STORM LAKE, Iowa (Sept. 20, 2023) - In what was a battle of the Beavers inside of J. Leslie Rollins Stadium on Wednesday afternoon, it was Buena Vista getting a goal from Kendall Bickford early in the 27th minute which led to a 1-1 tie against visiting Blackburn College (Ill.).

Bickford got control of a nice lead pass that came in from the 35-yard line, and after dribbling about 20 yards downfield, took a nice sliding kick that got past the diving Blackburn goalkeeper for his team-leading fifth goal of the year.

Blackburn got on the board first during the 14th minute on one of its eight shot attempts for the day.

The Beavers were on the attack for a large majority of the contest but narrowly missed on a few shot attempts. The team took 21 total shots with 10 coming on-goal. Bendall led the way with seven shots, including three on-goal, Eduardo Garcia had five (three on-goal), while Stover added three.

Cody Fuller went all 90:00 in-goal and made three saves.

Buena Vista is now 1-5-2 overall and begins American Rivers Conference play on Saturday, Sept. 23, at Loras College with kickoff at 1 p.m. inside of the Rock Bowl.