Women's soccer and California play to a tie

October 24, 2010

<a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/w-soccer/stats/2010-2011/asu10-15.h… Stats</a> <separator></separator>The Arizona State women's soccer remained at .500 in Pac-10 Conference play following a 1-1 tie with California on Sunday.<separator></separator>Arizona State (8-4-2, 2-2-1 Pac-10) held slight edges over California (7-4-5, 2-3-1 Pac-10) in shots (14-11) and corner kicks (8-7) in what turned out to be a very physical match as the two squads combined for 27 fouls (Cal 15, ASU 12).<separator></separator>"I think a tie is a fair result in the end," ASU head coach <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/w-soccer/mtt/boyd_kevin00.html">Kev… Boyd</a> said following the game. "The stats were pretty close. I thought we played a little flat on the day. We were about 85 percent in the first half and about 75 percent after that. For some reason we did not fully engage today."<separator></separator>Neither team was able to generate any offense in the first half, a trend which carried over for both teams from their respective contests on Friday night when the Sun Devils fell to Stanford 3-0 and the Golden Bears were defeated by Arizona 1-0 in overtime.<separator></separator>California would be the first team to break its scoring drought when in the 49th minute junior midfielder Katrin Omarsdottir took a pass from freshman defender Emi Lawson and scored after firing a low, opposite-side shot from 15 yards to put Cal up 1-0.<separator></separator>ASU, which had a goal nullified in the first half because of a foul, would tie the game less than six minutes later when junior defender <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/w-soccer/mtt/shane_kari00.html">Kari Shane's</a> free kick was served perfectly into the box where freshman forward <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/w-soccer/mtt/marshall_devin00.html"… Marshall's</a> header connected to tie the game at 1-1.<separator></separator>"We have been talking about how dangerous [Kari Shane] is and we should be rewarding her service and getting some goals out of it," Boyd said. "Devin got in there and knocked it in. It was a great goal by Devin and a great service by Kari."<separator></separator>Neither team would be able to get the go-ahead goal in the final 35 minutes of regulation and the two 10-minute overtime periods.<separator></separator>The best chances each team had came in the first overtime. First, Sun Devil senior forward <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/w-soccer/mtt/shoquist_jill00.html">… Shoquist</a> had a shot on a header, but Cal goalkeeper Emily Kruger made the save. Then, later in the first overtime, Cal senior Megan Jesolva nearly got off a shot in front of the Sun Devil goal when the ball came her way following chaotic situation around the ASU net. However, Sun Devil freshman defender <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/w-soccer/mtt/graybeal_josie00.html"… Graybeal</a> came over at the last second to break up the play.<separator></separator>After making 13 saves on Friday night, ASU sophomore goalkeeper <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/w-soccer/mtt/gillmore_alyssa00.html… Gillmore</a> added five more on Sunday while Kruger added eight for the Golden Bears.<separator></separator>Shoquist and Marshall tied for the ASU team lead with three shots each.<separator></separator>ASU returns to action next week when it goes on the road to face co-Pac-10 leader Oregon State on Friday (7 p.m. PT) and Oregon on Sunday (noon PT).<separator></separator>

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