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2004 Record: 2-5-0 MIAC, 5-8-1 Overall
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| Last Week's Results: Carleton 1, Saint Mary's 0 (2 OTs) / Details St. Thomas 4, Saint Mary's 2 / Details |
| Coming Up: Tues., Oct. 19: St. Olaf at Saint Mary's, 4 p.m. Sat., Oct. 23: St. Benedict at Saint Mary's, 1 p.m. |
| This and That: Amy Cory (Crystal Lake, Ill.) scored SMU's lone goal last week, pushing her team-leading totals to 12 goals and 24 points. … Cory's 12 goals — half of SMU's goals scored this season — are the most scored by an SMU player since Joanna Fitzhugh scored 13 and finished with 30 points in 1999. … Three of SMU's five wins have come at home. … Only three times in its first 14 games has SMU given up more than two goals. Nine times, the Cardinals have allowed one or fewer goals. … SMU is now 0-1-1 in overtime games this season. … Sixteen of the Cardinals' 24 goals have been scored in the first half, while 14 of their opponents' 24 goals have been scored in the second half. … SMU's games vs. St. Olaf (Tuesday) and St. Benedict (Saturday) are the Cardinals' final two home games of the season. |
WINONA, Minn. — Last season, St. Thomas’ women’s soccer team netted three goals in a nine-minute span to eventually declare a 4-0 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference victory over Saint Mary’s University at Ochrymowycz Field.
This time around, the venue was different, but the outcome was eerily the same, as St. Thomas scored three goals in a seven-minute span — one to end the first half and two more to start the second — in handing the Cardinals a 4-2 setback on the Tommies' home turf.
"It was such an even game," said SMU coach Tony Guinn, whose team lost a pair of nailbiters last week, including a 1-0, double-overtime setback to Carleton last Tuesday. "We scored first (on a St. Thomas own goal), then took the lead again (2-1), but St. Thomas got a good goal late in the half which really took the wind out of our sails.
"Instead of going into the locker room leading, we were tied, and that shifted the momentum over to St. Thomas."
St. Thomas put the Cardinals on the scoreboard first, accidentally scoring a goal in its own net 15 minutes into the first half, as a St. Thomas player defected an Amy Cory (Crystal Lake, Ill.) into the UST net. But the Tommies bounced right back, scoring a goal on the proper net seven minutes later.
Cory got her team-leading 12th goal of the season minutes later, but UST again bounced back, as Mary Dienhart scored the first of her two goals with less than five minutes remaining in the half to pull the Tommies even.
"We had the wind in the first half and we wanted to take advantage of that," explained Guinn, noting that the game was played in bitter cold and a gusting wind. "If we could have gotten into halftime ahead, I think we would have been able to hold them off in the second half and maybe escape with a win. But that late goal really hurt."
St. Thomas took the lead for good just two minutes into the second half, and Dienhart scored her second of the game a minute later as the Tommies evened their overall record at 7-7.
"It was a tough week — both losses were games we really were in position to win, but came up just short," said Guinn, whose team returns home for games against St. Olaf (Tuesday) and St. Benedict (Saturday) this week. "It will be nice to get back on our home field. We play well at home (three of SMU's five wins have come at home) and hopefully we will be able to get things back on the right track."