October 2, 2010
UFV Cascades Women's Soccer team shutout UBC Thunderbirds, 2-0, at Bateman Park
The University of the Fraser Valley Cascades women's soccer team defeated the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds, 2-0, to improve their CWUAA regular season record to 2-3-0 for 6-points. The match was played at Bateman Park, in Abbotsford, BC.
The University of the Fraser Valley Cascades women's soccer
team defeated the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds, 2-0,
to improve their CWUAA regular season record to 2-3-0 for
6-points. The match was played at Bateman Park, in
Abbotsford, BC.
The Cascades came out on fire and controlled the early part of
the match winning all the "loose balls" and staying to the game
plan laid out by UFV Head Coach Rob Giesbrecht, who earned his
first career CIS home victory at the helm of the
Cascades. "I am very proud of the team, they stayed with our
game plan and were brilliant especially in the first
half," said Giesbrecht.
The Cascades worked hard all afternoon at keeping UBC,
the CIS Number 7 ranked team, from any dangerous scoring
opportunities and kept pressure on the UBC defense the entire
first half. The Cascades were rewarded for their
play 19 minutes into the match as veteran forward Ellen Kuyer,
Surrey, BC slipped the ball under UBC's goalkeeper, Meghan
Best, North Vancouver, BC on an excellent set up by the Cascades
Samantha Slack, Surrey, BC. The Cascades, worked on getting
the "bugs" out of their offense all week, doubled their
lead five minutes later on a Carly Neeson, Maple Ridge, BC
goal. The rookie from Maple Ridge, BC won the ball away from
Thunderbird defenders and then beat Best to send the home team into
the intermission with a two-goal lead. It was Neeson's
first career CIS goal.
In the second half, the Thunderbirds started to control
more of the match and win the small battles in the middle
of the pitch, but the relentless effort on this day by UFV's total
team play led by veterans Megan Webster, fourth year Abbotsford
native, Lyndsay Munro, fifth year Maple Ridge defender
and goalkeeper Chantal Biagioni, Pitt Meadows, BC who earned
her second shutout of the CWUAA regular season, kept UBC off the
score sheet and offensively frustrated the entire
afternoon.
"I am so proud of my teammates, we worked hard all
afternoon, what a great result for our program, said Webster, the
Cascades Captain.
UFV goes right back to work Sunday, as they play their arch
rivals from down Highway 1, the Trinity Western University
Spartans, at Bateman Park, 12:00PM game time.
UBC 0 0 = 0
UFV 2 0 = 2
Scoring:
First Half:
19:00 UFV Kuyer (Slack)
24:00 UFV Neeson
Second Half:
No Scoring
No Scoring
Goalkeeping:
UBC Best (80 Minutes) Saves: 7/ Peric (10 Minutes)
Saves: 0
UFV Biagioni Shutout (2) Saves: 4
Corner
Kicks:
UBC: 2 / UFV 4
Shots on
Goal:
UBC: 8 / UFV 15
Players of the
Match:
UBC: Jordan Kitagawa, Tsawwassen, BC
UFV: Ellen Kuyer, Surrey, BC