Soccer to Host SMU on Parents' Weekend
Sept. 18, 2002
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The Baylor soccer team welcomes in SMU Friday evening, kicking off Parents' Weekend on the Baylor campus. After playing three games last week, the Bears have only one game on the slate this week. The Bears, rolling along with a 6-1 record, have tied their best start under head coach Nick Cowell. The 1999 squad, Cowell's first team at Baylor, also started the season 6-1 and finished the year 14-7-1 overall. In addition to Friday night's game, other Parents' Weekend athletic events include the Baylor-Tulsa football game Saturday at 6 p.m., volleyball against Kansas State Saturday at 2 p.m., and the Baylor Invitational (cross country) Saturday morning. Though ranked ninth nationally by SoccerBuzz in its preseason poll, SMU comes to Waco with just a 3-2 record on the season and having fallen out of the top 25. Since beating Duquesne 5-1 in the season opener, the Mustangs have played four straight games decided by one point each. SMU lost 2-1 in double overtime to then-No. 5 Texas A&M in College Station and fell to Oklahoma in Norman 1-0 on Sunday. The Mustangs' other two wins have come against Colorado College (3-2, OT) and Arizona State (2-1, OT).
SMU leads the all-time series with Baylor, 4-1, including a 4-0 SMU victory in the first round of the 1999 NCAA Tournament. The Bears' lone win came in 1998, a 3-1 win in Dallas over the then-No. 13 Mustangs. The two teams last met in Baylor's 2000 season opener, a 2-1 SMU win in Dallas.
Last Time Out Junior goalkeeper Monica Housden, a transfer from North Texas, shut out Northern Arizona Sunday afternoon in her first appearance as a Bear, leading Baylor to a 2-0 win at Lumberjack Stadium. The shutout was the third of the year for the Bears, matching the team's total all season a year ago. Northern Arizona managed only two shots on goal on the day as the Lumberjacks were shut out for the first time this year. Sophomore Kristin Ruef and senior Whitney Barrett provided all the scoring for Baylor with a pair of first-half goals. A single Arizona State goal midway through the second half proved to be the only score of the night as the Sun Devils beat Baylor Friday evening, 1-0, to snap the Bears' five-game win streak to start the year. Bear goalie Tanya Sena nearly matched the Sun Devils' shutout, allowing only the one goal while recording a season-high six saves. The Bears missed two chances to tie the game late. With just under four minutes to go, Emily Fukuchi's shot carried past ASU goalie Kelly Fitzgerald only to rebound off the post. With less than a minute remaining, Fukuchi had an open shot in front of the net but put the ball over the bar. Emily Fukuchi came off the bench to score two goals as Baylor pounded McNeese State, 6-0, Wednesday night at Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field. Fukuchi recorded her second career multi-goal game, scoring the Bears' first and last goals of the night. In between, Tiffany Boshers, Kristin Ruef, Bethany Vick and Ginny Rosario-Tull each scored a goal. Kate Hensman notched two assists, while Vick, Rosario-Tull, April Robertson and Sam Savage each earned one.
Crawley Charging Baylor Attack On the road at Rice (9/6), Crawley scored her first goal of the year, tying the game at 1-1 with just over 11 minutes to go; the Bears went on to win in overtime. Two days later against Southwest Texas, she repeated the feat, scoring with 8:13 left to again tie the game and force overtime. In the second overtime period, Crawley assisted on the game-winning goal. Her efforts for the week (9/2-9/8) earned her Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week and Soccer America National Team of the Week honors.
Fukuchi Forging Ahead Fukuchi finished second on the team in goals and points as a freshman in 2000, and through five games this season, is tied for the team lead in goals and ranks second in points.
Ruef Roughing Up Opponents Ruef leads the Bears in points and is tied for the team lead in goals this season. She leads the Big 12 Conference in shots, having taken 27 shots (18 shots on goal) in the team's first seven games. To put that in perspective, Candace Reilly led the Bears in shots last season with 35 shots in 18 games.
Baylor Keepers Double Your Pleasure in Debuts Freshman Tanya Sena shut out Louisiana-Lafayette on opening day, making her the first Bear in school history to record a shutout in her first collegiate appearance -- and all while playing with a cast on her right hand, thanks to a broken thumb. Fellow freshman Morgan Pinter made her debut off the bench against McNeese State (9/11) and finished off a 6-0 shutout of the Cowboys. Pinter allowed no goals in the final 18:39. Junior transfer Monica Housden shut out Northern Arizona in her first appearance as a Bear (9/15), leading Baylor to a 2-0 win. Housden recorded two saves while playing the entire 90 minutes.
Bears Among Big 12 Statistical Leaders
Baylor individuals among the Big 12 leaders, through games of September 16:
Bears Share in Scoring The same thing can be found in the assist category; nine players have at least one assist, with no player having more than two. Ruef leads the team with seven points; four other Bears each have five or six points, and three more have four points apiece.
Working Their Way Up the Charts
Notable records:
Bears Add Goalie Housden to Stable In two seasons with the Mean Green, Housden appeared in 37 of team's 40 games. She leaves North Texas as the program's career leader in shutouts (12.5) and saves (202). A junior from Denton, Texas, Housden started 21 of her team's 22 games as a true freshman in 2000 and notched back-to-back shutouts against Centenary and Texas Tech in her first two collegiate games. Her eight shutouts as a rookie were a team single-season record. She also voted a team co-captain as a sophomore. Housden has also been selected to try out for the Mexico National Team World Cup Qualifiers in late October, which may cause her to miss some of the Bears' late season games.
Crawley Named Preseason All-Big 12 -- Again
Baylor Picked Seventh in Big 12 in Preseason Poll The Bears finished the 2001 season in seventh place in the Big 12 and lost in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament to then-No. 9 Nebraska.
Bears in the Pros Greathouse is one of three Baylor-related players to have participated in the WUSA's first two seasons. Courtney Saunders, a1998 all-American at Baylor, spent the inaugural season with the Philadelphia Charge, while former assistant coach Rebecca Hornbacher was a member of the Boston Breakers in 2001.
Pannell Retires Pannell worked her way through nine months of rehabilitation, but reinjured her shoulder late in the summer and had total reconstructive surgery in August. The procedure would have kept her out of action for at least six months before any return to action could have been considered.
Head Coach Nick Cowell In Cowell's first year at Baylor, the team finished 14-7-1 overall and placed fourth in the conference with a 6-3-1 mark. In 2000, the Bears again finshed fourth in the Big 12 and compiled an overall record of 10-6-3. The 2001 season was marred by injuries and saw the Bears finish 8-10 overall (4-6 Big 12, seventh in the league). Under Cowell, the team has made one NCAA appearance (1999) and barely missed out on another (2000). Prior to coming to Baylor, Cowell spent eight years as head coach at Trinity University in San Antonio. During that time, he led his team to seven straight conference titles, including 49-straight conference victories and six trips to the NCAA Division III Tournament. At Trinity, Cowell's success resulted in him being named the SCAC Coach of the Year five times. In 1992, he garnered Regional Coach of the Year honors. Prior to his work at Trinity, Cowell was at The College of Wooster where he had a 22-11-4 record in two seasons. He led the Lady Scots to the North Coast Athletic Conference title in 1990. Following that season he was named the NCAC and Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association Coach of the Year. Cowell began the 2002 season ranked 19th in career winning percentage and 25th in career wins among active coaches at four-year colleges, with a career record of 171-64-16 (.713).
Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field The stadium seats 3,000 fans, making it the largest soccer-only facility in the Big 12. Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field is is set in the plush backdrop of the Brazos River on University Parks Drive. The field is part of the Jim and Julie Turner Riverfront Athletic Park, which includes the Baylor Ballpark, Getterman Stadium and the new Baylor Tennis Center. All four venues share the parking lot with the Ferrell Special Events Center.
Cowell Adds Pair of Assistant Coaches In Petrie, Cowell is rejoined by one of his former stars. A 2000 graduate of Trinity, she played two seasons (1997-98) under Cowell at Trinity. During her career at Trinity, Petrie was the starting goalkeeper for the Tigers as they won two conference titles and made three straight NCAA D-III tournament appearances. She held opponents to a 0.24 goals against average in 1999 and compiled a career GAA of 0.36, setting both school and conference records. Petrie joins the Bears from the University of Akron, where she spent the past season as assistant women's soccer coach. She also spent the past year working with the Greater Akron Premier Club, where she coached the under-14 team and served as goalkeeper coach for the entire club. Stoneman, meanwhile, becomes the first volunteer assistant to work with the Bears under Cowell. Stoneman played four years of soccer at Oklahoma Christian before graduating in 1999. He participated in MLS tryouts in 1997 as he was invited to combines for the Dallas Burn and Kansas City Wizards, and spent three years playing in the United States International Soccer League with the Oklahoma City Slickers, Tulsa Roughnecks and Carolina Shamrocks. Stoneman spent the 2000-01 season as assistant women's soccer coach at East Central University in Ada, Okla., as the team advanced to the conference tournament for the first time in team history. He also has extensive experience with club and high school soccer. Petrie will work specifically with the goalkeepers in addition to assisting with recruiting and other day-to-day office activities, while Stoneman will assist with coaching goalkeepers as well as with video analysis and other training drills. The pair joins second-year assistant coach Rj. Anderson on the staff.
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