TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Arizona women’s soccer team fell to second-ranked Stanford 4-1 Thursday night at Murphey Field at Mulcahy Stadium.
Fans in attendance were asked to wear pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, and a record 1,021 attended the match.
Arizona (5-7-3) scored its only goal of the night in the 74th minute, with the tally coming courtesy of sophomore forward Candice Osei-Agyemang. Osei-Agyemang was one on one with Stanford goalkeeper Aly Gleason and placed the ball in the upper left corner of the net for her second goal of the season.
Junior Jazmin Ponce led the Wildcats in shot attempts with five, and teammate Ana-Maria Montoya added two.
Stanford (12-1-1) outshot the Wildcats 16-2 and had four players register a goal. In the 67th minute, Alina Garciamendez registered her fifth goal of the season with a header off a corner kick from teammate Lo’eau LaBonta to put the Cardinal up 4-0. Junior Courtney Verloo led Stanford in shot attempts with four.
“We’re always going to have tough teams in our conference,” Arizona coach Lisa Oyen said. “We have to put a 90-minute effort into every game, and I don’t think we did that today. There were some nerves playing against a team with Stanford on their jersey and being ranked nationally.
"We have played very good teams these last few weeks, so now we’re just focusing on the last five.”
In net, Arizona goalkeeper Gabby Kaufman recorded six saves. Stanford goalkeeper Emily Oliver registered two saves in 67 minutes of play before Gleason come on late to earn two saves in the final 23 minutes of action.
