Mountaineers Hand Virginia Their First Loss
Sunday, September 21 2008 by Tim
A trip to West Virginia to face the #15 Mountaineers didn’t turn out very well as the #9 Virginia Women’s Soccer team fell 3-0 earlier today.
West Virginia scored early – their first goal was in the second minute of play – and then added to the score late – goals in the 72nd and 85th minutes put the Mountaineers ahead by the final 3-0 margin.
The only real bright spot in this game was a 6-3 corner kick advantage. Otherwise, West Virginia controlled the stat line. They held a 7-4 shot advantage, a 3-2 save advantage and had only 5 fouls to Virginia’s 13.
This certainly wasn’t what the lady Cavaliers wanted to do before they head into the rough ACC conference schedule. They begin ACC play on Thursday at #9 Florida State and then head to Miami on Sunday.
From everything I can tell, this game appears to be a fluke as Virginia had only given up 3 goals through the 8 previous games combined. Granted, the competition was different as this was Virginia’s first ranked opponent and the game was on the road. Nonetheless, I expect the Cavaliers to bounce back during the trip to the Sunshine State.
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Here’s how the Hoos did this past week: Thursday, September 18th Field Hockey: #8 Virginia defeated Virginia Commonwealth 3-0. Friday, September 19th Women’s Tennis: Virginia posted a 2-1 doubles record and a 4-2 singles record on the first day of the
Hopefully this was just a case of the ladies looking ahead to the ACC schedule. Or maybe just a bad game. Hey, it happens.
Let's hope they get back on track on Thursday.