VIDEO: No. 24 women's soccer shuts out San Francisco

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From SMUMustangs.com:

No. 24 SMU Defeats San Francisco, 1-0, For Fourth Straight Win

DALLAS (SMU) – Jasmine Vilgrain scored her second goal of the season to lift No. 24 SMU to a 1-0 win against San Francisco at the Washburne Soccer and Track Stadium Thursday night.

With a free kick near midfield in the 18th minutes, Brooke Golik delivered the ball to Elisabeth Tse about 30 yards from the goal on the right sideline. The defender served it into the box where Vilgrain was able to slip free of her defender and knock the ball into the right-side netting for the score.

For the next 72 minutes, it appeared inevitable that San Francisco would find the equalizer. However, the Mustang defense was up to the task with a little help from the goal posts.

Tatum Sutherland came on in the second half to replace starting goalkeeper Samantha Estrada, who was pulled due to injury. Sutherland made five saves, including one on a shot from 12 yards away that seemed destined to find the back of the net.

"They should have scored. They clearly should have scored," head coach Chris Petrucelli said of the sequence. "I think they almost kicked the ball out of the goal as opposed to in the goal."

The ball rebounded right back out for another shot by the Dons that hit the left post of an empty net. A third San Francisco shot went off the same post but bounced safely out for a goal kick. The sequence in the 82nd minute accounted for three of San Francisco's nine second-half shots. On the other end, SMU managed just one shot in the last 45 minutes.

"They came hard at us in the second half, and we just couldn't keep the ball," Petrucelli explained after the match. He stated that his team was a little fatigued after playing three matches in one week leading up to the contest against the Dons, but credited the opponents for the tough win for SMU.

"They just don't give up a lot of goals. They haven't given up goals all year, and they're not going to give up goals all year. They make it [deleted] you," Petrucelli stated. "We created three or four scoring chances and just could not convert them, except for the one."

With its fourth straight win and third straight clean sheet, SMU improved to 5-1-0 overall. San Francisco dropped to 3-3-1 on the season, despite outscoring opponents 8-5 through seven matches. The Mustangs have 10 goals this season, while allowing just four with four clean sheets.

On the goal, Tse tallied her second assist of the season, while Golik earned her first point of the year.

SMU continues the homestand against Oklahoma Sunday at 7 p.m. at Washburne Stadium.