Tampa, Fla. (October 15, 2006) ? The University of South Florida concluded its 2006 home schedule with a 1-0 loss to Cincinnati on Sunday, Oct. 15 at the USF Soccer Stadium.
The Bulls are now 6-8-1 overall and 3-6-0 in the BIG EAST conference while the Bearcats are 7-6-2 with a 3-4-1 conference record.
Prior to the final home game of the season, Coach T. Logan Fleck recognized the accomplishments of his five seniors: Jenna Ball, Michelle Buskey, Erin Dafeldecker, Casey Garrett and Toni Johnson.
The Bulls' ninth conference game of 2006 began with an early shot from team point-leader (22 points) Lindsay Brauer. The attempt from the top of the box was stopped by Bearcat keeper Andrea Kaminski, one of her two first-half saves.
In the 37th minute, Cincinnati's Becky Imhoff scored her fourth goal of the season off a Melissa Bigg assist. Bigg sent a ball from the top left of the 18-yard box, through a pack of USF defenders to Imhoff, who was six yards from Bulls goalkeeper Casey Garrett. Imhoff squeezed the ball past Garrett and into the top left corner of the net for the first and only tally of the game. Bigg earned her second career assist on the play.
At halftime, the Bearcats had outshot the Bulls 6-4 and led 4-1 in corner kicks.
In the second half, the Bulls stepped up their game, matching the Bearcats' six shots, but could not find the back of the net as Kaminski saved four attempts, including one each from Brauer, Paulina McIntosh, Melanie Sutherland and Michelle Buskey.
Brauer, McIntosh, Garrett, Jenna Ball and Jeannette Dyer each played all 90 minutes of the game.
Garrett registered her 60th save of the season and allowed the 48th goal of her three-year career at USF in her final game at the USF Soccer Stadium.
Thirty-three substitutions were made in the game, allowing 16 Bulls and 18 Bearcats to tally game-time minutes.
The Bulls conclude their regular-season schedule next weekend with two games in New York. USF travels to Jamaica, Queens, to play St. John's on Friday, Oct. 20 then will end the regular season at noon on Sunday, Oct. 22 in Syracuse.
