. 3. Milwaukee is the top seed in the tournament and will play the winner of a first round contest between the yet-to-be determined eighth and ninth seeds.

A game time will be announced with the official tournament bracket.