Oct. 22, 2010
Final Stats
TUCSON, Ariz. - With 40 seconds remaining in what would be the first overtime period, the Arizona women's soccer team scored the first and final goal of the Pac-10 Conference game on Friday night at Mulcahy Stadium. It was that 25th shot of the match that gave the Wildcats (5-8-2 overall, 1-3 in the Pac-10) the 1-0 victory over the Golden Bears (7-4-4, 2-3-0 in the Pac-10).
"Credit goes to Arizona tonight as they took full advantage of our less-than-inspired performance," Cal head coach Neil McGuire said.
After 90 complete minutes, the squads traded shots in the overtime period. Arizona had two, both of which went wide left. Katie Suits and Kaitlyn Fitzpatrick both had shots that UA keeper Ashley Jett saved, and one from Genessee Daughetee went wide left.
At 99:20, Shannon Heinzler took a direct shot on goal from outside the box for her first goal of the season and the first goal of the game. With the 1-0 decision, Arizona improves to 4-1-2 at home this season and earned its first conference win of 2010.
Cal still holds the all-time series lead by a considerable margin at 13-1-2 although this is the first-ever loss to the Wildcats.
Kaitlyn Fitzpatrick led the Bears with three shots with Emi Lawson, Katie Suits and Megan Jesolva all taking tow. Of the Wildcats, Ana Montoya took five. Jett made eight saves while Cal goalkeeper Lauren Hein stopped six in 99:20 minutes of play.
The Wildcats narrowly outshot the Bears at 13-12. Arizona also held the corner kick advantage, 6-3. A total of 27 fouls were called altogether.
Cal started things off with a corner kick by Megan Jesolva at 7:26. The first shot of the game came from the Arizona side with Ana Montoya shooting high in the 13th minute. Lauren Hein made back-to-back saves within less than a minute's span (21:52-22:36) with Alex Smith and Montoya each trying their foot on goal. The Bears took their first shot on goal at 41:43 with Emily Shibata forcing UA keeper Ashley Jett to make the save.
Arizona opened the second half with a shot 1:50 minutes into the second 45, but Hein aptly made the save. Shortly thereafter, freshman Emi Lawson returned the favor with Jett making the second save of the game on Cal's second shot of the game.
With overtime imminent, both squads fired off several final regulation efforts. In the 88th minute, the Wildcats earned a corner kick and followed it up with a shot from Heinzler, but that hit the crossbar. Another corner kick was followed by another shot, this one by Montoya and saved by Hein. With 32 seconds remaining in regular, Katie Suits headed a shot on goal but Jett made the save for the final play of the 90 minutes.
Next up, the Bears take on Arizona State on Sunday, Oct. 24 at noon at Sun Devil Soccer Stadium.
