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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. -- With only 3:30 remaining in Friday's Southern Conference showdown at ETSU, Samford's Malcanisha Kelley provided the heroics for the Bulldogs as she headed home a cross from junior Taylor Borman to earn the thrilling 1-0 road victory held at Summers-Taylor Stadium.
 
Not only did Kelley's goal move her into a tie for the school's all-time goals-scored record of 26, as well as the single-season record of 11, but it also clinched Samford's second straight SoCon regular-season championship.
 
Samford (13-4, 8-0 SoCon) has been victorious in 11-consecutive conference matches and has not allowed a league foe to score in the regular season since Oct. 17, 2014. The Bulldogs also extended their current winning streak to nine-consecutive matches and secured the No. 1 seed in the upcoming SoCon Tournament.
 
Samford's current winning streak marks its longest since 2011 when the Bulldogs rattled off 10-straight victories encompassing 32-consecutive days.
 
Additionally, Samford set the school's record for longest shutout streak Friday by extending its mark to 763-consecutive minutes without allowing a goal. The Bulldogs snapped the school's previous record of 730 minutes, which was set in 2009 when current Assistant Coach Alyssa Whitehead was starring in goal.
 
The Bulldogs' goalkeepers this season, Anna Maddox and Katie Peters, have been rotating starts and have combined to record nine shutouts, while only allowing 13 goals in 17 matches. On the season, Samford has outscored its opponents by a total of 40-13.
 
Maddox, the Bulldogs' talented 6-foot native of Warner Robins, Georgia, played all 90 minutes in Friday's shutout win over ETSU (9-7-1, 4-3-1 SoCon) and registered three big-time saves in the triumph. With the victory, Maddox improved to 7-1 on the season and notched her fourth shutout.
 
After nearly 87 minutes of a high-action, well-played, back-and-forth contest between two of the SoCon's best teams, Samford's Kelley quieted the home crowd of 350 fans with her decisive goal at 86:30. The score lifted the Bulldogs to victory and will go down in Samford lore as one of the biggest goals in school history.
 
Borman initiated the game-winning goal by sending a perfectly-placed crossing pass on the right side to Kelley. The Bulldogs' high-flying junior forward from Childersburg, Alabama, then skied over ETSU's goalkeeper Jasmine Elliott to head home the winner.
 
With the assist, Borman moved into a tie for the team's lead in the category with 10 this season. Entering Friday's match, she was ranked ninth in the nation in total assists.
 
Borman has registered three assists in Samford's last two matches after she proved to be the catalyst in a pair of the Bulldogs' three goals Friday in a 3-0 home triumph over Chattanooga. Borman's assists set up Samford first two scores of the contest.
 
ETSU, behind the positive vibe of its home crowd Friday, outshot the Bulldogs, 13-6, with three coming on goal. Samford also tallied three shots on goal, with Kelley's finding the back of the net.
 
The Bulldogs earned a decisive advantage in corner kicks, 6-2, while the teams were both whistled for 10 fouls apiece.
 
The back-to-back SoCon regular-season champion Samford University soccer team will next be in action Sunday at 1 p.m. (CDT) as the Bulldogs continue their two-match road trip against the Western Carolina Catamounts to be held at the Catamount Athletic Complex in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
 
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