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Last-minute goal lifts women's soccer past Houston

Postby PonyPride » Sat Sep 08, 2001 3:42 am

Forward Sarah Harvey leads Ponies past Lady Cougars
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Senior forward Sarah Harvey scored a goal and set up the game-winner in the game's final minute to lead the SMU women's soccer team to a 2-1 win over Houston Friday night at SMU's Westcott Field.

Harvey scored the game's first goal in the 79th minute when a crossing pass from Jennifer Prigmore slipped past a UH defender to Harvey, who drew the Cougar goalkeeper out toward her and slipped a shot underneath her to give SMU a 1-0.

But the Cougars got the equalizer in the game's final minute when forward Lindsay Beiriger slid a shot past freshman SMU netminder Erin McLeod.

But rather than packing it in and going into overtime, the Mustangs struck back. Sophomore midfielder Kim Harvey juked past one UH midfielder and cranked a long pass over the Cougar defense to her sister into the right corner. Sarah corralled the pass, beat one defender and drove toward the net and knocked the ball out of bounds off a Houston defender. She then fired a corner kick in front of the net to freshman defender Sasha Andrews, who headed the ball into the goal for the game-winner with just 14 seconds remaining.

"That was an amazing finish, wasn't it?" SMU head coach George Van Linder said after the game. "I've never been a part of a game with an ending like that."

The Mustangs (3-0-0) were without forward Tara Comfort -- the Western Athletic Conference's preseason Player of the Year -- who pulled a hamstring in the team's season-opening win over Miami of Ohio last week. The Ponies outshot the Coogs, 16-5, but needed all 90 minutes to pull off the win.

"We need to pick up our offense," Van Linder said. "I'd like to see the defense tighten up, too, but we need to get the offense going more, to the point where we don't feel like we need to shut people out to win. But we'll get a big lift when Tara comes back."

SMU plays Oklahoma at 1 p.m. Sunday at Westcott Field.
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