Sports > October 4, 2007

By LK Davey | Staff writer

The women’s soccer team had an exciting week last week with two home games, the first against Virginia Tech Sept. 27 and the second against the University of Virginia Sept. 30.

The two games marked the beginning of the ACC games for the Lady Deacons, and their play started their season off on the right foot with a 3-1 win against the Hokies and a 0-0 tie against the Cavaliers.

With the home win the Deacons improved their record to 6-3-2 and 1-0-1 in the ACC, while the Hokies stand at 4-3-1 and 0-1-0 in conference play.

Spotlight players include sophomore striker Allie Sadow, who netted two goals in the contest, marking her second and third goals of the season.

Her most exciting goal involved fellow sophomores Jill Hutchinson and Sarah Winslow in the 27th minute of the game.

Hutchinson found the ball in the far left corner and passed it in to Winslow who was waiting dead center at the 10-yard mark.

Winslow got a foot on it before Sadow fired the missile. Hutchinson netted her sixth goal of the season off a pass from Sadow in the 30th minute to put the Deacs up 2-0 going into halftime.

On the defensive end, sophomore Caitlin Farrell stopped the Hokies’ first run for the goal by knocking the ball out of bounds in the 21st minute. Wake regained possession on the Virginia Tech corner kick, which ended up in the hands of Wake goalkeeper Laura Morse. Morse had three saves that night, now standing at 2-2-0 for the season with five saves overall.

Wake’s big game was against UVA Sept. 30, however, as the No. 23 Deacons kept up with the No. 4 Cavaliers all night, with a score of 0-0 until overtime, where both teams scored, ending the game at 1-1. Goalies sophomore Laura Morse and freshmen Amanda Barasha were the spotlight players of the game.

After five saves and 100 minutes from goalkeeper Laura Morse, da Luz subbed in freshman Amanda Barasha to take advantage of her powerful long range kicks.

Within the first two minutes of the final OT, Barasha gained possession and sent the ball flying over 70 yards into Virginia territory.

“Laura did a great job,” da Luz said, “I just thought we could use Amanda as a weapon during the last 10 minutes. She can really hit a ball.”

On the final outcome of the day, da Luz said, “It was great game. Yeah, we would have liked a win, but the team’s performance today definitely bodes well for the future.”

The Deacons now have a total season record of 7-1-2 and an ACC record of 1-0-1.

The Lady Deacons will be traveling this weekend for two important ACC road games.

The team will play Maryland in College Park Oct. 5 and then travel to Massacheusets to play Boston College Oct. 7.