Women’s Soccer Ends Home Winning Streak; Falls 3-0 in Conference Matchup vs. Cincinnati

Sunday, October 1

Temple Sports Complex

1:00 PM

Temple University

5-5-1

Cincinnati

9-1-2

CIN

Temple

Photo by: Nguyen Ho

Women’s Soccer Ends Home Winning Streak; Falls 3-0 in Conference Matchup vs. Cincinnati

10.1.17 | Women's Soccer

Box Score

PHILADELPHIA- a physical matchup throughout, Temple (5-5-1, 1-1) ends up falling 3-0 to an elite Cincinnati team (9-1-2, 2-0-1). The Owls' impressive home win streak of four wins comes to an end and was the most consecutive wins at home by an Owls team since the 2015 squad team that broke Temple's win record in a single season with 12.

Keys to the Match
>It was a defensive battle to start as neither team attempted a shot within the first 20 minutes.
>In the 25th minute, Cincinnati's Kiki Lowell scored on a redirected assist from Cassie Wheldon to put the Bearcats up 1-0.
>In the beginning of the second half in the 54th minute, Jordan Cotleur scores on a through ball from Sophie Gorman to increase the Bearcats' lead to 2-0.
>Cincinnati's Lexie Kolano scored the final goal of the match in the 75th minute off an assist from Jaycie Brown to seal the 3-0 win.

Match Notes
>Temple's four game winning streak was the most consecutive home wins by a team since 2015.
>Sophomore goalkeeper Morgan Basileo had six saves on the day which ties her season-high.
>The Bearcats led the match in shots 15-11.

Quotable
I was very pleased and thought we played a good match. That's a team that's going to probably be one of the top two teams in our conference." Said Temple head coach Seamus O'Connor. "It came down to moments. We had a lot of quality chances against them that we just couldn't capitalize on and they got theirs when it counted."

Up Next
> Temple will travel for their first conference road match of the season next Thursday Oct.5, at Memphis with a 8:00 p.m. EST/ 7:00 p.m. CST start time.