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Soccer drops NCAA third round match, 4-0, to Florida State
11.23.2007 | Soccer
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Seventh-ranked Texas Soccer fell to third-seeded Florida State, 4-0, in the third round of the 2007 NCAA Soccer Championship in front of a near-capacity crowd of 1,091 at the Seminole Soccer Complex on Friday, Nov. 23.
The Longhorns (16-4-5) ended the season with the second highest win total in program history. UT won its second consecutive Big 12 Tournament Championship, and advanced to the third round for the second consecutive season and for the third time in program history.
No. 14 Florida State (16-5-3) moves on to the NCAA quarterfinals to play the winner of Friday's third round match between Stanford and Connecticut.
The Texas offense was out-shot, 29-5, including an 11-2 margin in shots on goal. The Longhorns took one corner kick compared to six by FSU. Both teams were whistled for three fouls each.
Florida State used goals by junior forward Mami Yamaguchi, the second-highest goal scorer in the nation, and the freshmen trio of Marisa Kazbour, Rachel Lim and Sanna Talonen.
Pfenninger (Sugar Land, Texas) tallied seven saves and allowed four goals in her career for the first time in 69 matches. She ends the 2007 campaign tying her single-season school record of 16 goalkeeper wins from 2006. Pfenninger completes her third year on the Forty Acres with the most career wins all-time (41).
Florida State freshman goalkeeper Erin McNulty registered two saves and played all 90 minutes in goal. She blanked her eighth opponent of the season behind the Seminoles' 12th shutout of the year.
POSTGAME NOTES
The last time Texas allowed four goals in a match was on Oct. 8, 2004. The Longhorns lost 4-3 against Nebraska in Lincoln... Texas advanced to the third round for the third time in four seasons and for the second consecutive season... The four losses ties the lowest season total in program history, equaling the 2006 total... The last time Texas lost by four goals came on Nov. 2, 2001 when No. 14 Texas A&M defeated then-ranked No. 7 Texas, 6-0, in Austin.
POSTGAME QUOTES
HEAD COACH Chris Petrucelli
Opening statement: We got outplayed by a very good team tonight and I don't know if we were ever really in the game. They did a tremendous job of keeping the ball. We chased them. They created chances and being down one-nil at halftime seemed like it was four or five. Certainly the early goal in the second half really sort of ended the game. Congratulations to Florida State, they were great.
On being satisfied with advancing to the third round: Well I don't think we are satisfied with getting to this level. The goal of our program is to win the whole thing, it's what you do at Texas -- you win. We're disappointed that we're not going on, but I talked to them afterwards and told them, `they (Florida State) were good.' There's not much we can do about that. We can control how we played. While maybe we didn't play our best I think it was a lot more about how they (Florida State) played.
On the game strategy coming into the match: I expected that they would be able to keep that ball, and they were. I thought we could get a little more going forward is what I thought would happen. There were a few times in the first half where we got something going on counters, and I thought that's what was going to be it. I was hoping we would get more of those opportunities but we certainly didn't. So the kind of game we were looking for was a game when they had the ball a lot and we would be kicking the ball off and countering it. The first half was a little like that, but certainly not the second half.
JUNIOR DEFENDER Kasey Moore
On the change in dynamic after the second goal of the match: That second goal I think just killed the mood of the team. We came out ready to be fired up and ready to go at them, and a minute and half in, they score a goal. I have to give them all the credit in the world, I think that's the most dynamic front line we've played against all season long. I could see them going on and winning a national championship; they were amazing.
