TURN BACK THE CLOCK TUESDAY is a  feature where we look back at some of the great moments in Eastern Illinois University Athletic history.  Relive other great moments here.

Sept. 23, 1998 -- Eastern Illinois women's soccer celebrates a score in the north goal at Lakeside Field during a 4-2 victory against Illinois, the biggest home win of a season in which the Panthers held dual membership in both the Ohio Valley and Missouri Valley Conferences.

Kristy Zabrosky (No. 2, Lake Forest) and Heather Ory (No. 10, Naperville) react to the goal as their teammates join the celebration. Obscured by the two Illinois players was the premier Panther of the day, Tracie Strother (No. 16, Peoria). She scored EIU's first two goals in the win.

Ory was named the inaugural OVC Player of the Year and First Team All-MVC as a senior in 1998. She closed out her collegiate career that fall having started all 80 games in which she played. Strother was named Second Team All-OVC and Honorable Mention All-MVC in 1998, finishing her career with a then program-record 43 goals. Both players helped lay the foundation for the program as four-year starters beginning as freshmen in the inaugural 1995 campaign.

Eastern went 6-2 at Lakeside Field in 1998 en route to posting a 10-7-1 overall record. The Panthers finished second to Tennessee Tech in the first year of OVC women's soccer after losing an overtime heartbreaker in Cookeville Sept. 6, 1-0. With only five OVC schools sponsoring women's soccer in 1998, no conference tournament was held.

In its final season as an affiliate member of the MVC, EIU finished fourth in the standings with a 3-2-1 conference record. Strother and Zabrosky both scored in the regular-season finale, a 4-1 win against Missouri State at Lakeside Field, but the Panthers were unable to defeat the Bears again four days later at the MVC Tournament in Evansville, Ind.