Soccer Falls 1-0 In Overtime Against Missouri

Friday, October 9

Columbia, Mo.

5:30 p.m.

Colorado

7-7-0, 4-2-0Big 12

Missouri

7-4-3, 2-0-2Big 12

OT 2

Colorado

Missouri

Photo by: Tony Harman

October 09, 2009 | Soccer

Box Score

By: Allie Musso, Assistant SID

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The University of Colorado women's soccer team suffered its second-straight conference loss Friday night after a 1-0 overtime battle with the Missouri Tigers.
Missouri remains unbeaten in conference play with a 2-0-2 record and a 7-4-3 mark overall, while CU falls to 7-6-0 overall and 4-2 in the Big 12.

"Missouri is very difficult to play at home, especially on a Friday night," said head coach Bill Hempen. "This is the second year in a row that we had to do that. We certainly faced off better tonight than a year ago, but they played hard; sometimes a little too hard, but if the referee doesn't think that, then play on, I'm all for it.

"We played harder tonight from start to finish than we have in a long time and they had to because Missouri forced us to. We played as well as we could under the circumstances. From the physical standpoint, our young players grew up tonight and if I thought that they ever weren't ready for this sort of play, they just got ready. Sometimes that's the best way to do it. When you have injuries, you have players that our forced into the spotlight and they either do it or they don't (rise to the occasion). They did it tonight."

In the 35th minute of the game, it was freshman Shaye Marshall who nearly got the Buffs on the board. Marshall took a pass from her sister Nikki Marshall through a pair of Tiger defenders. Shaye Marshall took one touch and fired a hard shot towards the goalkeeper, but the shot was saved to preserve the scoreless tie.

The Tigers would respond with their own scoring opportunity three minutes later on a Kari Adam shot, but senior goalkeeper Kara Linder quickly reacted and punched the ball out of bounds, forcing a Missouri corner kick which they could not convert on.

The Tigers outshot Colorado 11 to four on its home turf in the first half and CU's Linder tallied four saves to Missouri's two.

Missouri kept up the offensive pressure in the second half and Alysha Bonnick found herself open in front of the goal in the 56th minute of the match. Bonnick fired a hard shot to Linder's left side and the senior goalkeeper was able to scoop the ball up and keep the Tigers out of the net.

It would take Missouri just 36 seconds of overtime to finish the game in physical fashion as Michelle Collins took down a Colorado defender in the box and dished the ball out to Alysha Bonnick. Bonnick one-timed it into the back of the Colorado net for the win, handing Colorado its second loss of the conference season.

"There was a lot going on when they scored the goal and evidently it was all fair play," added Hempen. "Missouri scored and we didn't."

Missouri finished the game outshooting the Buffs 23 to six, and had nine shots on goal to CU's two.

Colorado will now travel to Lawrence, Kan. and look to claim its first true road win when the Buffaloes face the Jayhawks on Sunday, Oct. 11 at noon.