Hardly anything went wrong for the Lady Bears Saturday in the 2024 regular season opener in Milledgeville, GA as they not only got three goals and three assists all from different players, but the defense and goalkeepers pitched a shutout as well as Southwest walked away with a 3-0 win over South Georgia State.
 
"We have been trying to focus on our game, our style and just accomplishing our things that we can accomplish on the field and we did that today," Southwest head coach Nicole Cooper said.
 
For nearly the entire match, the Lady Bears (1-0) relied on the superb goalkeeping of sophomore Kiera Schwartz as she recorded 14 saves, two which caught the eye of Cooper. "Kiera had two fantastic saves in the first half," she said. "They could have gone up 2-0 but she kept us in it."
 
Josi Spears later came on and logged six minutes in the match helping to keep the shutout in tact.
 
In the 22^nd minute, Caroline Barcelona and Kayla Martin picked up where they left off last season as the previous got a pass from the latter before sending a ball past the Lady Hawk goalkeeper putting the Lady Bears ahead 1-0.
 
Both teams continued to battle over the next 52 minutes before Southwest added to its lead. Arely Diaz took in a pass from Evie Peet before scoring giving the Lady Bears a 2-0 advantage.
 
Not even 10:00 later, the Lady Bears scored their third and final goal when Abby Davis connected with Amari Simmons who sent the ball to the back of the net making the score the eventual final.
 
Southwest completes its Georgia road trip on Sunday with a 1 p.m. contest against Georgia Military College.