University of Washington
Arizona
Four Second Half Goals Lift Huskies Over Arizona
October 08, 2010 | Women's Soccer
Oct. 8, 2010
SEATTLE - After being down 1-0 at halftime, the UW women's soccer team rallied to score four goals in the second half vs. Arizona to win the Pac-10 opener at Husky Soccer Stadium 4-1 Friday night.
UW (8-3-1, 1-0-0) took 16 shots in the game, nine on goal, compared to 13 total shots and two on goal for the Wildcats who fall to 4-6-2 overall and 0-1-0 in Pac-10 play.
Arizona struck first when Jazmin Ponce scored her third goal of the season in the 32nd minute on an assist by Ariel Boulicault. Ponce broke through the defenders and went one-on-one with Husky goalkeeper Jorde LaFontaine-Kussmann and struck the ball to the left side of the net.
Senior Kellye Joswick (Placentia, Calif.) tied the game with her third goal of the season in the 53rd minute on an assist by junior Kate Deines (Issaquah, Wash.). Joswick tapped the ball in after a jumble in the box.
The game-winning goal came just five minutes later in the 58th minute as freshman Lindsay Elston (Sammamish, Wash.) scored her third career goal. Junior Kelli Stewart (Mukilteo, Wash.) crossed the ball to Elston after beating the keeper on the left. Elston then took the shot on the left side which deflected off of a Wildcat defender and went in the goal.
Freshman Allie Beahan (Sammamish, Wash.) couldn't have scripted her first collegiate goal any better. In the 70th minute, Beahan took a long pass from freshman Lindsey Bos (Snohomish, Wash.) on the left side. Beahan made two great moves around the Arizona defenders to score on the right side of the goal.
"I just thought we had a great response after their early goal and some really good performances tonight," said head coach Lesle Gallimore. "Allie Beahan's goal was just special. She's worked really hard. I said, on the bench earlier, before she scored the goal, she had a couple of great runs and was good on the ball and I could tell she was feeling it. I said she deserves a goal or something because she trained really well this week and I was super happy for her that she got the goal that she did."
Just when everyone thought the game was over, sophomore Jessie Young (Surrey, B.C.) took a pass from freshman Hillary Zevenbergen (Woodway, Wash.) and scored on the left side in the 90th minute for the fourth and final goal. It's the second career goal for Young.
"We always tell our players to play until the whistle blows and that's what they did and I'm not going to make any apologies about it," Gallimore said. "That's what we train to do and that's confidence. Some of these kids are out there not getting much playing time, Jesse Young being one of them. To earn more minutes that's exactly what I'd ask her to do over again. It was just a really gutty response from our team to come out in the second half and put four goals up."
LaFontaine-Kussmann improves to 5-3-1 in goal making one save. Ashley Jett was the goalkeeper of record for Arizona; she is now 4-4-2. Washington won the corner kicks 4-2.
