CARDS Sunday Success --- MONDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

 CARDS WIN TWO SUNDAY WITH VOLLEYBALL, FIELD HOCKEY WINS -- FALL TO DAYTON IN WSOC

Three UofL women's sports squads were in action Sunday..two of them on Floyd Street and one in Highland Heights, KY. field Hockey and Volleyball recorded wins, but Louisville women's soccer fell to their old nemesis Dayton in Lynn Stadium. Recaps below.

FIELD HOCKEY

Louisville Field Hockey got a 3-1 win over Penn Sunday afternoon at Trager Stadium, scoring three straight goals, including two in the fourth quarter, to go to 2-2 on the season 

The Quakers scored first in the contest, three minutes into the second quarter when Julia Ryan connected. The Cards were able to even it up with about three minutes left in the second quarter, when Louisville was awarded a penalty stroke and Aimee Plumb converted for UofL. The teams went to the halftime locker room tied at 1-1

After a scoreless third quarter, Louisville tallied a score with four minutes gone in the final period when Chloe Cuzzupe rebounded a blocked Chloe Plumb attempt and sent it back past the goalkeeper into the net. to give the Cards the lead for good at 2-1. Three minutes after that, Rylie Wollerton tipped an Aimee Plumb shot on goal into the end ffor an insurance goal for the Cards. 

#7 UofL had a 10-2 shots on goal advantge in the contest and had none penalty corner attempts, while the Quaker s did not have one.  Coach Sowry used both Em Young and Brandelynn Heinbaugh in goal. 

It was the Cards fourth all-time win over Penn and has never lost to the Quakers. 

Our Jared Anderson caught up with head coach Justine Sowry and Chloe Cuzzuppe for post game comments: 

Chloe Cuzzupe

Justine Sowry

VOLLEYBALL 

Louisville Volleyball (5-1) played their third match in three days up in Highland Heights, KY and faced NKU to end their visit there. The Cards got off to a rollicking start against the Norse,  and got the three gane sweep, but give Northern Kentucky credit for making it interesting in the third set. 

SET 1

Louisville and the Norse played fairly close in the beginning of the first set, UofL was able to forge out to an 11-7 lead, and then...suddently, it clicked for the Cards. UofL went on a 10-2 run to tale a 21-9 lead. The Norse could not stop the UofL attack and the Cards went 4-2 the rest of the set for the 25-11 opneing set win. Charitie Luper had three kills for UofL in the first set. 

SET 2 

It was all Cards in the second set. UofL had little trouble establishng an 11-7 lead, and then slammed the door completely shut on NKU with a 10-1 run for a 21-8 advantage. Louisville then won the final four points for the 25-8 shellacking.   

SET 3

It look like the Cards weren't going to have much trouble in the final set, jumpng out to a commanding 15-11 lead, but NKU decided to make a match of it and battled back to make it 16-14. They drew within one at 20-19, and then tied the set at 24-24..but the Cards previled for the final two points and took the final set and the  match 26-24. 

WOMEN'S SOCCER

Not all the day's activities went the way of the red and black, though. The Dayton WSOC squad came into the Lynn Stadium on campus Sunday evening, and, the Flyers continued their mastery over Louisville women's soccer, eking out a 1-0 win over Karen Ferguson Dayes' Cards.

Dayton struck early for the lone score in the match...Jenna Hallbeck tracked down a pass in front of the Louisville goal and tapped a kick past Cards goalkeeper Kiley Kimball for the lone score of the match, just three minutes into action.

Louisville had a 10-7 shot edge on the visitors, but each team managed only two shots on goal, Credit Dayton goalie Batoul Reda with two fine saves on those Cardinals goal attempts .

Louisville takes their first loss of the season and is now 5-1-2. The Cards now go into ACC Conference play and will travel to Pittsburgh to face the Panthers Saturday..

(PHOTOS BY JARED ANDERSON) 

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