A late-summer lightening storm stopped last season's Chico State-Dixie State women's soccer match 20 minutes early, ending it in a 1-1 draw. Saturday night in Chico, the Wildcats and Red Storm provided their own fireworks in a 3-2 Chico State victory.
 
Carlie Reader's second goal of the night (and her second as a collegian) was the match-winner for the Wildcats, who led 2-0 before Dixie State stormed back to equalize.
 

Lindsay Dias played a ball over the top to the true freshman, who beat a defender to it down the right flank. She dribbled with an angle to the top-right corner of the box and then buried a shot into the near upper-V with just 6:52 to play.
 
The Wildcats jumped out to an early 2-0 lead with two goals in the span of 71 seconds.
 
Reader raced down the left flank and fired a shot ticketed for the far corner before Dixie State goalkeeper Danica Nusink made a diving deflection. Pooja Patel was waiting at the far post, however, and simply placed it into the empty net for a 1-0 lead.
 
Reader was not to be denied seconds later. Nicole Roberts headed a ball toward the near post where it was flicked on by Patel. This time it was Reader at the far post. She beat Nusink near post for her first collegiate goal and a 2-0 lead in the 21^st minute.
 
Dixie State cut the lead in half in the 28^th minute. The Red Storm tied it in the 72^nd, catching Chico State off guard with a quick restart.

Jasmine Arollo's perfectly-place shot into the upper-right corner helped a lot as well.
 
Reader's answer came less than 12 minutes later and lifted Chico State to 2-1-1 on the season.
 
The Wildcats finished with a 13-10 edge in shots, including 8-5 in the shots-on-goal column.
 
Dixie State dipped to 2-2-0 with the loss.
 
Chico State is back in action next week, hosting California Baptist Thursday and Dominican University of California Saturday. Both matches will kick off at 7 p.m.