RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The University of California, Riverside scored in the first 14 minutes of each half on Sunday, and the Highlanders defeated visiting Loyola University Maryland, 2-0, in non-conference action at UCR Soccer Stadium.
 
Loyola had a good look from Jourdan Ziff in the ninth minute that went high, and the Highlanders got onto the scoreboard just over five minutes later as Madeline Feist tallied her second goal in as many games. Feist took a Quinley Quezada feed and tallied the game's first goal.
  Neither the Greyhounds (0-2 overall), nor UC Riverside (2-0) managed a shot over the next nine minutes until the Highlanders' Alexis Vera had an attempt saved by Loyola's Sumer Rahe.
 
The Greyhounds earned a corner kick in the 37^th minute, but they were denied a shot by the UC Riverside defense. The Highlanders had the next, and last shot of the first half, when Neyda Martinez took a strike that Rahe denied.
 
UC Riverside had a pair of shots that went wide in the first eight minutes of the second half, keeping the score 1-0, and the Highlanders garnered a corner kick late in the 57^th minute.
 
Darielle O'Brien sent the ball into the box where Quezada finished it for a goal at 57:08, staking the Highlanders to a 2-0 lead the would keep for the remainder of the game.
 
Sarah Bayer squeezed off two shots in the span of three minutes, the first saved by UC Riverside's Jaura Perjanik and the second that went wide. Hannah Hoefs then took a shot in the 75^th minute that went high.
 
Loyola had its best scoring chance over a one-minute stretch in the 81st minute. Hoefs had two shots saved by Perjanik, and Ziff saw another turned away by the Highlanders' goalkeeper. In the 82^nd minute, Hoefs had a shot blocked by the defense.
 
The Greyhounds return to the East Coast and head to the Garden State for their next game. Loyola takes on Seton Hall on Thursday, August 23, at Seton Hall University in a 6:30 p.m. game.