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Vanderbilt and #15 Tennessee Play to 2-2 Tie 10/25/2003 Nashville, Tenn. – The Vanderbilt Commodore women’s soccer team played to a 2-2 double overtime tie against the 15th ranked Tennessee Lady Vols Friday in the Vanderbilt Soccer Complex. The tie ends Tennessee’s four-match win streak and gives the Lady Vols a record of 11-4-1, 5-1-1 in SEC action. Vanderbilt is now 6-6-3, 2-4-2 in league action. Vanderbilt holds a 7-3-1 lead in the series, incuding a 3-1-1 mark in Nashville. The Lady Vols scored first when junior Sue Flamini took a free kick after a Vanderbilt foul and angled it around the Vanderbilt defense from 18-yards out at the 38:26 mark. The Commodores tied the game with just nine seconds remaining in the half when freshman Susan McAleavy scored her first collegiate goal. Senior Michelle Bruntlett dribbled the ball down the right side and passed to freshman Lea Lafield who set McAleavy up for the goal for the 1-1 tie. The goal ended UT goalkeeper Vanessa Phillips-Bosshart’s scoreless streak at 231:35. Vanderbilt took the lead at the 59:34 mark when junior Molly Wilson hit a header off senior Jen Talavera’s cross for Wilson’s third goal of the season. The assist was Talavera’s first point of the season. UT tied the game at two at the 63:30 mark when Lyndsey Patterson hit a shot in from 6-yards in traffic past VU goalkeeper Esther Thompson. Tennessee outshot Vanderbilt 4-0 in the first overtime period. Rhian Wilkinson’s shot was wide right to open the period and then a header by Kristen Doukakis off a UT corner kick was saved by Thompson. Thompson saved another shot by Patterson at the 95:34 mark and Flamini’s shot at the 97:07 mark went wide. In the final overtime, Vanderbilt outshot Tennessee 3-0. McAleavy had a shot saved and Wilson’s shot went wide right at the 106:16 mark. Senior Michelle Bruntlett angled a shot right to left from about 20-yards past Phillips-Bosshart, but a Lady Vol defender raced back to save the shot before it crossed the goal line for a team save. Vanderbilt totaled 14 shots, seven on goal, while UT numbered 15 shots, nine on goal. Thompson numbered seven saves for the Commodores, while Phillips-Bosshart totaled four saves. |
