Box Score
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. (Oct. 4, 2013) The FIU women's soccer team (3-8-0, 1-2-0) dropped the first game of their weekend road trip, 3-0, to the Colorado College Tigers in a Conference USA match up at Stewart Field on Friday evening.
The Panthers tamed the Tigers in the first half, surrendering just one goal in the 24th minute to Katie Uyenishi for her first goal of the season.
Colorado added to its lead in the 53rd minute, courtesy of Jessie Ayers fifth goal of the season. Ayers took a shot from 18 yards out, which beat redshirt junior
Paula Zuluaga to the right post and went in. The Tigers would go on to scor
e one more time when Sarah Schweiss also notched her fifth goal of the season from a free kick from 25 yards out, which solidified the 3-0 victory.
Zuluaga finished with eight saves, which is three shots short of her career-best (11). Sophomore
Jazmin Jones played a full 90 minutes for the third time this season for FIU.
The Panthers next travel to LA Tech where they will play the Lady Techsters at 2 p.m. on Sunday.
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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 bachelor¹s, master¹s and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida¹s 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. FIU has awarded 200,000 degrees and enrolls 50,000 students in two campuses and three centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell and the Miami Beach Urban Studios. FIU is a member of Conference USA and has 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu
