Sunday, USU played the Pacific Tigers with uncharacteristic results from previous games. After playing two games, winning both last week, the Aggies have gone 3-0 on the road. On Thursday, they overtook Utah Valley and then scored nine goals but let Pacific score three of their own.
With these recent victories, totaling seven wins and no losses, the Aggies have made the top 10 in the United Soccer Coaches Top 25, now ranking at number 9. This history-breaking event comes as they have never received a vote in this poll before this season. The only time that USU ranked in a national poll was the men’s basketball team, which ranked ninth in the AP Poll.
USU Moves Up The Poll With Another Win
In the last game, USU conceded three goals, which is huge since, over the entire season, they have let only a single goal get by all of them. This is only the second time Manny Marins let the other team score three goals, and all of them were in the first half. Pacific scored three as well, but the Aggies were more than equal as they scored nine goals. If they were able to score just one more goal, they would have been able to match their program record of 10, which they did in 2007.
On this amazing and near-record-breaking day for the Aggies, they had 28 different players on the field. Eight players scored, and seven other players were awarded assists. USU Outside Back Kylie Olsen, who is a four-year starter said,
“Our mentality is just to go and go, and we have a lot of depth, so we want to use the subs that we have, and I think that’s what our goal was today was to … get experience (for our younger players). And it is really good to have games like that.”
In true Aggie style, they scored early, taking only three minutes and 43 seconds to take the lead. Bizzy Arevalo helped send the ball over to Kylie Olsen, who took a great shot, leading to Kaylie Chambers, who could head in a deflected ball about six yards away from the goal. The Tigers were not going to take that goal sitting down, and ten minutes later when Laila Saravia gave it all she had run after a pass from Allie Jones, shooting it off the far post, tying the game.
What Aggies Do When Scored On
If there is one thing that the Aggies get frustrated with, it is having another team score on them. In the next 11 minutes, the Aggies scored four goals. The first of these steps started with Schwarz pressing through, taking a shot only to have it deflected, and Olsen was there for the rebound without wasting any time making the shot.
Six minutes later, Butters used her powerful left foot and passed the ball to Summer Diamond, who took a single touch to the outside bar for the score. The next came when a Pacific player lost the ball to Rine Yonaha, who centered it for Chambers, who only had to beat one other player, whom she did to score another one for the Aggies.
USU Doesn’t Look Back
The Aggies were now up five in the 29th minute of play. It was freshman Austin Miller’s next chance to capitalize when she shot hard, only to have it deflected when Kate Christian rebounded it to tap it into the back post. With 12 minutes of the first half to go, the Tigers scored their second, and just seconds before the half was over, they got their third and last one.
After the half, the Aggies never gave the Tigers an inch and took it to them for the rest of the game. USU attempted 18 more shots as the Tigers only had a single attempt of their own in the last half. Scoring USU’s sixth goal was Olsen sending a cross to Ellie Hendrix, who sent on in for the score. The next one came twelve minutes later when Bizzy assisted Solena Sellers for a straight shot and score. Alex Day sent the last one high into the air for Mia Mullenmeister, giving it to Alex, who danced around to take a shot into the open net.
There doesn’t seem to be anything that the USU Aggie ladies can’t beat as they prepare to play Weber State in Ogden on the 15th. However, letting three goals go by, they take the win with ease and keep moving up, making history with each game.
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