HAPPY LABOR DAY and...A Successful Sunday -- MONDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

TAKE THE DAY OFF...YOU'VE EARNED IT! 

Labor Day, by definition...falls on the first Monday of September and is a creation labor of the labor movement...dedicated to the social and economic achievements of the American workers. A yearly national tribute to the advancement of the workers whose strength, achievements and successes of our labor force that has made our nation so powerful and strong. It's also a great time to get together with family, friends or fellow laborers and take the day off...attending picnics and enjoying fellowship.   

We at CARDINAL COUPLE wish you a happy Labor Day and get out the grill and cooler!  


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FIELD HOCKEY DOWNS THE SPIDERS 5-1

Louisville Field Hockey earned their day of rest today by shutting down the Richmond Spiders Sunday afternoon in Trager Stadium 5-1. Louisville struggled a bit with the "web-dwellers" for the first ten minutes before senior Lotta Kahlert took the ball inside the circle and fired a shot past Richmond goalkeeper Amanda Hoyt for the first score of the contest. 

Richmond wasn't ready to concede just then, though, and evened the contest up three minutes later on a breakaway...Hannah Thompson on a one-on-one knocking one past Cardinal net-defender Ayeshia McFerran. The teams failed to score again, although the Cards were getting plenty of chances, until UofL freshman Minout Mink took a great feed from Shannon Sloss and buried it with only 67 seconds left in the first half...to give Louisville the 2-1 lead at the intermission. 

Kahlert gave the Cards a bit of breathing room at the 43:33 mark...driving a shot off the goalie's pads to increase the Cardinal lead to 3-1. Four minutes later...it was time for the Stephanie Byrne show. She got her first score unassisted in the front of the cage and also provided the Cards final score of the contest when Whena Munn delivered her a nice setup with 6:37 left in the game. CARDS WIN! CARDS WIN! 5-1.

McFerran was rock solid between the pipes...maybe a little more action than she has been used to this season...but had five saves in her 70 minutes of play. Louisville dominated the shooting stats...17 to 6 on total shots and 10 to 6 with shots on goal.

Louisville goes to 4-0 with the win and hits the road again next week...with a Friday afternoon match at Central Michigan and a stop at Michigan State on Sunday. 

LINK: Paulie's Stephanie Byrne Interview:  STEPHANIE BYRNE

LINK: Paulie's Justine Sowry interview:   JUSTINE SOWRY



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WSOC HALTS HARVARD 3-1

Sunday night brought the Harvard Crimsons to Lynn Stadium to face Karen Ferguson Dayes' Louisville women's soccer squad and the Cards emerged victorious 3-1 in what was absolutely perfect weather.

There has been a trend off and on this season of one player getting multiple goals in a contest and it was freshman Brooklynn Rivers turn to join that club...getting Louisville's first two scores last night. 

Havard tried a little trickery to begin the match...attempting a midfield shot at the very start of the game...fortunately the ball hit the top bar and goalie Taylor Bucklin was able to collect it before any damage could be done. 

Rivers countered three minutes later with a score...off a sweet feed from Sarah Feola (who hasn't left for the Canadian National tryouts yet) and Rivers...a Ft. Thomas, KY (Highland H.S.) resident collected her second tally ten minutes later when Jill Vetere fed her on a breakaway. 

A Harvard score made it 2-1 but...the Cards added the insurance goal to end the first half scoring when another freshman in Arianna Ferarro pounded the net from yet another Vetere set-up. 

A defensive struggle ensued over the final 45 minutes of the action...Louisville ending with a 13 to 8 shot advantage and 7-2 shot on goal edge. 

Louisville (4-1-1) stays home again for their next two...hosting Ball State in a Cardinals vs. Cardinals matchup Friday night and Belmont Sunday. Post-games quotes interviews below. 


LINK:  Post-game Coach KFD   KAREN FERGUSON DAYES

LINK:  Post-game Jill Vetere    JILL VETERE


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Louisville Field Hockey takes the "D" out vs. Indiana in 3-0 win -- MONDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

BYRNE'S TWO GOALS LEAD UOFL TO WIN

Justine Sowry has gotten a reputation over the last couple of years as a excellent defensive coach in the NCAA Field Hockey world. That recognition was backed up yesterday at Trager Stadium...the Cards winning the "Battle of the Border" 3-0 over the Hoosiers. Louisville has won the last four times they've met 

The "D" belonged to Louisville against "Iniana" Sunday....Louisville giving up just six shots and only three shots on goal for the Hoosier in 70 minutes of play. Ayeisha "Mac" McFerrran also gets the first official shutout in goal in what looks to be a long and successful career ahead between the pipes for the Northern Ireland native.

The Cards, who are now 20-1 at Trager Stadium over the past 21 games, got on the board when senior Victoria Stratton took the ball into the circle and found sophomore Stephanie Byrne waiting to knock it past the defense for the score. 

Byrne would get her second goal of the game and third of the season on a penalty corner at the 19 minute mark of play...following up on Chili Garcia's shot and tipping it past the Hoosiers to make it 2-0.

The Cards would get their third and final score of the contest with about five minutes left in first half action when freshman Tess Hannah corralled a missed (Whole) Lotta Kahlert shot and put it past IU goalie Noelle Rother.


The teams battled through a scoreless second half...Louisville outshooting IU 7-2 and getting a 5-2 edge on corners. The Cardinal defense held strong to push Louisville to a 2-0 regular season record. 

Field Hockey heads to the left coast next where they'll face California on 9/4 and UC Davis on 9/6. Ironically, IU will be out there also...playing Stanford and California...all part of the five-day, six team contingent that will gather for games at the UC Davis Sports Complex. Also coming in are St. Louis and Miami (OH). 

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CC Podcast - Field Hockey vs Cal -- Sunday Cardinal Couple

We're going to try a new thing here on Cardinal Couple...a podcast format of update.  This won't take the place of the daily articles posted, but hopefully will be relatively quick and short audio updates.  You should see an embedded audio player just above this message if you are reading it on the website that you can use to play this podcast directly in your browser.

Don't expect a podcast entry for every UofL Women's sporting event, of course as these take a bit more work to put together and post, but I hope to be able to do them fairly frequently and bring a new dimension of reporting on our favorite topics here at Cardinal Couple.

This is an update about the Field Hockey game this afternoon against the Cal Bears.

Let me know in the comments what you think of this sort of update.  Thanks!

jmca

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As mentioned in the podcast the Stick Cards roared back after a disappointing loss in field hockey on Friday to shut out the Cal squad 4-0.  Louisville got the only goal they would actually need with nine minutes gone in the game when Mallory Mason connected on a penalty corner.

She's done that more times this season than I've been to Arby's and the 1-0 lead held to halftime.

The Cards burst out with a rush in the second half...getting a Alyssa Voelmle score in the first two minutes and Lotta Kahlert connecting less than a minute later.

The Bears never did come out of hibernation ( maybe they needed Ditka) and freshman Stephanie Byrne got her third goal of the year with about a minute to go to make it 4-0.

The 11-4 Cards will head to Athens, OH on Tuesday for a match against Ohio University.

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Women's golf got a big boost from the "Katie's" yesterday and climbed to the top of the ladder in the

Mercedes-Benz Tournament in Knoxville. (We wonder if they use Mercedes Benz's instead of golf carts in this one).

Katie Petrino and Katie Mitchell both fired one under par 71's yesterday and Louisville lead the tournament by 4 strokes over Kent State. Emily Haas continued her good golf with a 72, Molly Spanik finished with a 73 and Laura Restrepo carded a 75.

The tournament ends today with a final 18 holes. Go get 'em Chip and Putt Cards!

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