TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – For the second time in as many weeks, the California women's soccer team came back from down a pair of goals to tie a top-10 program. The Golden Bears scored two goals in the final 16 minutes to draw with Florida State on Sunday at the Seminoles Soccer Complex in Tallahassee, Florida.
"To come back from two goals down against a team of this quality shows the resiliency of our group," Cal head coach
Neil McGuire said. "They are fearless in their approach to the game and its just really cool to watch."
Exactly 10 days ago Cal (8-2-8, 4-1-4) scored two goals in the final six minutes to tie No. 1 Virginia with senior
Lumi Kostmayer scoring the first and fifth-year
Mia Fontana assisting on the equalizer. Today, Kostmayer once again cut the lead in half with a late goal and Fontana provided the equalizer in the final minutes to earn Cal a point in the conference standings.
The Bears sit alone in third place in the ACC with 16 points behind the top two teams in the country, No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Stanford. Below them is a four-way tie for third place between No. 3 Virginia, NC State, Louisville, and the Seminoles.
After a scoreless first half FSU came out of the locker rooms firing and collected two goals in a five-minute span, both of which were scored by Wrianna Hudson.
In the 74th minute, Kostmayer charged a loose ball inside in the penalty area and boxed out an FSU defender to gain possession. On the first touch she fired in her team-leading seventh goal of the season into the upper right-hand corner of the net to cut the lead in half.
Ten minutes later in the 84th, senior goalkeeper
Teagan Wy fired a free kick into the Florida State 18-yard box that ricocheted off several players before settling right at the penalty kick mark. Fontana stepped up and buried her third goal of the season to draw even with the host Seminoles.
In a match where the Bears were outshot 20-5, Wy managed to record six saves and survived a 16-shot second half by the Seminoles holding them scoreless for the final 35 minutes.
Cal has this week off before hosting No. 2 Stanford at Edwards Stadium on Thursday, Oct. 30 at 3 p.m.
