Cards Volleyball and Women's Soccer gather wins -- SUNDAY CARDNAL COUPLE

WIDE NET AND KICKIN' CARDS WOMEN POST "W"'s

Success on campus and in Houston for two of the UofL women's athletic squads. Volleyball rolls past Creighton in 4 sets and Women's Soccer opens the ACC slate with a win over Pitt at Lynn Stadium on campus. Let's look at how they did what they did... 

VOLLEYBALL TAKES FOUR SET WIN OVER CREIGHTON

# 5 Louisville Volleyball got strong efforts from Chloe Chicoine (21 kills) and Kaylyssa Blackshear (18 kills) and downed #15 Creighton 25-22, 27-25, 23-25, 25-16 yesterday in their second day in the Rice Invitational. 

SET ONE

The Cards broke out to a 5-1 early lead and shortly followed that up with a 9-3 jaunt to lead 14-6. Creighton, however, staged a rally and fought back to trail by just two at 24-22. Blackshear closed the door on the BlueJays with a kill, though, for the 25-22 first set "W". 

SET TWO

The two squads were close early, Creighton holding a slight advantage at 9-6. UofL rolled off five straight to go up 11-9, but Creighton roared right back at the Cards and grabbed a 15-14 lead at the TV timeout. Chicoine produced four straight kills to tie the affair at 21-21. The Bluejays were at set point at 25-24, but UofL got 3 of the next four points and a Chloe Meester block gave Louisville a 27-25 win

SET THREE

Creighton was unstoppable early and built a 10-3 lead. The Cards rolled off 7-2 response and Creighton answered to make it 15-12 at the break. It was Creighton's turn, and they soared to a 23-17 advantage, Louisville refused to quit, though, and their 6-1 run set the tally at 24-23 Blue Jays. The Iowa based school got the final point of the set and took a closely fought 25-23 win. 

SET FOUR

The Cards opened with a 6-2 run and took a 15-8 lead at the break. Chicoine was a killing machine and Louisville was at 24-13 before Creighton tried a comeback with three straight ponts. The Cards closed this "battle of the birds" with a block and a 25-16 set win. 

Louisville plays again today at 1 p.m. in the fina; day of the Rice Invitational, this time facing Northern Iowa. It's scheduled for a 1 p.m. start and it'll be shown on ESPN+ again. 

SOCCER DEFENDS LYNN WITH 4-2 WIN OVER PITT

Louisville women's soccer got their seventh win in a row with a ACC opening win over Pitt 4-2 Saturday night in Lynn Stadium. As Bob Weir might have belted on stage with the Grateful Dead..."One More Saturday Night.." 

Grateful Dead "One More Saturday Night"

Liza Suydam got the party started for the Cards in the 10th minute of action, when she took a pass from Karina Peat and booted the ball home. Pitt would respond halfway through the first half and that's how it stayed...a 1-1 tie...going into halftime.

The Cards took a 2-1 lead after five minutes of second half play when Peat was on the scoring end, on a nice assist from Grace Maddox. At the 62:19 mark, Louisville made it 3-1 when Amelia Swinarski gathered a missed A.G. Gibson shot off the cage and sent it past the Pitt goalkeeper. 

Pitt benefitted from the rare "own goal" when a Cards player tried to send one out of bounds near the UofL net and put it in the net instead to make it 3-2 UofL. With three minutes left in the contest, Louisville put the final score of the match on the board when Brooklyn Lee fed Liz Eddy for a score and the 4-2 Cards edge held until the end of the game. 

UofL heads to the west coast next to face Stanford on Thursday. 

paulie