Cards Field Hockey, Volleyball, Women's Soccer get Sunday wins -- MONDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

 CARDS SWEEP SUNDAY IN WOMEN'S SPORTS

A good day for Louisville women's sports as the Cards Field Hockey, Volleyball and Women's Soccer all got wins on Sunday. Here's how it happened...

FIELD HOCKEY

The Cards Field Hockey squad was in Washington, DC to face American University and Rylie Wollerton tallied two goals in a Louisville Sunday afternoon 3-1 win over the Eagles. 

The Cards actually started this one trailing, when American got a goal with 5:34 remaining in the first quarter off their first penalty corner attempt of the season. The lead did not last long, though...as UofL roared back with a score a minute later when they drew a penalty corner, Izzy Bianco's shot was stopped by the AU goalkeeper, but Sophia Parker was there to rebound  the miss and stick it in the net. The score was Parker's second of the season. 

The two squads battled to a scoreless second quarter, each getting a shot on goal. The respective goalkeepers got stops on the attempts. 

Louisville took the lead for good with seven minutes gone in the third quarter. Rylie Wollerton collected a loose ball off a defender's stick and sent it into the net. The quarter ended with the Cards holding a 2-1 lead. 

UofL added an insurance score in the fourth quarter.  They drew a penalty corner with about ten minutes remaining in the contest and Izzy Bianco sent a shot to the right side of the goal, Wollerton reached out her stick and deflected the ball into the net. It was now 3-1..and the teams remained scoreless the rest of the contest. 

VOLLEYBALL

Next, we travel from Washington to downtown Louisville.

The VolleyCards...#6 (for now) in the nation brought in #15 Tennessee for a Sunday afternoon match downtown at the YUM! arena and a nice sized crowd was in atendance to see UofL take a three-game sweep over the Volunteers.  25-14, 25-22 and 25-20 were the scores in the sweep.

Louisville hit an impressive ,371 in the match and had seven aces and 45 kills... to go to 2-0 on the season. They got a huge effort from Sofia Maldonano-Diaz with 11 kills and Reese Robins hit .727 for the match and added eight kills, Anna DeBeer finished with nine kills for the Cards. 

The Vols could only muster .151 hitting from the hardwood and drop to 0-2 on the season. 

Louisville men's basketball coach Pat Kelsey took the first serve yesterday

(We were expecting Jared Anderson photos for VB and WSOC, but had not received them at the time of publication, We will add them when they arrive).

Note from Jared: the photos were added to the Cardinal Couple Dropbox late last night after several hours of editing from volleyball and women's soccer back-to-back.

WOMEN'S SOCCER

Finally, we end up Sunday evening at the south end of the Belknap campus 

Louisville women's soccer was in the familiar venue of Dr. Mark and Cindy Lynn Stadium Sunday night for a match against the Evansville Purple Aces. The kickin' Cards booted their way to a 3-0 win. 

It was a scoreless match for the first 10 minutes or so, before UofL got their first goal...Karsyn Cherry set up MacKenzie Geigle and she did the honors in scoring the match's first goal. With 8:03 remaining in the first half, Louisville struck again, this time it was Cherry with her fourth goal of the season, aided by an assist from Brooke Dardano. The first half ended with the Cards holding the 2-0 edge and a 12-0 shots advantage over the visitors. 

Louisville recorded their final tally when Geigle picked up her second score of the game on a feed from Gianna Angelilio thirteen minutes into the second half.

The Cards go to 4-0-2 on the season and have matched the number of wins they had in 2023. Due to post-game technical issues in the press box and with StatBroadcast, we did not conduct a post-game interview with coach KFD or a player, Not sure who Case and Jared would have chosen, I would have suggested Geigle, but...oh well, there will be other chances to do these later in the season.  

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Paulie