The women’s soccer team defeated Francis Marion 2-0 Thursday night at Dail Soccer Stadium. Despite the win, State was very disapointed with the overall effort. ”We should have beat them five, maybe six to nothing. We didn’t play up to our level at all,” senior midfielder Kendall Irby said. “We kept giving the ball away — maybe 75 percent of the time. We made soft passes, which made our teammates have to take hard tackles.” Coach Steve Springthorpe said the effort just wasn’t there from the entire team. ”Certainly credit goes to [Francis Marion] for being prepared and bringing their best game. But for us, I’m certainly disappointed. We didn’t make good passes. It was soft passes. We had a lot of turnovers. Some caused by them, for sure, and their defending, but a good majority was caused by us,” Springthorpe said. “We needed to be better than that today.” Despite being eliminated from ACC tournament contention over the weekend, Springthorpe said the Wolfpack’s problem wasn’t motivation. It was performance. ”I think the girls were motivated, I just don’t think we performed very well … They knew that we were not going to make the ACC tournament, which was certainly a goal of ours. But they also know there is still a lot to play for,” Springthorpe said. “Our RPI is still pretty good. If we finish above .500, get a couple wins in the ACC, there may still be a shot at [the NCAA tournament] even if we don’t make the ACC tournament.” Irby, who beat Patriot goalkeeper Casey Durham with a one-timer from the top of the box to open the scoring, said the motivation is definitely there to perform down the stretch. ”We were upset, but … we still have a chance to go to the NCAA tournament,” Irby said. “That gives us a lot of hope and motivation.” In order to finish above .500, State has to defeat Duke at home on Sunday afternoon. But the Pack knows it has to play better in order to reach that goal. ”We need to do a lot better than how we played today if we want to beat Duke. Duke hasn’t done as well [this year], but they are still an ACC team and we need to look at them as a tough team,” Irby said. Senior midfielder and captain Chantalle Dugas scored the second and final goal for the Pack to increase its lead to 2-0. Looking toward the next game, Dugas said words are not even needed to motivate the team for the game against Duke.  ”The girls know the importance of the next game. We all know what we have to do,” Dugas said. “We need to come prepared, focused and definitely not play the way that we just did.”  The Duke game will be held at Dail Soccer Stadium Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. The Pack’s five seniors will be honored in a pregame ceremony.