Eastern Wayne stays undefeated as Taylor Waters scores her 40th goal in nine games

Having already scored her 39th and 40th goals of the year, Taylor Waters sent a long free kick towards the box, hoping for a shot at No. 41 and a game-winner to keep alive the Warriors' unbeaten streak to start the season.

It wasn't a goal for Waters, but it turned into a game-winner nonetheless.

The ball bounced back out to the opposite side where it found Enmi Gomez Esquivel's foot. The rocket ripped the back of the net to secure the 3-2 win over visiting Princeton in the Neuse 6 Conference opener for both.

Eastern Wayne (9-0, 1-0) needed that 73rd minute goal to pull ahead of a Princeton (6-3-1, 0-1) team that had tied it just seven minutes earlier in the 66th minute on a penalty kick from Anais Blanco after Connie Campbell picked up a foul in the box.

Daynet Cevallos, in her first year as a goalkeeper, came up big for Eastern Wayne time and again in the second half.

It had been 2-1 at halftime with two scores by Waters answered by Princeton's Macie Allison's breakaway.

The Warriors, who do not have a single senior on the roster, now have almost as many wins as a year ago, when they finished 10-8-2 and finished fifth in the league. This year's group is already closing in on the 15 wins earned by the 2017 squad — the most by any Eastern Wayne team in the last decade.