ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL SUNDAY ON FLOYD STREET
A fun afternoon of watching UofL women's sports on Sunday via the ACC Network Extra for me. If you made the drive down to campus to watch any or all of the action, i hope you have rehydrated and had a great time.
Starting it off, Louisville women's soccer met the Akron Zips and pulled them down and exposed their weaknesses. To end the day, Cards Field Hockey battled a very good IU squad tooth and nail and finally prevailed in overtime. Let's look at the wins a little closer, shall we?
LOUISVILLE WOMEN'S SOCCER 5 - AKRON WOMEN'S SOCCER 0
Louisville struck early in the match at Lynn Stadium, getting a score 11:47 into the contest when Liza Suydam took a feed from Nicole Jodoin and discovered net success. The Cards offense was the show pretty much all of the contest, and tacked on another goal about six minutes later when Amelia Sinarski got into the act after getting set up by Suydam and Jodoin. Two minutes later, Swinarski picked up another goal, this time on a pass from Karina Peat. It was 3-0 after 20 minutes of action. The Zips looked lost on the pitch. The Cards would not score again the rest of the half but got four more attempts off and a stubborn cross bar on the goal prevented the score from being 4-0 going into the mid-match break. Still..3-0 was a formidable lead and gave coach Norton a chance to explore some other combinations.
UofL got four shots off in the first seven minutes of the second half and the one from Karina Peat , off a Jodoin assist, got by the Zips goalkeep to make it 4-0. The Cards would add their final goal in the 73rd minute of the 90 minute game...Abigail Cox getting an unassisted score. It is the third time this season the Cards have scored five goals in a match.
The stats indicated the rout. Louisville had 22 shots, 10 of them on goal. Akron attempted 2 shots with one of them on goal. The Cards had a 9-1 corners advantage and used 18 players..All of them got at least 37 minutes except for one.
Next up for the Cards WSOC is a trip to Lexington to face UK on Thursday.
LOUISVILLE FIELD HOCKEY 2 - iNDIANA FIELD HOCKEY 1
The squads went thru a scoreless first period where IU actually looked to be the more aggressive squad on offense. The Cards got off only three shots, two of them coming with less than a minute to play in the quarter and IU countered with five. Neither of the squads scored in the first 15 minutes.
In the second quarter, the scoreless affair continued until the Cards got on the board when Lauren Master got her first goal of the season on an assist from Aubreigh Uba at the 26:43 mark of the contest. That lead lasted the rest of the first half and the Cards went to the locker room carrying a fragile 1-0 edge.
A scoreless third period followed the halftime intermission . The Cards took only two shots in the quarter, while IU had seven attempts. That fragile 1-0 UofL lead was still in place but IU was getting way more shots off and you had to wonder just when they were going to finally connect on one.
Almost eight minutes into the final quarter, IU got a tying score. The goal came only 18 seconds after IU had pulled their goalie to increase their scoring chances. Neither team was able to score the rest of the way, and the Cards were headed to their second overtime game in two contests.
A ten minute overtime session ensued.
Uba got checked rather roughly driving to the goal for a shot in the extra time and the refs awarded her a penalty stroke attempt against the IU goalie after a long review. It was a golden opportunity for the Douglasville, PA native to end the contest and she did just that in her one-on-one contest...scoring her first goal of the season and giving the Cards the "W". They are now 2-0 on the season.
UofL travels to St. Louis next...for a Friday, Sept 4th contest.
paulie
