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Tech Soccer Held Off By Kansas 3-2
October 12, 2001 | Women's Soccer
Oct. 12, 2001
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech women's soccer team fell to the Kansas Jayhawks, 3-2 on a very windy Friday night at R.P. Fuller Stadium.
Rachel Gilfillan's second goal of the game in the 41st minute of play proved to be the game winner as Kansas (8-3, 4-1) avoided a late rally from the Red Raiders.
For Tech (3-10, 0-5) Rachel Mavris' third goal of the season, off a penalty kick, cut the Kansas lead to one as the Red Raiders put pressure on a Jayhawk team that seemed to try to run out the clock up 3-1 in the second half.
The Red Raiders dominated the flow of the game for the first 35 minutes of play when, on a controversial play in the 24th minute Brooke Jones played a ball through to Gilfillan who then beat Tech keeper Brittney Peese for the game's first goal. Undiscouraged Texas Tech answered two minutes later as Melanie Brosnahan scored her team-leading sixth goal on the season. The goal came off a corner kick played in by Mavris, Brosnahan controlled the ball in front of the Jayhawk goal and buried the ball into the back of the net.
Kansas would answer with two goals in a span of three minutes as Nikki Wahle found lacey Woolf streaking down the pitch, Woolf's initial shot was stopped by a sprawling Peese, who was unable to coral the ball and Woolf scored into an empty net.
With the loss Tech drops its 11 consecutive Big 12 Conference game. The Red Raiders will be in action again Sunday morning at R.P. Fuller Stadium for a 10 a.m. kick off with the Missouri Tigers.
