Lax, Softball suffer Saturday Setbacks -- Sunday Cardinal Couple

 HOMESTANDING LAX AND SOFTBALL TAKE ACC LOSSES

Not exactly a championship day down on Floyd Street Saturday...as Louisville Lacrosse fell to Syracuse in the LLS on the south end of the campus on Floyd St and then Louisvile Softball got outscored by Stanford in Ulmer on the north end of Floyd.St

In LAX, Louisville got the first score of the contest, but Syracuse responded with five straight goals to go up 5-1. The Cards would close the gap to one by halftime, trailing 6-5.

Syracuse used a strong third quarter to gain a 10-6 lead over Scott Teeter's LAX Cards. Louisville got the first two goals on the second half to get back within two at 10-8, but #13 Syracuse battled back to gain a 13-8 advantage and held off Louisville's late rally to get their first ACC win of the season 13-10. 

Cards LAX  attacker Ellen Berg. 

For UolfL, Ellen Berg scored a career high of four goals to lead UofL. Louisville, now 2-4 overall on the season are 0-3 in ACC play.

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On the north end of Floyd Street, Louiville softball got involved in a run scoring battle with visiting Stanford and saw a nice lead falter late in a 10-8 loss to the Cardinal. 

That's right..the Cardinal beat the Cardinals.

Stanford jumped out early on UofL and scored three runs in the first inning.on starter Brooke Gray, who was relieved after one out after allowing three runs scored. Madi Reeves took over for UofL and gave them three innings in the circle and gave up three runs before giving way to Anna Wise. Wise got the loss hung on her, she gave up three runs in just one inning pitching and gave way to Alyssa Zabala, who threw 2.2 innngs and allowed just one run on two hits.

The Holly Aprlle led softball Cards trailed 9-6 after 4 innings but the two sqiads just managed a run each the rest of the way

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We do apologize for not having Jared Anderson pictures for these contests. Without going into detail, he has..unwillingly..resigned, for now as our photographer. You'd figure after over 20 years of covering UofL sports, I'd receive just a little more respect. After all, Bob Valvano gets his X account hijacked and it's all one big "oops, I'm sorry" deal. As for me, I get hacked and get sent to solitary.. Nevertheless, I write for the joy and excitement of UofL women's athletics. I don't thnk they can stop me from doing that. 

I also miss the post game coaches interviews that I used to do, but with kidney failure, dialysis and also being recently diagnosed with hypoxemia. my daily activities are greatly curtailed .  

On this first day of March, it looks like the month came in like a lamb, according to the old wives tale, it'll be going out like a lion.  .

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Worth repeating: 

"What we've got to be able to do is make sure we execute at the offensive end," UofL coach Jeff Walz said. "You have to pass-fake. You've got to make sure you don't let Hidalgo take things over at the defensive end and come up with 8-9 steals and, the next thing you know, she's scoring some layups because you're not doing a good job of keeping her off balance."

paulie