Box Score TUCSON, Ariz. (Sept. 16, 2012) – The FIU women's soccer team fell to the Arizona State Sun Devils, 3-0, during the team's final game of the Loews Ventana Canyon Cats Classic in Tucson, Ariz., on Sunday afternoon.

Arizona State jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the 41st minute on a goal by Miah Mollay. The Sun Devils added a score in 58th minute when Devin Marshall found the back of the net for her sixth goal of the season. ASU scored the final goal of the contest in 67th minute when Holland Cook scored her second goal of the season on an assist from Marshall.

Redshirt junior goalkeeper Kaitlyn Savage was saddled with the loss, registering six saves in 90 minutes of action.

Junior Chelsea Leiva led all Panthers, offensively, with three shots (two on goal). The Royal Palm Beach, Fla., native put pressure on the Sun Devil defense early, striking a shot on net in the eighth minute, forcing a Sun Devil defender to get in the way of the shot as goalkeeper Chandler Morris was out of position.  Sophomore forward Ashleigh Shim nearly broke the scoreless tie in the 23rd minute with a shot on goal. However, Morris was in position to make the save. In the 78th minute, Leiva looked to get the Panthers on
the board, but her shot on net was again saved by Morris. 

The Sun Devils held a 16-6 edge in total shots as ASU struck the ball on frame nine times to FIU's three.

The loss drops the Panthers to 3-4-1 on the year, while Arizona State improves to 4-4-1.

FIU will begin Sun Belt Conference play, traveling to Mobile, Ala., on Friday, Sept. 21, to take on South Alabama (8:00 p.m. ET) before heading to Troy, Ala., to square off against the Troy Trojans (2:00 p.m. ET) on Sunday, Sept. 23.

About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in seven different venues on FIU's campuses
(Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including U.S. Century Bank Arena and Alfonso Field at FIU Stadium.

About FIU: Florida International University is recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. Its colleges and schools offer more than 180 bachelors, masters and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU is worlds ahead in its local and global engagement, finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission and enrolls 50,000 students in two campuses and three centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell and the Miami Beach Urban Studios. More than 140,000 alumni live and work in South Florida. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.